Feb 11th, 2011
This Week in Sex: The British Edition
Facebook is more popular for prostitutes than Craigslist
According to a study on how technology is changing sex work, the world's oldest profession is digitizing just as fast as everything else. The study found that over eighty-three percent of prostitutes have Facebook pages and that more of them solicit sex work through the social-networking site than via Craigslist. Another interesting stat: most prostitutes have smart phones, over seventy-percent of which are BlackBerrys. The business-y associations of the phone apparently make men feel safer.
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On the last point, every secondary school in the UK has a school nurse or health visitor that you can ask for free contraception and has done for several years, certainly since I left school 6 years ago. I believe the only case in which they won't give out contraception is if a girl under 16 needs a morning after pill, then they have to inform the parents first.
Uh yeah and Skins as you may know is a British show...so you can be doubly mad at the UK...who would have thought, teenagers take drugs and have sex!
When I was nearly 16 my mother brought up birth control as a good way of dealing with my horrific periods, but we both know that she was really just trying to protect me and my soon-to-be sexually active self. I don't think that her allowing me to take oral contraceptives encouraged me to have sex, but it did make me feel more comfortable talking to her.
This was a year ago, and I'm still a virgin.
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