Should Schools Have ‘Safe Sex Rooms’?

Editorial
Should Schools Have ‘Safe Sex Rooms’?

February 5, 2002

We’ve always wondered why the extremists at the Globe don’t demand “Safe Sex Rooms” in every high school.

The recent news about the statutory rape of girls at Braintree High Schoolmakes us wonder why they’re not promoting them yet.

After all, with people such as us at MassNews saying that teenagers should be abstinent as they were in the ’50s, this puts tremendous pressure on the students. Where can a child of one of us out-of-date parents go to have the sex which every child is encouraged to enjoy?

Such a place would have worked perfectly in this case. These girls could have indulged in sex in a safe atmosphere. If one of them had changed her mind, she could have pushed a panic button and someone would immediately have come to her aid.

Or better yet, we could have volunteer teachers who would watch the sex by one-way mirrors that would not interfere with the sense of privacy.

And when any teacher volunteered for such duty, we would immediately have a list of potential perverts who might be molesting the teenagers.

It’s probably not too late to ask Cheryl Jacques to introduce a special bill requiring that there be “Safe Sex Rooms” in every school in the Commonwealth. Then we could get going with this concept immediately instead of waiting for the Globe to spring it on us a few years from now.