[WillowTheWhisp]

This may not be a popular idea either but what about the parents' responsibility in all this? In my day it wasn't down to the school to teach children about sex, safe or otherwise, it was up to the parents. Unfortunately this isn't an ideal world and parents don't seem to be able to talk to their children about such things, or maybe they themselves are ignorant.

I can remember the hooha when sex education was introduced into schools and parental ractions such as "I don't want my child knowing about things like that!" Well excuse me Mrs but if you aren't going to tell them and you don't want the school to do it they will end up learning it all from friends and experimentation and smutty jokes which takes away all the aspect of love and committed relationships.

I've heard the theory that "In utopia if everyone only had one sexual partner there would be no sexually transmitted diseases........" oh yeah? Tell that to a child born with HIV. Tell that to someone who was treated by an HIV+ dentist who didn't wwear gloves. Tell that to someone who picked up rubbish from the garden amngst which was a filthy syringe...........

I think what I'm trying to say is that ignoring things and hoping they will go away is never the answer.

Have you seen the poster in the doctors which shows how quickly chlamydia can spread from just one person?

Yesterday my daughter told me that there's a "sexy bus" at Moorhead and they are giving out free condoms.