Monday, April 02, 2007

Telling young adults about condoms...

Thankfully only in my dreams. I had the strangest dream last night. I was a substitute teacher in a school that was located not far from where I used to play as a child. It was pretty run down and it was pretty much chaos everywhere. I was supposed to take over the history class, but thanks to crazy circumstances, I had to do sex ed with this group of fifteen or so 18-yo's. It was kind of funny, because they were all terribly inexperienced, and whenever I said "well, you know about this right", they went "no", and I had to tell them about really basic stuff. Then I had to teach them about safe sex, and my method to do this was exactly the same as one I was subjected to some ten years ago. I was trying to demonstrate for them how to roll on a condom by using someone's fingers. Yeah, I had to do this in sex ed once when I was young - I was given the choice whether to roll a condom onto my then best-friend's fingers or have her roll one onto mine. I refused both. Any old how. I was doing this in my dream, telling these oblivious kids about how it would only roll down if you put it on the right way and loads of shit. I've tried to interpret this dream, but I score nothing. My conscious interest in telling teenagers about safe ex is very limited, although I suppose it could be a reaction to a feature on the news a couple of days ago about how the abortion ratio has increased with 50% or something in the past decade. Maybe the dream holds a wish to educate kids to avoid abortions or something. Ah, whatever.

Now I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon studying. Then hockey. Very important game on tonight.

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