New Regs to Prep UK Scouts for Sex

Guidelines will encourage counselors to promote safe sex
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 20, 2008 6:34 AM CDT
New Regs to Prep UK Scouts for Sex
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: Shirt badges are displayed by a boy scout on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate scouting's 100th birthday. The organisation, started by Robert Baden-Powell with his first scout...   (Getty Images)

Britain's Boy Scouts may soon be as prepared for healthy sex as they are for camping and woodworking, reports the Guardian. Counselors will discuss sexual health with Scouts, may even hand out condoms to prevent unprotected sex, and take their boys on visits to clinics under new guidelines to be issued today by the Scout Association primarily for boy ages 14 to 18. The association has some 400,000 members, 85% of them boys.

"We must be realistic and accept that around a third of young people are sexually active before 16," said the association's chief. "Adults in scouting have a duty to promote safe and responsible relationships." (More Scouts stories.)

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