YOUTH TASK FORCE BLOG

Contrary to what television and the media have portrayed, sex is not a shameful thing. There I have said it, there is nothing to be shameful about.

No one is saying to go on a sex rampage ala Gossip Girl or 90210 in the name of freedom but hey, these shows at times portray a skewed outlook on sex. Sex only becomes so when you choose for it to be.

Last year, I posted a video here of a trip I took to Nepal back in 2010. There were plenty of things I’ll remember about that visit - like the explosive double-ended food poisoning I got there, or how smelly all my clothes were by the time I got back - but I think the thing that'll stick in my mind more than anything else is the country's attitude to sexuality and contraception.

Who requested me again? I see, Conny from back then. From 7th until 9th grade we’ve been BFFs, but suddenly only hate was connecting us. Why was that again? ... Forgot. I discreetly ignore her friend request. In the end all those people from school are just contacting me because they discovered me on TV or in some newspapers in the last few years. "Gosh, my old friend Claire is famous now!" That you actually never got along with each other is forgotten in a hurry.

I have a friend who lives in a small town near Rio de Janeiro who found herself in a very difficult situation about two months ago. She is 22 and had almost graduated from Law School. Then she discovered she was pregnant. Her parents didn't even know she had a boyfriend.

Getting together with a big group of friends can be wicked fun and stuff. Hangin’ out, eatin’ spray cheez, right out of the can. Talkin’ politics, watching Justin Beebs on YouTube. Yeah, life as a teenager is pretty much all fantasmico right? NOPE! All of a sudden one of your friends (Josh) gets a surge of hormones and screams.

“WHOAAAAAA! GUYS, LETS TALK ABOUT SEX! I HAVE HAD SEX LIKE A BILLION TIMES AND I WANT TO BRAG ABOUT IT, RIGHT NOW!”

As one of the most ancient populations in the world, we Chinese had our fair share of stupid ideas about sex. We used to believe that a woman becomes irresistible to men the second she sprays herself with the pee of an ovulating weasel. There were tons of stories about how pee-smelling foxy women seduced Princes, owned kingdoms after slaughtering the Princess and got rid of all weasels in the country so no other could repeat this process. However, key questions in the story were never addressed: how do you know if the weasel you just caught is ovulating? Do you have to try a number of them till one works? How come the Prince was never warned about pee-smelling women trying to get close to him? How come there are still so many weasels today after repeated weasel genocide throughout history?

Welcome to another Youth Task Force metablog. You know how these things work by now, right? We tell about all the adventures that the glamorous YTF members have been up to and you stand back, awed and impressed. And then I tell you that the most exciting thing to happen to me is that I found a half-price meat pie in a supermarket three weeks ago, and you all feel a bit sorry for me. Ready?

I recently caught up with a good friend of mine from grade school. Throughout those years we grew to know each other very well. Being a teen wasn’t easy, and now that I'm older, it’s interesting to look back and see how certain things could have been much easier if we had received more accurate advice.