Bangkok Schools Lose Condom Vending Machines

[Nisa]

In an isolated rural South Carolina community, a comprehensive school and community campaign made condoms available through the school nurse. Teachers, administrators and community leaders were given training in sexuality education; sex education was integrated into all grades in the schools; peer counselors were trained; the school nurse counseled students, provided male students with condoms and took female students to a family planning clinic; and local media, churches and other community organizations highlighted special events and reinforced the message of avoiding unintended pregnancy.

After the program was implemented, the pregnancy rate for 14-17-year-olds declined significantly for several years. After parts of the program ended (e.g., the school nurse was prevented from providing condoms and some teachers left the school), pregnancy rates returned to preprogram levels.

[agord]

deputy city clerk Pheeraphong Saichua seems like a bright guy Good to see homeless people are having safe sex.

[agord]

deputy city clerk Pheeraphong Saichua seems like a bright guy Good to see homeless people are having safe sex.

[agord]

deputy city clerk Pheeraphong Saichua seems like a bright guy Good to see homeless people are having safe sex.

[HereIAm]

In an isolated rural South Carolina community, a comprehensive school and community campaign made condoms available through the school nurse. Teachers, administrators and community leaders were given training in sexuality education; sex education was integrated into all grades in the schools; peer counselors were trained; the school nurse counseled students, provided male students with condoms and took female students to a family planning clinic; and local media, churches and other community organizations highlighted special events and reinforced the message of avoiding unintended pregnancy.

After the program was implemented, the pregnancy rate for 14-17-year-olds declined significantly for several years. After parts of the program ended (e.g., the school nurse was prevented from providing condoms and some teachers left the school), pregnancy rates returned to preprogram levels.

This would be relevant if tests had been conducted in other regions around the world and yielded data that would enable a comparative study. Otherwise I don't see how one test in an isolated rural Carolina community is relevant to the rest of America even, let alone the world.

[Nisa]

In an isolated rural South Carolina community, a comprehensive school and community campaign made condoms available through the school nurse. Teachers, administrators and community leaders were given training in sexuality education; sex education was integrated into all grades in the schools; peer counselors were trained; the school nurse counseled students, provided male students with condoms and took female students to a family planning clinic; and local media, churches and other community organizations highlighted special events and reinforced the message of avoiding unintended pregnancy.

After the program was implemented, the pregnancy rate for 14-17-year-olds declined significantly for several years. After parts of the program ended (e.g., the school nurse was prevented from providing condoms and some teachers left the school), pregnancy rates returned to preprogram levels.

This would be relevant if tests had been conducted in other regions around the world and yielded data that would enable a comparative study. Otherwise I don't see how one test in an isolated rural Carolina community is relevant to the rest of America even, let alone the world.

You are right but that was all I could find but one might think that the benefits are obvious when you promote safe sex and make condoms more available to teens.

[Daewoo]

Slightly different stance - relevant to the 'ever heard of 7/11' comments...

When do you first talk to your kids about sex... In some areas that might mean 10 years old... when you have that talk, might the child not think you are condoning the activity???

Provide acurate pamphlets, and condom vending machines... the kids will do it anyway, but without 'adults' involvement, maybe they will continue to know it isn't really acceptable...

I had mate in Australia whose parents let girls 'stay over' from when he was 16... and bought him condoms... not really happy to do that myself...

Another mates parents wouldn't allow it, so of course the next option was the back seat of the car... a gun man came to the door and abducted his girlfreind... held her hostage for 10 days of the most horrible treatment... maybe his parents contributed to this in some way...

Just thinking out loud - flame away...

Cheers,

Daewoo

[HereIAm]

Slightly different stance - relevant to the 'ever heard of 7/11' comments...

When do you first talk to your kids about sex... In some areas that might mean 10 years old... when you have that talk, might the child not think you are condoning the activity???

Provide acurate pamphlets, and condom vending machines... the kids will do it anyway, but without 'adults' involvement, maybe they will continue to know it isn't really acceptable...

I had mate in Australia whose parents let girls 'stay over' from when he was 16... and bought him condoms... not really happy to do that myself...

Another mates parents wouldn't allow it, so of course the next option was the back seat of the car... a gun man came to the door and abducted his girlfreind... held her hostage for 10 days of the most horrible treatment... maybe his parents contributed to this in some way...

Just thinking out loud - flame away...

Cheers,

Daewoo

Have been thinking about that first thing you mentioned : namely when do you actually begin to talk to your kid about sex and the implied sanction the kid sees in your apparently liberal approach. What we adults -- brought up in a certain way with certain scruples and morals -- are going through in the present times is a challenge to those same morals brought by a sea change in technology. This technology has made it so so so easy for anyone -- that includes kids of any age -- to access the most seductive, most explicit pictures or texts or other visual or audial representations of sex anytime they please. Because of the convergence of technologies such as mobile phones with internet and cameras, these sexual materials often reach the purview of kids even if they never sought them in the first place. Such as through SMS or MMS clips circulated by friends and so on. Then you have facebook and its allied avenues.

Therefore the exposure to sex which kids of this generation have is far far more intense than what kids of earlier generations had. The earlier morals and precepts were geared accordingly. Keeping this evolution in technology and the resultant intensification of exposure, I often veer round to the view that our morals and principles and scruples and precepts -- whatever -- need to be geared for modern times. Going forward, this would mean complete removal of all taboos from our minds.

Edited February 25, 2011 by HereIAm