I have seen displays likethis before. I thought the major flaw of it was that the percentages were skewed.
The program is designed to impress upon the people how deadly or fraught with consequences sex can be.
In order to do that it takes extreme consequences and makes them statistically likely.
So a real accurate game would have very few cards in an entire deck labeled with some misfortune. A percentage less than 10. But to make the point the percentage becomes much higher which cretes an erroneous perception of risk.
Part of the problem is that the people that originally design the programs and run the agencies sometimes have an agenda different than just safe sex.
some of them have a lot of the same types of people working for them that promote abstinence more for religious or social reasons and the "safe sex" movement fits their agenda rather well.
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Originally posted by Allie
As part of the Sex Ed calsses I teach, one entire presentation is on STI's. We actually start out by having some kids volunteer and they draw a few cards that we bring with us. Some draw one card and some draw up to 7, and every card has either an STI/pregnancy or a "free" on it. This simplifies what james stated, it's basicly luck of the draw. Sure there are ways to try to prevent STI's but they happen it's a reality of being sexually active. One thing we have the kids do is throught the 50 mins presentation we repeat together... "Sex is risky business!"
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