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Even suburbia is getting into the act. When I arrived home for Thanksgiving, I asked my sister what was new at her school. "We put condoms on wooden penises in English class today," she informed me. I learned that my alma mater, Roslyn High School, located on Long Island's North Shore, has become the first school district outside New York City to distribute condoms in addition to thorough condom education. What an honor...
...turns out that NBC and News 12 Long Island had run the story. Newsday did a cover piece called "Condom Handout." The principal heralded "a new era of condom availability." All in all, it was a big sensation topped by a press conference and a tour of the school nurse's office where the fish bowl of condoms is to sit. Everyone was pleased that they were saving the world from AIDS. But in the process, administrators missed the bigger picture of what's wrong with sex today...
...condom education session itself proved to be as sterile as a "Leave It To Beaver" special. Peer educators (meaning high school kids) training their classmates handed out an innocuous looking ditto: "How to Use a Latex Condom Properly." The sixth of 12 steps reads, "Place condom on erect penis prior to any contact." Step 7: "Roll condom down to base of penis." Step 9: "After ejaculation hold condom at base of penis and withdraw slowly before erection is lost." Gotta love that class instruction--reading, writing and wrist action...
...such "training sessions" in high schools or on this campus are doing nothing less than initiating their peers into a realm of sex which, as presented, can be nothing less than abusive. According to such groups, unhinged sexual passion is more than hedonistic satisfaction--so long as a condom is worn...
...urging abstinence as a policy to reduce teenage pregnancy. It will not do, of course. Teenagers will no more abstain from sex than will the frisking neighborhood dogs, and it is fatuous, punitive, Neanderthal to expect them to; the best that adult authority can do is to distribute condoms to the beasts and hope they will pause long enough to slip one on before their urgencies of crotch propel them into the hedge. If they do not take the precaution, well, then, the fallback: a morning's visit to the abortionist. Melancholy, perhaps...