I was reading an opinion article yesterday banging on, no pun intended, about the Scout movement's decision to introduce sex education to it's meetings.
The writer was suggesting that perhaps there is too much sex education and kids are just bored by it.
Well he could be right, as with all subjects in primary school it is visited and re-visited year after year, repeating the same things and perhaps adding a little extra information to cater to the growing understanding of the child.
But pregnancy rates are still shockingly high amongst the under eighteens and even more so in the under sixteens, and the same is true for STDs, in fact these figures are rising.
The boys and the girls know where to get condoms from, they know how to put them on, the point is, they choose not to. They think it won't happen to them. Some people never learn.
And isn't that true of everything.
People still start smoking, even though the dangers have been highlighted for years, people still drink to excess, eat too much, drive too fast, in fact it appears the more they tell us not to, the more likely we are to do whatever it is.
But perhaps the most gobsmacking proof of this phenomenon is politician's behaviour.
Time and time again they put themselves into situations that they shouldn't; sex scandals, abuse of position scandals, bribe scandals, donation scandals, you name it, they do it.
Then when it inevitably comes out, they make matters worse by thinking that they can cover it up, with the not quite truth.
Everything gets worse, they have to resign and then hey, what do you know, somebody else is at it, thinking they can get away with it. Some people never learn.
I don't know which bit pisses me off the most, our ability to elect sleazeballs or the utter contempt in which they obviously hold the electorate.
More Sex and the Scouts
