Hey UK teens, have more sex!

Britain's National Health Service in the city of Sheffield is dealing with the massive problems caused by teen sexual activity in the UK by publishing a pamphlet asserting the "right" of teens to good sex lives, and encouraging them to get as much nookie as they can because -- news flash! -- sex is fun. One English newspaper advice columnist can hardly believe the stupidity of all this. Excerpts:

I've spent the past ten years dishing out advice on sex and relationships to young people in magazines and on websites.

I know what they think and feel about sex. And I have to say, never have I seen such a triumph of flawed thinking as this initiative.

More:

True, our traditional approach to sex education -- giving teenagers biology lessons with anatomical diagrams and information about STIs -- doesn't appear to work very well. But telling them they should be swinging from the chandeliers is not the answer.

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Teenagers already know that sex is fun. That's why they want to do it!

They receive this message loud and clear from magazines, advertisements, soaps and films, where sex is portrayed as something aspirational, glamorous and usually consequence-free.

In fact, research shows that the more of this 'fun' sex teenagers are exposed to in the media, the more likely they are to do it underage.

And, responding to the NHS pamphlet's suggestion that teens have sex or masturbate twice a week for the good of their health:

Without meaning to be crude, do we really need to encourage adolescent males to masturbate?

And yet, religious conservatives are routinely portrayed as those who are "unrealistic" about human sexual behavior.