British Start 'Orgasm A Day' Campaign
The U.K.'s National Health Service urges students to have an orgasm twice a week.
We're huge proponents of pleasuring ourselves on a regular basis. When we don't our body just feels...what's the word... unhealthy.
Well, today we read that the U.K.'s National Health Service thinks we're on to something. In fact, the NHS is going so far as handing out pamphlets to school children touting "An Orgasm A Day Keeps The Doctor Away." The pamphlet asks the question: why promote healthy eating and exercise and not the maintenance and upkeep of one's sexual organs? Read: Masturbation May Cut Cancer Risk
It's an excellent question, really. Why not strive for five servings of fruits/vegetables, some cardio and an earth-shattering orgasm to end it off? The NHS formally suggests an orgasm twice a week, which really isn't too unrealistic. While this could absolutely be a pro-masturbation campaign, the NHS then adds that sex is great cardiovascular exercise.
We're not sure what tricks high school-aged boys have up their sleeves today, but we'd hardly file our adolescent sexual fumblings into the same category as 25 minutes on the treadmill. But then again, far be it for us to say. Read: Orgasm For An Hour (Yes, We're Serious)
Regardless, it will come as no shock to you that parents and school administrators are red-faced and disgusted by this campaign. Great Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in all of Western Europe and they think this practically begs kids to have unbridled, casual sex. Some are going so far as saying this is another form of "child abuse."
Now, to be fair, we're not entirely sure how much higher our sexual partner count would be had we strived for extra cardio in the form of intercourse at 15. However, we're pretty sure we'd still know we ought to use a condom. And we're pretty sure all those health videos about fresh-faced youngsters testing positive for H.I.V. would still haunt us (as they do today). We're guessing Great Britain has done their fair share of abstinence and safe sex education, and we're just guessing it hasn't worked.
We aren't saying this Orgasm A Day campaign is going to be a sweeping success. However, if it strips away some of the unnecessary taboo associated with sex, then it's wonderful. Teenagers are going to have even more sex if it's treated as something glamorously naughty, rather than just a check on a list of health requirements.
Discussion
I do agree with the idea of stripping away the taboos surrounding sex. Not necessarily promoting it as a great work out (which never works as a means of getting my SO in bed), but as a way of getting people to have a healthier attitude about it. We can agree that, for a lot of people, when we're told not to do something we REALLY wanna find out why its wrong, and that can lead to all sorts of issues. I'm definitely not saying lets endorse it and start getting the message out to kids in elementary or anything like that, but maybe at the highschool level, although I know even then thats a little late for a lot of kids today.
But I know that concerned parents would shoot that down as well. I guess its just one more thing that needs to be taught at home...at school we can learn about condoms and all the fun things that we contract without protection, and at home we get to learn whatever views it is on sex that our parents deem suitable for us.
having a campign for orgamsim a day would make EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SO MUCH HAPPIER!!!
Pushing sex onto teens seems to be a bit much considering they should be taught about all of the risks involved first. Pushing masturbation on teens just doesn't seem necessary, at least for guys, but definitely making everyone aware that it is a health benefit is a plus because it can rid the guilt and teach girls to get in touch with their self-pleasuring side earlier on.
Actually, I think the leaflet goes too far. If it just promoted masturbation for your health, it would be one thing. But sex isn't necessarily good for your health. There are health benefits, and there are risks. Using a condom reduce your risk, but so does having fewer sex partners.
Teens also need to be encouraged to wait. Have sex, it's good for your health isn't going to help.
Ironically, the British just had a program that tried to keep girls from getting pregnant by teaching them about sex and handing out condoms. The teen pregnancy rate doubled. This approach doesn't work either.
