{"id":19183,"date":"2009-11-13T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19183"},"modified":"2009-11-18T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T00:31:40","slug":"spanish-region-launches-masturbation-education-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/spanish-region-launches-masturbation-education-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Region Launches Masturbation Education Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, someone has figured it out. Officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major program to encourage the unthinkable: masturbation. The region’s socialist government has launched a \u20ac14,000 ($21,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure” \u2013 or to put it less delicately: masturbation. This, according to the Guardian<\/em> newspaper in the UK.<\/p>\n

“Pleasure is in your own hands” is the slogan of a campaign that has sparked political controversy and challenges traditional Roman Catholic views on people having sex, even on their own, for non-reproductive reasons.<\/p>\n

Conservative spokespeople responded mainly with embarrassment. “This is an intimate subject that should be dealt with at home,” complained local opposition leader Hern\u00e1ndez Carr\u00f3n of the rightwing People’s party. “We have become the laughing stock of Spain.”<\/p>\n

“They are interfering with the right of parents to educate their own children about a matter as important as their sexuality,” agreed the conservative Confederation of Fathers and Mothers of Schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

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Officials from the neighboring region of Andalucia have expressed an interest in copying the program. The campaign includes leaflets, fliers, a “fanzine” and workshops for the young in which they receive instruction on self-pleasuring techniques along with advice on contraception and self-respect.<\/p>\n

Extremadura’s government is funding the campaign through its youth and women’s affairs departments.<\/p>\n

“The campaign is simple, clear, natural and easily understood by the people it is aimed at, who are aged between 14 and 17,” said Laura Garrido, president of the Youth Council of Extremadura.<\/p>\n

Commentators questioned why the poorest region in Spain was paying for a campaign to promote masturbation, though they did not seem to get the point that masturbation gives girls an alternative to the kind of sex that could lead to getting pregnant, and teaches everyone that there is more to sex than\u00a0 fucking, and that everyone is responsible for their own pleasure.<\/p>\n

If you don’t live in the <\/span><\/span>Extremadura region or don’t speak Spanish, we recommend a website called Solotouch.com<\/strong><\/a> or BettyDodson.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, someone has figured it out. Officials in the Spanish region of Extremadura have launched a major program to encourage the unthinkable: masturbation. The region’s socialist government has launched a \u20ac14,000 ($21,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure” \u2013 or to put it … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}