Scouts in the UK Really, Really Prepared
Posted by Shannon LC Cate at 7:15 AM on October 22, 2008
From the Guardian:
"Scouts will for the first time will be given sexual health advice and may be issued with condoms to prevent unprotected sex, under guidelines to be issued today by the Scout Association.
In a new interpretation of the scout motto Be Prepared, visits to sexual health clinics will also be included.
The Scout Association have issued new guidelines for scouts aged 14-18 that include comprehensive sex education. Peter Duncan, the chief scout of the national organisation made the point that "We must be realistic and accept that around a third of young people are sexually active before 16 and many more start relationships at 16 and 17."
Even so, part of the scouting guidelines include role-playing saying no and encouraging young people to wait later to become sexually active.
Scouting is gender-integrated in the UK, but 85% of those involved are boys. Maybe it's easier to accept sexual reality when it's applied to boys? What do you think? Would you support sex-education coming from a source like scouting?
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