Back in seventh or eighth grade, we learned about sex from our junior high school health teacher. There was no banana, but she did show us a condom and explain how to use it before plastering on the overhead biology diagrams of the male and female reproductive organs. Across the pond, however, some teens are receiving a more direct approach, with take-home assignments: rubber penises.
An embarrassed father has said he was shocked when his teenage daughter returned home from a sexual health workshop with a six-inch rubber penis.
Kevin Neal, 46, father of teenage mother Kizzy, who previously hit headlines when she fell pregnant at the age of 13, said he was “bemused” by the NHS trust’s decision to dish out the spongy penises.
Miss Neal was one of a group of young mothers who volunteered to attend a workshop given by the Chlamydia screening service at the specialist home she lives in with her 22-month-old son.
Mr Neal, from Paignton, in Devon, told the Herald Express: “I am not prudish, and we more than most families fully appreciate the value of tackling these issues head on.
“But it amuses and bemuses me to think that a group of healthcare professionals have spent time and come up with a presentation designed to target teenage girls that would include a replica rubber penis to be given away as a free gift.
“We consider this to be a misappropriation of taxpayers’ money and extremely offensive.
Jon B
AMAZING!!! Can you even imagine what would happen in America? I dare speculate that the reaction would be a bit more than bemusement.
P.S. Please change the format of the site back!
The D.Stro
Hmm, she was pregnant at 13 and this was a private specialist home… they should get over themselves.
And yeah, I don’t know who wrecked the site but suddenly I’m glad I only use the RSS feed and won’t have to navigate the sensory overload that is the home page…
duckie
i would have loved to have had a dildo when i was a teenager. đ
@Jon B: a link for the “classic queerty” look is available on the mainpage, or go here …
http://www.queerty.com/page/1/
Mark
Not only would people have been put in jail in the US, people would have been fired, the God botherers would have protested, legislators (Republicans all) would have drafted laws to put the workers in Gitmo, and abstinence only ‘education’ would have immediately been mandatory within 50 miles of that school.
That’s what neo-Pilgrims do.
tavdy79
Damn, I’m sooo living in the wrong part of the UK! Now all I got to do is persuade my local NHS PCT to start giving them out locally…
Michael
Really now, how vulgar! Just as one should never ever treat guests to fake flowers at a gathering, rubber penises are plain ol’ tacky. Remember, always treat your guests to real penises–it’s a good thing.
Jamie
“Tackling these issues head on.”
*walks away giggling*
kevwyn
me thinks she is already familiar with the equipment(preggers at 13)why have the stand in when she clearly can get a hold of the real thing.was it a grab bag? could she have gone home with a big rubber vagina if she wanted?
its the same old story, is it because its a rubber dong or are people spending too much time thinking about what she might be doing with it in “her alone time”. all sid and done its just a penis, if anything it will promote masturbation and toy play and who doesnt like that
Brianna
I would have taken it home and wrote on it with a permanent marker:
“I AM A LESBIAN”
HANK
The moral here is name your kid “Kizzy” and don’t be shocked when she comes home pregnant at 13. It’s like trash WANT to doom their children.
BrianZ
Damn it. And to think the drama I had to go through to get my first dildo!