UNICEF'S idea of protecting children???

[underdog]

When you donate to UNICEF (their biggest donation drive, appropriately, is on Hallowe'en), one of the ways the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund spends your money is on education for Third World countries.

 

An example of U.N.-sponsored education was circulated at the United Nations Special Session on Children Conference in New York. The special session is ostensibly devoted to improving the rights of the world's children by improving access to abortion, among other things.

 

Included were titles like "Refugee Children," "Protecting Boys and Girls During Armed Conflict" and "Beyond Yokohama: Combating Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children."

 

One of the ways the U.N. hopes to combat the sexual exploitation of children is to educate them to the dangers. UNICEF has taken the lead in funding this effort. Delegates were given portions of a book published by the Mexican government and funded by the United Nations.

 

Loosely translated from the Spanish, the book is entitled, "Theoretic Elements for Working with Mothers and Pregnant Teens." A few excerpts from this workshop text were published in a news report in the Washington Times. The book outlines the kinds of things Third World kids need to know, like: "Reproductive health includes the following components: counseling on sexuality, pregnancy, methods of contraception, abortion, infertility, infections and diseases."

 

Sounds reasonable enough, although abstinence as a strategy seems somewhat poorly represented. But the book does advocate some other alternatives.

 

"Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner – whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons."

 

But if none of that grabs the attention of your average Third World teenaged girl, the U.N. has more suggestions. How about lesbian sex as an acceptable alternative for girls? "Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people," the book says. "The one that gives us the most satisfaction and that which is adopted to our way of being and the style of life we have chosen. This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."

 

 

The U.N. is trying to limit the damage, saying the book was only released by supporters of the U.S. anti-abortion lobby to embarrass the conference. Why would the U.N. be embarrassed by a book they funded? Well, it turns out the U.N. only paid for it, they didn't actually have anybody read it.

 

At least, that's their story and they are sticking to it.

 

The U.N. said the book was "intended as a training manual for people working with adolescent women to prevent teen pregnancy." Got to give them credit there. I know of no pregnancies as a consequence of lesbian sex or sex with "inanimate" objects.