Cut-price condoms
Condoms just got cheaper, thanks to brothers Shandip and Ketan Shah who are offering a new brand of cut-price condoms, packaged to make them attractive to young women. Apparently, in their pharmacy, over the last few years, there has been 'a big increase in the number of girls coming in looking for the morning-after pill'. And they are concerned about the high rate of teenage pregnancy and poor sexual health in Britain. So, they are selling cheaper condoms.
Am I alone in thinking this is not the answer?
We also have an appalling level of mental health problems and tragic record of family breakdowns. Might this be connected? Would it not be better to address the causes of apparently irresponsible promiscuity, rather than alleviating the symptoms?
It is time to raise the aspirations we have for young people, to encourage them to value themselves highly, to recognise that they need and deserve affection and love and that random sex is not the way to find it.
There is a better way and we should say so.
2 comments:
Yep, looks like you are alone.
That's good, because it's decades since it wasn't normal to have sex with a regular partner pretty much from teenagehood to marriage. Like most Conservatives, and most people, I think that is a VERY positive thing. I couldn't possibly support a party that was so theocratic it was against 'sex before marriage'.
You're joking, right?!
You do know that sex is not just a casual activity like drinking a beer or playing a game of football, but rather a precious part of the loving, committed relationship that is marriage.
Surely you know this
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