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New Regs to Prep UK Scouts for Sex

Guidelines will encourage counselors to promote safe sex

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(Newser) – Britain's Boy Scouts may soon be as prepared for healthy sex as they are for camping and woodworking, reports the Guardian. Counselors will discuss sexual health with Scouts, may even hand out condoms to prevent unprotected sex, and take their boys on visits to clinics under new guidelines to be issued today by the Scout Association primarily for boy ages 14 to 18. The association has some 400,000 members, 85% of them boys.

"We must be realistic and accept that around a third of young people are sexually active before 16," said the association's chief. "Adults in scouting have a duty to promote safe and responsible relationships."

SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: Shirt badges are displayed by a boy scout on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate scouting's 100th birthday. The organisation, started by Robert Baden-Powell with his first scout camp on Poole...
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: Shirt badges are displayed by a boy scout on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate...   (Getty Images)
Ellis Hunsaker displays his finance merit badge with 27 other badges Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, in Salt Lake City. To earn the personal management badge, boys must know the difference between simple and compound interest, and why mutual funds grow money faster than CDs. Last year, nearly 50,000 scouts...
Ellis Hunsaker displays his finance merit badge with 27 other badges Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, in Salt Lake City. To earn the personal management badge, boys must know the difference between simple and...   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: A boy scout wears multiple scarves and a cross as he attends centenary celebrations of the first scout camp on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate scouting's 100th birthday in 2007....
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: A boy scout wears multiple scarves and a cross as he attends centenary celebrations of the first scout camp on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts...   (Getty Images)
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: Shirt badges are displayed by a Boy scout on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate scouting's 100th birthday in 2007. The organisation, started by Robert Baden-Powell with his first scout camp...
SANDBANKS, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: Shirt badges are displayed by a Boy scout on August 1, 2007 on Brownsea Island, England. Scouts from almost every country in the world have gathered to celebrate...   (Getty Images)
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