Contents of safe-sex kits outrage parents

[alp227]

SWANZEY – AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region has been banned from the Monadnock School District after parents and school board members objected to the distribution of "safe sex kits" to students following a presentation in December.

School board member Bruce Barlow said AIDS Services overstepped its bounds by offering flavored lubricant and candy in the kits, when the school administration believed only condoms were being handed out.

"When the decision was made to include strawberry-flavored lube in that bag, all common sense left the room," said Barlow. "You can't hand something like that to a 14-year-old boy and expect him to respond to it as an adult would."

Full story: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Contents+of+safe-sex+kits+outrage+parents&articleId=c9c412a3-93ed-4a47-b0a6-9a849bdcc516

Found this from http://holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com/2011/01/parents-angry-after-discovering-safe.html

The blogger, Alvin McEwen, comments:

The 14-year-old would probably pull out the lubricant and laugh at it while with his friends. Granted, there were a lot of mistakes here. The school administration and the AIDS services group should have checked with each other as to what was going into the kits and there should have been some kind of opt-out policy.

But to flip out over the fact that the safe sex kits contained candy and lubricant seems to be a bit too much for me. The implication seems to be that the candy is "enticing" students to take the kits, but so what if it did? It certainly doesn't mean that the candy will be enticing students to have sex.

[MineralMan]

1. Artificial strawberry flavoring makes me gag.

Now, real strawberry jelly is another thing altogether, but that's a different story, not suitable for DU.

[Warpy]

2. No shit. The lecture I got from my mother on the mechanics of birth control

made me decide the whole business was just too much trouble and I became a late bloomer. Strawberry lube wouldn't have changed my mind and neither would candy.

14 year old boys do not react the way adult men do. They react with horse laughs covering embarrassment even if they're sexually active. They'll eat the lube and the candy. If the school and their partners are very lucky, they'll use the condoms for their intended purpose or keep them in their wallets until the packaging crumbles and they're old enough to buy new ones.

[MineralMan]

3. 14-year-old boys are mere larvae of human beings.

Somewhere down the road, they go through a metamorphosis and become real human beings. In the meantime, they may do almost anything.

What a 14-year-old boy might do with a condom is not a subject I care to discuss.

[aquart]

4. Water balloons from a 3rd floor window, for instance.

[MineralMan]

5. Dude!

[damntexdem]

7. Well, candy IS dandy but liquor IS quicker.

;-)

[damntexdem]

6. Well, after all, kids shouldn't be having intimate relations with vaults.

;-)

[gratuitous]

8. No, the 14-year-old didn't react like the adult did

The 14-year-old was probably pretty blasé about it; alleged adult Bruce Barlow had a screaming hissy fit.

As I recall from when I was 14, evincing too much interest in sex or sexual subjects was a sure-fire way to become a target. And if there's a meaner bunch of conformists than 14-year-olds, I don't want to know about them.