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15-12-2002, 10:28 PM
Singapore to use shock tactics to steer teens away from sex
Thursday, December 12 @ 12:24:53 MYT
SINGAPORE, Dec 12 (AFP) - Singapore teens are to be bombarded with horror pictures showing body parts disfigured by sexually-transmitted diseases in a government attempt to quell a growing cavalier attitude to casual sex.
A 10-page magazine called "Teenagers Ask" showing the horrors of sex diseases will be distributed to all secondary-three pupils next year, a Health Promotions Board spokesman said Thursday.
The 15-year-olds will see colour pictures of people suffering from diseases such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis.
"We have used graphic pictures before, the only difference about this is that it is more conversational, it's in a magazine format to appeal to teenagers," the spokesman told AFP.
The essential message of the publication is for teens to say no to premarital or casual sex to avoid being infected.
Singapore authorities have repeatedly expressed concern about rising teen promiscuity and earlier this year signed up to "No Apologies: The Truth About Life, Love and Sex", a US-originated program which advocates abstinence until marriage.
Under the program, Singapore teens will be put through a four-hour workshop, learning how to handle sexuality issues and signing a pledge not to have sex before they marry.
The minister of state for community development, Chan Soo Sen, said it was alarming to note that teenage abortions have been on the increase, with 1,698 abortions, or 13 percent of the total last year involving women aged 20 and younger.
A recent global sex survey showed one-third of about 870 Singaporeans aged from 16 to above 30 practise unsafe sex, and nearly half said they would have sex with a new partner without a condom.
A group of parents and teens shown the new magazine were said to have been shaken by the pictures.
"The pictures are gross, but the scarier the better because it's the fear factor that will stop people from taking sex casually," 15-year-old Ben Tay told the Straits Times.
The stright-shooting magazine also contains a "Dear Aunt Aida" column which provides candid answers on questions about sex.
Under Singapore law, if anyone under the age of 18 is preparing to get married, they and their partner must undergo a special marriage-preparation programme.
Of about 150 couples who went through the course in the two years to June this year, virtually all the young women were pregnant.
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Thursday, December 12 @ 12:24:53 MYT
SINGAPORE, Dec 12 (AFP) - Singapore teens are to be bombarded with horror pictures showing body parts disfigured by sexually-transmitted diseases in a government attempt to quell a growing cavalier attitude to casual sex.
A 10-page magazine called "Teenagers Ask" showing the horrors of sex diseases will be distributed to all secondary-three pupils next year, a Health Promotions Board spokesman said Thursday.
The 15-year-olds will see colour pictures of people suffering from diseases such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis.
"We have used graphic pictures before, the only difference about this is that it is more conversational, it's in a magazine format to appeal to teenagers," the spokesman told AFP.
The essential message of the publication is for teens to say no to premarital or casual sex to avoid being infected.
Singapore authorities have repeatedly expressed concern about rising teen promiscuity and earlier this year signed up to "No Apologies: The Truth About Life, Love and Sex", a US-originated program which advocates abstinence until marriage.
Under the program, Singapore teens will be put through a four-hour workshop, learning how to handle sexuality issues and signing a pledge not to have sex before they marry.
The minister of state for community development, Chan Soo Sen, said it was alarming to note that teenage abortions have been on the increase, with 1,698 abortions, or 13 percent of the total last year involving women aged 20 and younger.
A recent global sex survey showed one-third of about 870 Singaporeans aged from 16 to above 30 practise unsafe sex, and nearly half said they would have sex with a new partner without a condom.
A group of parents and teens shown the new magazine were said to have been shaken by the pictures.
"The pictures are gross, but the scarier the better because it's the fear factor that will stop people from taking sex casually," 15-year-old Ben Tay told the Straits Times.
The stright-shooting magazine also contains a "Dear Aunt Aida" column which provides candid answers on questions about sex.
Under Singapore law, if anyone under the age of 18 is preparing to get married, they and their partner must undergo a special marriage-preparation programme.
Of about 150 couples who went through the course in the two years to June this year, virtually all the young women were pregnant.
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