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MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Opening the airwaves to discussion, a local radio station refuses to shy away from controversy.

This week's entertainment news about the pregnancy of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears sparked a safe sex giveaway and plenty of discussion, WESH 2 News reported.

Radio Station KISS 95.1 invited everyone to its Melbourne studio to pick up condoms by the handful and by the box, advertised as a way to prevent teen pregnancy.
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"We're still being scared and not being proactive and telling our kids, 'Hey, you know what, I don't want you to have sex, but if you're going to have sex, use a condom," Mike Klein with WBVD radio said.

To many, a condom giveaway doesn’t solve the problem -- it is the problem.

"You're telling teenagers that a condom is your savior," Charles Ford Walker of Apostolic Ministries of America said.

Walker teaches abstinence to teens and said condoms give teenagers an excuse to have premarital sex.

"It takes care of everything, it takes care of you getting pregnant, it takes care of you getting an STD, so go right ahead," Walker said.

At the radio station, Project Response and AIDS prevention and service agency joined in the giveaway.

"Unfortunate fact is that a lot of teenagers are not choosing abstinence so for those kids we need to be talking about other methods of prevention like condom use," April Perkins with Project Response said.

One statistic agreed upon by many is that after several years of remaining steady, the rate of reported teen pregnancy is on the rise.

There was a lot more discussion than there were takers, but radio station executives said discussion is what it was all about.

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True, but depending upon the subject, that can be a mite tricky to pull off.

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As if teens in a hormone-rage needed an excuse...

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... quite tricky.

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I've never, never understood this issue. Most teens I know are aware of condoms and sex. Hiding them or limiting access to condoms isn;t the issue. The issues - I think - are that parents need to communicate openly with their kids about sex and its repercussions.

My mom was very open with me...and when I decided to start having sex (at 13) I had absolutely no issues walking into the drug store and buying my own condoms, thank you.

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That could be said of condoms as well...

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It is interesting to note that even when provided free,

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That's the irony of the whole “discussion” even when offered free people don't take them. Even though almost every one will agree condoms should be used by teens having sex. There is still such a taboo on teen sex that even when offered free the condoms weren't being taken.

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There may be issues that have yet to be addressed. One is, at least in my experience, that intercourse is more pleasant when not wearing a condom than it is when wearing one. I believe that this is true for most men.

Another is vaguer, but it is that the process of arousal and heightened intimacy which may begin with a wide range of interactions over an extended period, commonly climaxes with relatively brief sexual intercourse. By the time that the pair are about to “start” the “event” of sex, the sexual encounter has been underway for quite some time. I would suggest that within this context, the frame of reference the couple has at the moment can often see the requirement of condom use as an artificial imposition.

These are also reasons for the low uptake of prophylactic use.

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Would any amount of discussion get thru to some people how unpleasant unwanted pregnancies & STDs are?

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scotzoidman,

As you appear to believe that discussion of the subject will fail to achieve the desired goals, what do you propose as an alternative?

In a society as sensitive to civil liberties as this is, all the alternatives are, in my opinion, less attractive.

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