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Sex education? It's more like pornThe New Paper | Mon Nov 15 2010
Graphic clips by Britain's National Health Service show couple having sex.
THE video was designed to encourage youngsters to use contraception.
But critics have instead branded the clips pornographic and slammed Britain's National Health Service (NHS) for encouraging pre-martial sex among teenagers.
The NHS uploaded several video clips ontoYouTube modelled on a popular reality TV series, Skins, and the clips are aimed at teenagers.
Some of the graphic clips include a young man having unprotected casual sex with a young woman while he films the act with a handheld video camera.
The clips are part of an interactive video where users can make choices for the actor during the story, reported Britain's Daily Mail.
The video, "Condom, no condom", is promoted on the NHS website and is expected to be circulated over the Internet andto be used by sex education teachers.
The video follows a boy who meets a girl at a party and they proceed to have sex later.
The viewer can choose to buy condoms before the party and also whether the boy will have unprotected sex with the girl named Jen.
Some of the video clips portray graphic sex between the two actors in a hallway.
Another scene shows the pair having sex on the girl's bed.
In one of the scenes where the boy has unprotected sex, the clip later says that he has contracted a sexually-transmitted disease.
Some YouTube users have flagged the videos as inappropriate, meaning that only viewers aged over 18 are able to view the clips.
Family and sex education groups have also criticised the videos.
They say the lack of an abstinence option during the video is irresponsible.
Mr Norman Wells, the director of the Family and Education Trust, said the NHS should not be sending out the message that casual sex "leaves no regrets".
Irresponsible
He said: "It is grossly irresponsible of the NHS to present a graphic portrayal of unbridled lust in which a young woman is depicted as no more that a sex object and then to tell young men that they have 'made the right choices' simply because they have used a condom."
Ms Vivienne Pattisson, the director of Mediawatch, said she was concerned that there were no effective controls to prevent children from watching the clips.
Ironically, UK government officials themselves may not be aware of the anger the video has aroused because anti-pornography filters have blocked the video from being viewed in their offices.
Meanwhile, Ms Rachel Drummond-Hay, who produced the video for Bristol-based Omni Productions, said that a friend's 15-year-old daughter "loved" the film and that it was intended to be "titillating rather than pornographic".
This article was first published in The New Paper.
Sex education? It's more like pornThe New Paper | Mon Nov 15 2010
Graphic clips by Britain's National Health Service show couple having sex.
THE video was designed to encourage youngsters to use contraception.
But critics have instead branded the clips pornographic and slammed Britain's National Health Service (NHS) for encouraging pre-martial sex among teenagers.
The NHS uploaded several video clips ontoYouTube modelled on a popular reality TV series, Skins, and the clips are aimed at teenagers.
Some of the graphic clips include a young man having unprotected casual sex with a young woman while he films the act with a handheld video camera.
The clips are part of an interactive video where users can make choices for the actor during the story, reported Britain's Daily Mail.
The video, "Condom, no condom", is promoted on the NHS website and is expected to be circulated over the Internet andto be used by sex education teachers.
The video follows a boy who meets a girl at a party and they proceed to have sex later.
The viewer can choose to buy condoms before the party and also whether the boy will have unprotected sex with the girl named Jen.
Some of the video clips portray graphic sex between the two actors in a hallway.
Another scene shows the pair having sex on the girl's bed.
In one of the scenes where the boy has unprotected sex, the clip later says that he has contracted a sexually-transmitted disease.
Some YouTube users have flagged the videos as inappropriate, meaning that only viewers aged over 18 are able to view the clips.
Family and sex education groups have also criticised the videos.
They say the lack of an abstinence option during the video is irresponsible.
Mr Norman Wells, the director of the Family and Education Trust, said the NHS should not be sending out the message that casual sex "leaves no regrets".
Irresponsible
He said: "It is grossly irresponsible of the NHS to present a graphic portrayal of unbridled lust in which a young woman is depicted as no more that a sex object and then to tell young men that they have 'made the right choices' simply because they have used a condom."
Ms Vivienne Pattisson, the director of Mediawatch, said she was concerned that there were no effective controls to prevent children from watching the clips.
Ironically, UK government officials themselves may not be aware of the anger the video has aroused because anti-pornography filters have blocked the video from being viewed in their offices.
Meanwhile, Ms Rachel Drummond-Hay, who produced the video for Bristol-based Omni Productions, said that a friend's 15-year-old daughter "loved" the film and that it was intended to be "titillating rather than pornographic".
This article was first published in The New Paper.
