Feb 11th, 2011
This Week in Sex: The British Edition
Controversy over The Joy of Teen Sex
A British TV show, The Joy of Teen Sex, has, shockingly, come under some criticism. Early episodes focused on a twenty-year-old boy's difficulties with anal sex, and a seventeen-year-old girl's desires to improve her techniques. Weirdly, this is the third time in about as many weeks that the British have come off looking more healthy, honest, and open when it comes to sex than we are. And I find that a little hard to take. Fellow citizens, stop whining about Skins. A gauntlet has been cast. A sexy teenage gauntlet.
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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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