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Milwaukee Schools Put Education First With Free Condom Plan

HURRAH! ALICE COOPER WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID IN Wayne's World that Milwaukee meant "the good land!"

On Thursday night, Milwaukee's 7-member school board unanimously approved a plan to provide free condoms at the city's high schools.

Officials cited a recent study that found nearly 63 percent of the city's high school students are sexually active, and one-third of those kiddies admitted to not using a condom during their last sexual encounter.

Naturally, the town idiots claim the plan will promote promiscuity. Of course, anyone of sound mind knows that this is ludicrous. The availability of condoms will not raise the 63 percent who are having sex, but hopefully will slash the one-third percent who are engaging without condoms.

This is a huge step in the right direction. When I was in high school, we learned about condoms (which is more than most kids can say), but were never provided with any. I remember having to tell friends how to use them ("leave room at the tip," "don't use oil-based anything as lube," etc.). This after explaining that condoms were, in fact, a necessity, and that the "pull out method" didn't do shit.

Take away the stigma, take away the secrets, take away the sweaty-palmed 16-year-old quivering at the pharmacy with a pack of Trojans in hand. Replace with, duh, condoms in nurse's offices. This is real education.

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