Posted July 12, 200916 yr The NHS is telling pupils they have a 'right' to an enjoyable sex life in a leaflet being sent to schools. It encourages them to consider an 'orgasm a day' as a way reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke. And if they can't get sex, the leaflet says children should consider masturbation. The advice appears in guidance circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers. It says experts have for too long concentrated on the need for 'safe sex' and loving relationships - while ignoring the main reason people have sex, for enjoyment. But family groups condemned the guidance last night, saying it would encourage children to have underage sex and could lead to rising rates of sexually-transmitted diseases. Around 40,000 teenage girls fall pregnant every year in the UK - the highest level in western Europe. More than half end up in abortion. The leaflet has come to light just a week after it emerged that a £6million initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving. The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex. But a study in the British Medical Journal found girls on the scheme were 'significantly' more likely to fall pregnant than other girls. Now criticism is focused on the new leaflet, entitled Pleasure, which has been drawn up by Sheffield primary care trust. Under the heading 'an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away', it says: 'Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. 'What about sex or masturbation twice a week?' Author Steve Slack, director of the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health and NHS Sheffield, denied the document promoted underage sex. He said it could encourage young people to delay losing their virginity until they are sure they will enjoy the experience. Mr Slack added that as long as teenagers are fully informed about sex and are making decisions free of peer pressure and as part of a caring relationship, they have as much right as an adult to a good sex life. But Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College, Berkshire, who introduced classes in emotional wellbeing at the public school, said the approach was 'deplorable'. And Dr Trevor Stammers of the pressure group Family and Youth Concern said the leaflet would encourage children into risky behaviour, which could result in them catching sexually transmitted diseases. 'If you look at the people who come into my surgery, it's the orgasm that got them there - not kept them away,' he said. 'It is unbelievable that this is being sent to schools. 'I'd like to know what scientific evidence there is to back this up. There are an awful lot of overpaid and underoccupied health promotion officers around who are obsessed with sex. 'This leaflet encourages the idea that there is nothing more to sex than pleasure, and inciting underage sex is doing nothing less than encouraging child abuse. 'If the NHS wants to promote a healthy heart, as it says it does in this leaflet, it should put the money into reducing smoking and alcohol - which cause far more cardiac damage than encouraging people to have sex. 'The strapline I'd have is - sex is an adult activity. Underage sex is as dangerous as underage drink and usually leads to sexual ill-health.' Two years ago a charity said masturbation techniques should be taught to children in sex education classes. The Family Planning Association suggested that pupils should be shown explicit videos of masturbation at school - but family values campaigners said the proposal was nothing more than the promotion of pornography. Source: Mail on Sunday Any comments on this leaflet from NHS in Sheffield?
July 12, 200916 yr Whilst on the whole this sounds more than faintly ridiculous, the suggestion that the NHS should spend more money suggesting people cut down smoking and alcohol - jesus christ, who does not know by now that they are hugely influencing factors in heart disease? Anyone who drinks and smokes then has heart problems pretty much has them coming IMO. It's like walking into oncoming traffic then being surprised when you're hit by a car. Personally I'd rather have 20 orgasms a day than 20 cigarettes.
July 12, 200916 yr An 'orgasm a day' sounds good to me. If the leaflet is badly written then so be it, still the essence of the slogan seems a good one.
July 13, 200916 yr The advice appears in guidance circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers. It says experts have for too long concentrated on the need for 'safe sex' and loving relationships - while ignoring the main reason people have sex, for enjoyment. This bothers me tremendously. Safe sex should never, ever be excluded or de-emphasized from any sex education campaign, regardless of its underlying assumptions about the motivation for sex (pleasure vs. love). Safe sex is pleasurable sex, safe sex is loving sex, safe is is the ONLY sex that should ever be encouraged or taught to children. Have people been lulled into a false sense of invincibility regarding STDs? HIV/AIDS continues to ravage the globe, killing millions in every country and in every region on earth and yet there are still some ignorant enough to suggest sex education can be "too concentrated" on safe sex? The kiddies can f*** like rabbits for all I care, just USE A CONDOM EVERY TIME.
July 13, 200916 yr That article is one of the most ridiculous and irresponsible things I have ever read There is already too many chavs in this country popping out feral brats and this will massively increase the bloody total They should not be encouraging kids to be shagging etc as the massive increase in STD's and chav pregnancies and abortions will lead to far more social problems If this clown really is serious in what he says then give them f***ing rampant rabbits on prescription :rolleyes:
July 13, 200916 yr Safe sex should never, ever be excluded or de-emphasized from any sex education campaign, regardless of its underlying assumptions about the motivation for sex (pleasure vs. love). Safe sex is pleasurable sex, safe sex is loving sex, safe is is the ONLY sex that should ever be encouraged or taught to children. Totally agree.... Yeah, there may indeed be health benefits in having orgasms, but the way they're going about things here is just a little bit stupid... Teenagers hardly need much of an encouragement to shag anyway, but this will just be a red rag to a bull... If it's simply a case of the function of the orgasm and the endorphins it releases which has the health benefits, then you can surely get that through masturbation... I would have no issues if they were issuing a leaflet encouraging or emphasizing masturbation, I mean, you dont get anyone pregnant or catch an STI by having a w@nk do you...? :rolleyes:
July 27, 200915 yr Teens should "consider" masturbation over real sex is the key word. Fact is most teenagers are on hormonal highs most of the time and that they act impulsively all the time. It's adolescence. Making a campaign like "an orgasm a day" - giving them the sense that you can go wild sexually and nobody will look down on you, is only going to build an even larger rabbit-esque acting in the youth. And being the youth they'd most likely misunderstand it or take advantage of campaigns like this to have a reason to be promiscuous. Teenagers, being as close as they are to adulthood, aren't on the same maturity let alone puberty levels as fully grown and stable adults so encouraging sexual pleasure, which is usually a very private matter, out in the open, positively, could go completely the wrong way that the organisers want it to go. But it's great to see a new approach, as apposed to the annoyingly predictable "wear a condom campaigns", it all lies with the parents imo and how they bring their kids up in the end of the day - campaigns and strangers telling you whats right and wrong like this most likely will be forgotten within in an hour, that's if they're even listened to. .
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