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Using the game “Adventures in Sex City” to teach teens about safe sex.
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As a teacher I often use games to teach or review facts. Games make learning fun, even painless. I’m always on the look out for new games. Imagine my surprise when I read
LONDON, ONT. – The public health unit in London, Ont., is using comic book-themed superheroes and a villain named the evil “Sperminator” to teach teens about safe sex.
Visitors to their website can play the game “Adventures in Sex City,” by choosing one of the characters: Wonder Vag, Willy the Kid, Power Pap or Captain Condom.
The goal is to then correctly answer 25 questions about sexual health and defeat the evil Sperminator, a character with penises for arms. (healthzone.ca)
When I took a look at it, I’m not sure what to think. What do you think?
There is a warning when you go to play the game that it is intended for mature teen audiences, but aren’t immature teens engaging in sex and need to know this info if they choose to be sexuality active?
If teens are going to engage in sex, it is important that they know about safe sex. I’m not advocating teens have sex, but if they are and many do, I want them to know about safe sex. As adults we owe them that.
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Wow. The information is good, but I just don’t know if the students would take the message seriously when it’s presented in such a ridiculous way.
I was wondering about that too, but I don’t know. Maybe I’ll have my grade 12 students review it and tell me what they think.
Please post how it turns out. I’m curious.
Given that a panel of youth aged 16-20 came up with a lot of the content including what they basically wanted the characters to look like I think that after the initial giggle-factor they would actually absorb the info. Maybe even quiz them after what was the one fact they were shocked to learn about or something along those lines.
It is interesting how the characters of the game follow common stereotypes that exist in today’s society. For example, the “Latino” girl is the sexually active one while the Caucasian girl is the “Pure Christian” one.
This is by far the best way to teach children.A cartoon based porno smut talking about same sex and disease. I cant wait for a 6 or 8 yr old to stumble on to it. Perhaps a class action law suit is in order ,for steeling childrens innocence.