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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (37135)8/12/2002 12:51:17 AM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
Blame it on Benny? I would have never guessed that British teenagers thought he was sexy. :-)

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By Charles Oliver

Benny Hill, Playmate of the Month (8/12)
The British government has blamed high teenage pregnancy rates on Benny Hill , the portly comedian who died in 1992. Seems his dirty-old-man persona and risqué sketches make sex just too attractive to teens. The "Benny Hill culture" and Britons? "giggly" attitudes towards sex are undermining government efforts to cut teen sex, says Cathy Hamlyn, head of the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Unit.