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From K9 dogs finding a non-threat to Milan Lucic is offering relationship advice to the Pope supporting condom use, Bostonist is surprised by the news today. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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Bostonist knows of at least two things that make people go crazy: Sharks (scary!) and condoms (also scary, somehow!). Sharks sometimes eat people, which is bad. We can't always explain what it is about condoms that bothers some people so much (other than latex, but there's a solution for that).
Provincetown's school committee voted to allow every student, apparently even first-graders, to obtain condoms at school, beginning in September. There are currently 152 students in the entire Provincetown school district. The school committee doesn't expect first-graders to actually ask for condoms. "We didn't want to pick an age, and I really don't believe we're going to get first-graders asking for a condom, as a practical matter," school committee chairman Peter Grosso said. Gov. Deval Patrick doesn't like it. Bostonist is okay with schools giving kids access to condoms, and also providing appropriate sex education. We also know first-graders who really shouldn't be aware of what a condom is used for. [Cape Cod Times]
Stonehill College administrators don't want students distributing free condoms to each other... because they'd rather have students distribute free herpes and babies to each other by having unprotected sex! We all know how well vows of "chastity" work for priests, so who can expect college students to refrain, even at a Catholic school? Stonehill's backwards position on birth control is almost as absurd as some of the Globe comments in response to the situation, which include gems like "This girl should be more concerned about the spread of herpes by sharing cups playing beer-pong rather than the students not being coherent enough to use condoms." The dangers of beer pong aside, it's not about students being coherent enough to use condoms. It's about students having good access to condoms—which they don't, because the school took them away. Stonehill certainly has the right to enforce its policies on campus, but it does so at the risk of deterring students from attending the school. The fact that the school's already been driven to accept non-Catholic students (as in the case of the condom distributor) suggests that the market for a school with such strict policies may be about as small as the likelihood that college students will abstain from sex. Perhaps Stonehill will need to rethink its position on these issues if it wants to survive.
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