The British National Health Service, the same organization of geniuses that introduced ambulance stacking, has reached out once again in an attempt to curb teen pregnancy… by encouraging daily orgasms.
by Michael Naragon
So you want nationalized health care, eh? If you needed more proof of the typical idiocy of bureaucratic medical bungling, look no further than the newest pamphlet produced by the NHS and aimed at teens.
The brochure, titled “Pleasure,” recommends to school children that they not focus on loving relationships or safe sex, but strictly on the health benefits of sex, as if teens needed another excuse to engage in an adult lifestyle. In the same section of the pamphlet that advises children to be attentive to their eating habits, it includes the following:
Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?
Not surprisingly, the same government organization that recommended such activity has failed miserably in curbing teen pregnancy. A study in England has recently been released that indicates that girls who participated in the government’s $9.7 million pregnancy reduction initiative–a program which “educated” kids in safe sex and distributed condoms–were twice as likely to become pregnant as girls who did not participate. Britain’s teen pregnancy rate is the highest in Western Europe, and half of all teen pregnancies in England end in abortion.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail Online, the “orgasm a day” program’s apparatchik, Steve Slack, defended the pamphlet, claiming that it will, in fact, help children to delay sex until they are sure they will enjoy the experience. This sort of statement from a British government official brings two thoughts to mind.
First, it’s nice to see that bureaucrats in other countries are as myopic and stupid as our own.
Second, this sort of brazen foolishness should not excite anyone in the United States as to the inherent intelligence and wise paternalism that supposedly exists in the sort of government-run health care system that Barack Obama–a man who advocated sex education for kindergarteners–would like to see put in place here.
To put it another way, it’s really not the British government’s advice that “an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.” It is more likely the bureaucracy’s suggestion as to what to do for the years it takes before a patient may see the doctor.
