Mini-condoms for mini-me

Condom companies are aiming to sell condoms to boys as young as 12, starting in Switzerland (of course it's Europe who gets it first, though I was genuinely surprised it wasn't Holland or Finland). Family-planning groups and anti-AIDS agencies proposed to have this child-friendly option after research showed that teens were having unprotected sex. (Really, Europe, you guys are a bit behind in this area if you think kids are just recently having unprotected sex.)

The new condoms, "Hotshot" will be 1.7 inches in diameter (compared with the normal 2 inches).

Nancy Bodmer, the head researcher, reported that these (Swiss) kids didn't have a very developed sexual knowledge, nor did they prefer to have protected sex. They don't understand the risks and consequences of sexual intercourse, and should the consequences rear their ugly heads, it was goodbye girlfriend.

And to think Europe was advanced in everything. I guess they're only human too.

Switzerland is the first and only country where these mini condoms will be sold, but the UK has shown some interest.
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I can't even imagine in my head a 12 year old engaged in sexual intercourse. Childhood innocence is extinct. I don't want to be a radical conservative, but this is pretty ick. I have a few issues though. I get the purpose: to prevent diseases and pregnancy. However, would mass-marketing these tiny condoms actually encourage sexual activity in that age group?

We're also creating a double standard. We want kids to be free and happy and not be restricted or burdened with adult things (like politics), yet we're marketing these adult things to them, with the help of the media. Sex is in over half the songs (ugh Birthday Sex) we hear on the radio, and yet we tell kids, "I support your freedom and stuff, but we want you to be kids." Children are torn between what their parents want and what the reality is like. After all, that's when puberty kicks in.

And speaking of puberty, I completely see the point of these tiny condoms. Testosterone usually kicks in when a boy is 9, peaking when he is around 14-16. Funny thing with testosterone: it makes the "sexual" gland in the brain a lot larger and positioned at the frontal cortex, which is why it seems to us that males are perverted. Not to mention, men have a sexual area in the brain that is 2.5 times larger than in females. So if a guy wants to experiment with girls, that's normal, but not normal.

Normal because it's biological, but not normal because of society's concept of childhood. However, this is needed because of the lack of sexual knowledge Bodmer claims there is, and because there are a lot more serious and disastrous diseases more than in the 1960s.

Even after all the facts, though, I still think 12 year olds having sex is just gross.

America's rigged to let terrorists rule

Since you're my only follower 'cause someone forced me to make a tumblr D; I guess I should write more than one post, yeah? xD

So I was on youtube, and one of the TYT (The Young Turks) vid/podcast clips was really interesting. The Miss USA pageant winner this year is a Muslim girl, and this "Conservative Commentator" (as labelled by Fox News. Insert lulz hurr.) Debbie Schlussel, goes all like, "This country's rigged so that only Muslim girls would win!"

Oh pshaw, you neo-Nazi!

By the way, Debs is a pretty fat, white, blond-hair-blue-eyes type of white woman, probably in her 40s. Her conspiracy theories are so out of this world you'd be wondering whether she should have belonged back in the holocaust.

Anyhoo, the last time a Muslim girl won was probably in the 80s! And this is like, the first in a long time. CAN WE SAY HATERRRR.

America Fox News continues to baffle me.