I really can’t. I can’t imagine living in an area in which a school helps sponsor "Glove Affairs" for young people my daughter’s age, "parties" in which favors like condoms are distributed and "education" happens.
Post corrected to reflect the fact that the school in question is a private school. But still!
Oakwood School in North Hollywood, where my daughter is in eighth grade, has been holding Glove Affair since 2000. In reality, it’s not a "condom party" but a fundraiser for L.A. AIDS-prevention groups. This year, about 500 teens attended — half from other middle and high schools across the city.
The aim is for kids to understand that having sex is serious business and to help them become utterly at ease with condoms, right down to unrolling them correctly and learning to check the expiration date. Mickey Morgan, a social studies teacher at Oakwood who helps organize the event, says that’s especially important for girls "so that it’s not awkward for them to talk about safe sex with boys — when the time comes."
You know the argument, of course. They’re going to do it, they’re doing it, so let’s make it "safe."
As if it will then be "safe."
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