Farewell to smear tests....

[Royston]

Great news for women, it's refreshing to have such a positive news story to wake up to in the morning.

 

Article on cervical cancer vaccine can be found here...

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2495029.stm

 

I believe 5 Merck and Glaxo will be the major players in it's distribution.

[YT2095]

I read the same story myself, although there are concerns now about Teenagers feeling it gives them the all clear for having sex without needed precautions.

 

not withstanding that, I think it`s a great breakthough!

[Royston]

I read the same story myself, although there are concerns now about Teenagers feeling it gives them the all clear for having sex without needed precautions.

 

If that's the case then there's definitely a few issues to address with regards to sex education.

[YT2095]

and then some!

 

I actualy caught this news on teletext this morming, the fears are in my opinion unfounded (kids will do what they want to do ANYWAY), I expect it was more than likely some Hyper-Conservative right winger making another fuss over nothing just the same as the far left do. non the less, it Was presented as a concern.

[Royston]

(kids will do what they want to do ANYWAY)

 

Certainly won't argue with that, unfotunately the same can be said for adults.

[calbiterol]

If only the health classes in such nations as the US would actually teach valuable information... And/or accept the fact that kids will do what they want (just like you said, YT), whether or not they think themselves as kids. Then they could stop focusing on teaching abstinence, abstinence, and ONLY abstinence, and start teaching safe sex and educating youth about how to prevent things like AIDS and syphallis...

[AzurePhoenix]

Yeah, basically they gave us a few drawings of internal anatomy, followed by gruesome std images, and told us "never, ever have sex or you will catch these horrible things, suffer a long time, and die alone."

[Rakdos]

Yeah, basically they gave us a few drawings of internal anatomy, followed by gruesome std images, and told us "never, ever have sex or you will catch these horrible things, suffer a long time, and die alone.[/i']"

 

 

That just about covers the U.S. Sex Ed program everywhere.

[Royston]

The UK sex ed concentrated more on the 'organs' and only touched on STD's. Aids wasn't so media swamped back then, and was just mentioned when the video went on to 'safe sex'.

 

All I remember was a lot of sniggering with a large arrow pointing to the testes. It was all rather clinical.

 

The new video that's being circulated is based around a party with 'young' teenagers. It centres around a couple who 'cop off' to the bathroom...I don't think there's any actual sex scenes (that would be very wrong) but it concentrates more on your 'first time', and what to expect. I guess the dangers and the biology stem from the scenario.

 

The video was covered on a local news story, so I'm not completely sure of the entire content, but I think it's a better approach, and had good feed back from those pesky kids.