Yes, the Republican theories of birth control education are catching on world-wide. How else to explain this:
China blames Internet for rise in teen pregnancies
Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: July 9, 2007, 9:25 PM PT
BEIJING--Nearly half of the pregnant teens in China's financial hub, Shanghai, met their partners on the Internet, state media said on Tuesday.
Zhang Zhengrong, a doctor who oversees the city's first-aid hotline for pregnant teens, said 46 percent of the more than 20,000 teenage girls who called the hotline over the past two years said they had had sex with boys they met on the Internet.
Obviously, those Internet Tubes are brimming with "precious bodily fluids" even behind the Great Firewall of China!
On a more serious note, China is a big warning as to what happens when young people are denied sex education: (MORE BELOW)
""I had two university students who had been married for two years and hadn't managed to have children. They went to the hospital for a check-up and it emerged that they didn't even know the first thing about sex. They thought simply sleeping in the same bed would get her pregnant," she said.
For many other young people it is the opposite problem. They are exploring their sexuality without knowing how to protect themselves.
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I think one of the reasons is that we don't have very good sexual education in schools. It is still very much centred around physiological development."
(Source: BBC News China's dangerous sexual ignorance, May 23, 2005)
At least the Chinese are smart enough to start working on the problem rather than the Bush League's penchant for making problems worse:
Taboos smashed on China's sex education
Updated: 2004-09-10 08:52
China is working to break taboos on sex education for teenagers.
"Sexual and reproduction health of teenagers" was set as one of major topics at the International Forum on Population and Development that opened Tuesday in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.
The Bush League's answer is to suppress science, under the theory that if you don't think about it, it won't happen:
Ex-Surgeon General Says Administration Interfered
by Julie Rovner
All Things Considered, July 10, 2007
Accusations that the Bush administration is playing politics with science are nothing new. But Tuesday, those charges came from one of the administration's own appointees — former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona.
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"The reality is that the nation's doctor has been marginalized and relegated to a position with no independent budget and with supervisors who are political appointees with partisan agendas," Carmona said. "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried."
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