Powerful Scandanavian sex-ed org pushing "sex merit badges" for youths
UnderReported News| June 21 2004
According to a June 18, 2004 Aftenposten
article (emphasis added):
Sex merit badge on offer
Young Norwegians can earn a merit badge in sex this summer. The pin, modeled on a popular summer swimming merit badge, is an offer from Swedish-Norwegian sex education group RFSU, also the main producer and importer of condoms to Norway, newspaper VG reports.
The badge, which displays sperm cells swimming in waves, can be won by correctly answering 10 out of 13 questions about sex.
"You need a license to drive a car and you should have a sex certificate that shows you don't take health risks. This is done seriously and with humor and the goal of course is to get more people using condoms," said RFSU manager Tone-Berit Lintho.
It's also covered by a June 18 UPI
story.
And according to rfsu.se, they take credit for:
1955 Sex Education made compulsory in schools
1970 Contraceptives can be sold without a special license
1975 Law permitting abortion on demand up to the 18th week of pregnancy
1982 Battering of women falls under public prosecution
1982 Government appoints a working group on man’s role
1989 Parental leave extended.
It's amazing that a condom manufacturer made sex education compulsory in 1955 in Scandanavia. Scandanavia is decades ahead of the U.S. in terms of corporate influence over schools, but I'm sure the U.S. will catch up soon.