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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (20666)8/5/2001 9:00:40 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
1) One could drug them to dissipate their sexual urges.

Did you ever read Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House", Karen? The possibility has been explored, on the fictional level anyway.

4) Or they could be brainwashed. Perhaps that's more what the folks here who think kids can avoid a decision about sex have in mind. Here again, modern technology could probably produce a device or technique or a combination of the two that would be effective.

In another fictional treatment, there was always those junior anti-sex leagues.

Funny thing is, the original article I noted on this topic, washingtonpost.com , seemed to imply the abstinence approach was being considered somewhat more broadly than subsequent discussion here. It wasn't just for sex education, W's pals seem to be pushing for a general wind-down of family planning in the convention birth control sense in favor of the "just say no" approach. Right from the top:

The Bush administration is making a fundamental change in how the federal government approaches issues involving reproductive health, scaling back efforts to promote family planning and contraception while aggressively promoting "abstinence-only" programs.

Their confidence in their ability to reengineer human nature is touching.
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