Editorial- Of Interest to NYC10023

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20sun2.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=abstinence&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20sun2.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=abstinence&st=cse

Good piece.

otherwise known as the Palin Family Birth Control Plan.

Just say NO!
OK, just this once

We're so backward in this country. Some schools in the UK now advise masturbation to their students as a way to maintain balance, happiness, mental hygiene. Also, they jail idiots who text while driving and then kill someone.

I certainly hope that schools and community organizations provide better information to young people about protecting yourself if you engage in sexual activity than they did when I was in school. I don't feel that talking to students about how to protect yourself puts the idea of having sex into the mind of a teenager. Of course, there is health information on the Internet which certainly wasn't available years ago, but what does it hurt to provide some basic information about ways to protect yourself. Of course, parents should be the person who talk to their child, but what if they don't? The UK (and other European nations) are light years ahead of us with many social issues.

UK has a high teenage pg rate. I have some theories as to how to provide sex ed for girls - not for consumption on a public forum, but I'm sure we'll chat sometime over coffee, lobster.

I apologize, nyc10023. I didn't mean to put you on the spot with respect to this article and I'll happily defer discussion to another more appropriate time.

Thought this fit here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBJQDpWD32E

Might get a better reaction here than I did from the teenager I sent it to. Oh well.