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In a recent education progam, the National Health Service of Britain promotes ‘an orgasm a day for school pupils’. The pamphlets, called ‘Pleasure’ are aimed at teenagers, telling them they have every right to have a sex life.
The author of the pamphlet is the Director of the Center for HIV and Sexual Health at the UK NHS. “As long as teen are informed about sex and sexually transmitted diseases there isn’t any logical reason to avoid a good sex life,” he says.
In some third world countries the cervical cancer is far higher than in the EU, where sex is started early in a child’s life. Cervical cancer in twenty year olds is strongly believed to be related to early sexual experience.
The ‘Children Of God’ saga of the 1980’s and 1990’s is where thousands of children lost their innocence, in the sex crazed cult that said even babies could have sex. It was a time when thousands of children were scarred by over-zealous adults. Scars that will never heal.
Now we have an official government department, of a so called civilized nation, openly advocating an education program that endorses an ‘orgasm a day’ for school children. The pamphlet asks the question: ‘why promote healthy eating and exercise and not the maintenance and upkeep of one’s sexual organs?’
Thousands of women across the world have never experienced an orgasm. Who will be the teachers for these children? Consenting adults?
As for intercourse being good for cardiovascular health, so are a lot of other social activities. Are health experts advocating five portions of fruit and veg a day, 30 minutes physical activity three times a week, plus masturbation at least a couple of times a week, or does that roll onto intercourse? Do you equate half an hour in a gym, with thirty seconds teenage-fumbling under the blankets?
Great Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. Is Britain on a population explosion campaign, after many years of ‘stiff upper lip’ and all that stuff, as China wears the disastrous result of its one-child program. Is Britain aiming to fill the lack of Chinese brides, instead of them being stolen across the neighbouring borders?
Maybe they will advocate putting condom machines in all schools next? After all didn’t the Pope say, “Condoms cause AIDS”? Or was that “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away”?
Why can’t the authorities leave the personal development of children to the parents, or is that a privilege to be removed, just as the right to spank a child was made illegal. No one agrees with abuse of any kind, physical or sexual, but please leave the parents some rights.
Isn’t it time the government took their noses out of private business, or are we becoming little more than State run societies? What is the difference between religious cult leaders advocating sex for children and the instigators of the National Health Service of Britain’s education campaign?
Not only are the roles of ‘married couples’ being blurred, with the continuing argument over same sex marriages, the traditional role of breadwinner and caregiver has also undergone a dramatic change. Gone are the days when the father-figure was a remote, ‘gone to work’ person whom the children barely had time to relate to.
Three major factors causing this evolution are:
Females are finding out what it is to have to take the major responsibility for the finances of the family, while the males are experiencing the full and often overwhelming responsibility of having to be the 24×7 care provider. More and more men find themselves staying at home and doing nappy duty, while their wives rush off to the office.
Even in same sex relationships, there still appears to be a strong orientation to male and female roles. It is becoming more and more vital in any relationship, that both partners are capable of taking on the other partner’s role at a moment’s notice. For both roles to succeed, they need to be in a constant flux of negotiation.
Who the breadwinner is still depends largely on:
Eighty percent of all layoffs in the recession have been male, as male dominated industries get hit the hardest. Yet, for either partner, trying to keep the balance between being both a caregiver and a provider, creates stress. Perhaps circumstances are now spreading the stress a little more, as more and more couples move to sharing the positions.
While the initial caregiver is the mother, that can change as quickly as 6 weeks old, if the mother is forced to return to work, either by choice, or in order to keep her job. Either way, the changing roles have to be of benefit to the children, who get to see more of their father, than was customary a couple of generations ago. No longer is it seen as wrong for young boys to play with dolls, or young girls to play with trucks.
The celebration of Mother’s day (caregiver) and Father’s day (provider) almost needs to undergo a change also. Maybe they should now be called Caregiver and Provider Days, in order to keep up with the evolving changes.
