Jan 5, 2012
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A New York lawmaker is demanding that state health workers remove a taxpayer-funded video series that promotes “raw-dogging” and other graphic sexual activities to teenagers as young as 13-years-old.
“More Than Just Sex” is a four-part video web series created by the Dept. of Health through the non-profit Community Health Network. The agency received more than $500,000 to teach high school-aged students about the dangers of unprotected sex.
The graphic videos feature young actors talking about sex while using street lingo – including words like “raw dogging” – having sex without wearing a condom.
“This video is raunchy,” State. Sen. Martin Golden told Fox News & Commentary. “It’s wrong, it’s shameful and they shouldn’t be doing it.”
Golden, a Republican from Bay Ridge, is furious that tax dollars were used to film the videos.
“A half million dollars – that’s what this video cost us,” he said. “No wonder we’re spending so much in education. We’re spending it inappropriately.”
A Dept. of Health official defended the videos and the content to the New York Daily News. They said the material was not “obscene” or “x-rated.”
Michelle Perlman, a spokesperson for the Community Health Network, told the newspaper that they wanted the videos to be realistic.
“We wanted to have an impact, that was going to be quick and easy,” she told the Daily News. “We want people to be like ‘whoa’.”
According to Golden – their mission was accomplished.
“I have a 13-year-old son and I definitely don’t want my son to see this racy video,” he said. “My staff looked at it and they didn’t want their children to see it. My community is outraged.”
Golden said the videos portray unprotected sex as “so good, so juicy.”
“Somebody asked me if I saw the other three videos, but after seeing the first one I didn’t want to look at the others,” he said. “If you watch this, you will be alarmed.”
Golden wants them to take down the videos and make them age-appropriate. If they don’t, he fears young people will be more inclined to jump into the sack.
“We’re spending a ton of money on education and we are 39th in graduation rates,” he said. ‘We should be teaching reading, writing, mathematics and science.”
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DANGER! This my parent friends will be what is added to your childs public school cirriculum soon. Hope you ask your children everyday what they learned. You will be surprised if you don't have this conversation every single day and undo this kind of BS!
This why my son is going to a classical christian school..
I personally don't think it's advocating unprotected sex…since the end talks about HIV, genital warts, pregnancy etc. Sure the whole "baby mama" stuff was on the joking side, but let's be honest…who REALLY paid attention to the serious and boring advertisements they saw when they were a kid?
I have a daughter, and while I think 13 is "too young" to be seeing this, we all know kids are having sex at that young of age. I remember it hitting the news in my homestate when I was in the 6th grade (circa 1997) about a 12 yr old girl getting pregnant and the dad was one of TWO 12 yr old boys she slept with. Maybe that video could have educated them or warned them, but there were no such programs during this time while I was in school, because everyone assumed 12 was "too young"…and the only things to be taught was what a menstrual cycle was, and the various changes during puberty.
If Golden thinks this is portraying "unprotected sex as “so good, so juicy" then obviously he is retarded and does not understand irony/satire. Can I assume he watched the video to the end or does his knee-jerk reaction cut in after he sees the dude bare-chestsed?
Steve Smith Not to mention…the claim that the term "raw dogging" is graphic. I'm taking it Golden has never ridden a school bus in his life. Kids these days say stuff that make sailors blush! The Health Dept didn't make up that phrase for the video, it's age-old!
I had to sit though a sexual harassment/sexual molestation skit in middle school that was more graphic than that.
This is absurd & distasteful! This HAS to be more damaging to our youth than a Christmas tree. I'm so glad I homeschool! Go ahead and add this to the long list of Government Education's most moronic moments!
Linda Moore Masci, The United States has one of the highest abortion rates in the developed world, with women from every socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, religious and age-group obtaining abortions. Surely the damage done from viewing this harmless video clip outweighs the consequences of not.
The video almost looks like it's trying to be funny. How could anyone find this educational?
It's called satire.
Steve Smith Yes it is satire and as an adult we understand satire but this is to be presented to young teenagers, like 13, who do not really understand satire yet and definitely will not take the time to read or pay attention to the words at the end. Do you know many adults let alone children that pay attention to the credits after a movie or the legal disclosures of a TV or radio commercial? The important part of this video is being presented as a side note that no one will pay attention to, in fact it's almost being presented as a joke.The kids will never see or hear the important part of the video just the part that is telling them to do the wrong thing. I showed it to a 21 year old and she didn't even see the real meaning, all she got from it was unprotected sex feels better and she's 21 not 12!!!
Aaron 'Buddah' Beach 13 year-olds understand a lot more than what you are giving them credit. If your friend or even this Martin Golden cannot see the real message by viewing the complete video, then it's indicative of a narrow education or a short attention span. I admit, the message is subtle but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out they are making fun of the unprotected sex message.
Steve Smith No I give 13 year old's credit for understanding a lot, a lot of stuff that they shouldn't, but getting satire is not one of those things. One of my best friends has 13 year old twin boys and I spend a lot of time with them, their vocabulary is extensive but I have found that their knowledge of the definitions of the words that they use is not only limited but also vastly incorrect as well. At 13, most Children, and that is what they are, still take most things quite literally. You are correct on the narrow education part which is the case with the majority of our public schools, so as to your comment about not taking a rocket scientist, at most high schools today you would be lucky to have even half of the kids able to read all of the words written in the video with less than that being able to define the meaning of those words so it's not rocket scientists were working with here if we were we wouldn't need to be discussing unprotected sex in fact we would not have to worry about discussing sex with a future rocket scientist at all. I understand the thought process of the makers of the video and in an ideal situation it would work but lets be honest here, in our public schools there are no ideal situations so in my opinion the video would backfire and make the problem even worse.
Aaron 'Buddah' Beach I see your point. So you're saying they should have made the message more obvious. Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvI_pjphWrU
Steve Smith You obviously live in an ivy tower, seeing the world through rose colored glasses. You give 13yr olds TOO much credit.The message is right on, protect yourself. But, should be delivered straight up, no satire.Even lost to one kid makes it a fail.
Frank Ross No Frank, I don't live in an ivy tower — not very stable those weeds — but a plain simple, wooden house. I don't wear glasses, except to read, and they're not rose-colored at all. The add isn't just going to be seen by 13-year-olds and I would suspect (but I might be wrong) that it would be discussed in class hence getting the message (and the irony) across to kids. So the real complaint here is that it's not dumbed-down enough for American kids. Is that what you're saying?
Aaron 'Buddah' Beach, I'm sorry to say it but if a 21-year-old can't get the overwhelming message from that video clip, there must be something wrong with her. A 21-year-old who had concluded that sex without a condom is more pleasurable and therefore recommended as being the main idea behind the video clip has absolutely no deductive reasoning skills at all; skills that are needed for a 12-year-old to pass any exam in today's day and age.
Steve Smith, but shouldn't these kinds of lessons be up to the parents to teach thier kids and not the government?
Ethan Coggeshall, The problem is a lot of parents are just as ignorant as today's youth and don't forewarn their children. In such cases, isn't societal health the job of the Government?
Tim Gale, The government can't even teach our kids the subjects they're supposed to teach them. After classes like this have been taught, STDs and Pregnancy rates have only gone up. Tim you should go get a law degree, thats what your fit for.
Ethan Coggeshall, Are you saying that if such subjects were taboo, STDs and pregnancy rates would go down? Also, you need to show, and reference, the rates of STDs and pregnancy going up before you assert it.
haha, statists say the darndest things. How would you people live if you didn't have the government telling you what to do all the time?
Ethan Coggeshall, Is it non sequitur hour?
Ethan Coggeshall, however, you are right. Rates of STDs are going up at an alarming rate.
I see this as promoting sex, and almost making fun of the reasons to abstain.
It's using satire to promote safe sex. Abstaining never works—look what happened to Mary.
Steve Smith Yes, I got that… however, I tried to watch it from a neutral perspective. And in my opinion, the overall feel was, that natural unprotected sex is worth the risk. Most kids that I have ever known view things from the, "That won't happen to me" mentality, And although there was a list at the end of the clip of "ALL THE THINGS THAT CAN GO WRONG" it continued in what someone thought, I'm sure, as humorous. This is an epic fail. That is my opinion.
Angie Hillhouse Winstead So the add should be dumbed-down to make sure the kids (and some adults) get the message?
So then you are against the DARE Program Angie? DARE stands for Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education and little 12 year olds are taught what all the different drugs are, the slang use (weed, ice, dope etc),and talks about all the physical effects (makes you sleepy, makes you get munchies, you become awake and energetic).
Ontop of that, the children are also given coloring books in which they color pictures of kids drinking beer, being drunk or high, etc.
Would you claim that's education to prevent harmful activities….or would you say it's promoting drug use?
Amber Younger Where in the world do you two get that from the above?! I totally agree that something needs to be done… I never said nor so much as hinted of what either of you are concluding. Go troll elsewhere.
Angie Hillhouse Winstead you said in your original post that the video is promoting sex. So with that line of thinking….DARE and their coloring books and use of drug slang would also be promoting drug use to children.
It's not trolling dear, it's reading your post and making an observation based on that.
God help us! Just sayn!
…just when I thought the government had reached the pinnacle of retardation…they go out of their way to out do themselves….with our money….again.
I mean…that's how kids talk. Should it be shown to 13 year olds? Probably not but you know they see worse stuff than that on TV. But "raw dogging?" C'mon lol.
All these parents that are in an uproar…their kids probably watch South Park when they go to bed lol!!!
Amber Younger Oh probably – and know how to get around parental controls on the Internet.
Kelly Calder Lol, I remember waiting for my mom to go to bed so I could watch Beavis And Butthead!!!