| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | ||||||||
| Look Whose Doing the Sex Education Now | ||||||||
Las Vegas was the scene this week of an even higher than usual concentration of augmented breasts, lips and other more hidden body parts. The AVN (Adult Video News) held its annual Adult Entertainment Expo. It wasn’t quite the Oscars, but there were still cameras clicking everywhere. It may have had something to do with the scantily-clad porn actresses abounding.  Putting aside any arguments on the pros and cons of porn, the industry that has been trying so hard to upgrade its reputation, including using a nice, sterile name like “Adult Entertainment”, has kicked itself in the proverbial big balls. The porn industry, if you don’t mind me calling them that, has spent a lot of money and effort over the past few years implementing and publicizing “safe sex” practices, mostly in the form of monthly STD testing. Yet, when the cameras turned to the actors in Vegas, there were very few who had something constructive to say about playing it safe. By their own admission, actors tend to count on routine testing and dismiss condoms altogether. In fact, an ABC news team interviewed a stream of female actors and male directors who used their dubious celebrity to inform all those who would listen, that condoms are uncomfortable, uncool and simply ruin the fantasy. So here’s a thought for those folks who believe it’s unthinkable that condom use be included in school sex education curricula: if you don’t give teens a better understanding of condoms, then this is the information that they are going to be weighing up when considering what kind of sex they’ll be having. One last word to the artists: I realize that your co-stars are an exceptional lot who couldn’t possible be susceptible to STDs, but just in case someone were to pick up something, y’all should know that not every infection shows up on tests and even those that do, take time to register. If I were you I’d run along and check what health insurance policy the Adult Industry provides. |
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