The education bureau suggests teens who want to have sex could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

It may be an innocent enough racquet sport, but Hong Kong’s Education Bureau has unintentionally given badminton a whole new meaning.

In teaching materials it released last week, a module titled adolescents and intimate relationships for Secondary Year 3, suggested that teenagers who wanted to have sex with each other could “go out to play badminton together” instead.

The materials also include a form called “My Commitment” aimed at getting “young lovers” to attest that they would exercise “self-discipline, self-control, and resistance to pornography”.

    • @NineMileTowerEnglish
      12•4 months ago

      Me and your mom played doubles last night.

  • @[email protected]English
    31•4 months ago

    This reminds me of the time, in college, when a Christian fellowship leader gave us all a list of alternatives to sex, including

    1. Passing chocolate from mouth to mouth
    2. Naked wrestling…
    • @T156English
      13•4 months ago
      1. Naked wrestling…

      That just sounds like a euphemism for sex, not an alternative.

      • SkaveRatEnglish
        11•4 months ago

        Sounds like he caught his parents as a kid, they said they are "naked wrestling"and he never questioned it

  • jay
    15•4 months ago

    We finally figured out why Linus is so deep into badminton.

  • @NineMileTowerEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    These modules FROM THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT look like a power point lesson plan that I would have done in college.

    However, the learning goals are very progressive. This part is what should be taught about sex everywhere:

    Whenever a behaviour occurs, it is often accompanied by an activating event (including people, circumstances, events) and a consequence.

    Also, the unit on myths vs. reality. This is important stuff that doesn’t get taught in the US, due to conservative prudes and it’s my opinion that the sexually uneducated end up causing sexual abuse.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•4 months ago

      I admittedly haven’t read the material, but your quoted text sounds very vague and indirect. Perhaps there was more content that was more direct and concrete.

      • @NineMileTowerEnglish
        5•4 months ago

        Yeah, I wonder where you could look it up? Maybe in the link OP posted above. Or you could just comment and look stupid, it’s up to you.

    • @WombleEnglish
      1•4 months ago

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  • Yer MaEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    TIL it’s not called “badmitten”

  • @oursEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    The “Challengers” sequel writes itself.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•4 months ago

    I played badminton with a friend and their girlfriend a few days ago. Guess in HK that’d pass as a euphemism.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    First the badminton, then the sex.