Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Abstinence education... well, sort of...

For some reason I don't think the "abstinence education only" Bush administration will go along with the Brits on this one...

Oral sex lessons to cut rates of teenage pregnancy
Encouraging schoolchildren to experiment with oral sex could prove the most effective way of curbing teenage pregnancy rates, a government study has found.

Pupils under 16 who were taught to consider other forms of 'intimacy' such as oral sex were significantly less likely to engage in full intercourse, it was revealed.

I've gotta say promoting blow jobs to middle school kids instead of sex is a bit weird, but at least it's proactive. We all know that simply telling kids not to have sex and ending the conversation there doesn't work. But as we've seen over and over, Bush and his ideologues have this problem with facing reality...