University Videogame Will Teach Girls to Say "No" to Sex

[Blatherscythe]

So we're wasting taxpayer money to teach kids how to avoid underage sex, in short teaching them with an expensive crap game to avoid sex when they know they shouldn't, something, I don't know, maybe their parents should be doing? I don't give a fuck about your kid, that's why it's your kid! I don't care about your children and I sure as hell don't want to pay for something that does your job as a parent for you. Take some god-damn responsibility for your children, if you don't trust them to aviod unsafe, underage sex then why the fuck do you let them go unattended to a party? No one is going to raise your kids for you! God-damn this is a waste of money, I don't know any pre-teen girls who would play something like this.

So there you have it. Parnets don't want to teach their kids about sex so they make a "Fun, interactive and informative" game to teach them, a game that will ultimatly be used by gamers to laugh at the results, by mormons and religious nut-jobs to brainwash their children with sex being evil and bad and boys only want sex from you and by creepy pedophiles who'll get the most entertainment from it because their going to jack off the whole fucking time.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

The fact that this is federally funded makes it painfully obvious that this is a pork-barrel project, allocating tax dollars to the creation of something that nobody wants, needs, or will ever be aided by, in order to pay the friends of some government official for making it.

Shit like this is the reason why I'm starting to straight-up hate my government.

 

[hurfdurp]

It should target the source, allegedly pre-teen boys. Videogame teaches boys not to rape!

 

[Danglybits]

And exactly 0% of the people will use it. No one wants to play a crappy psa game. This is a waste of the American tax payers money.

*EDIT* Haha, I just noticed the image is from Fox News.

Yup, pretty much that. I'm sure they justified it to taxpayers by saying that it will cut down on teen pregnancies and the cost there of. Which might be a good thing, if someone came up with a better way of getting to the demographic than through a bad example of a medium pre-teen girls aren't that interested in in the first place.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Seeing the headline i at first thought it was aimed at female university students! well now it at least makes a tiny bit of sense. Well but still, it wont work.If the girl is really that weak that she feels pressed to have sex, it probably wont help to say "well no SIR my video game said i should deny your approach! well yeah they all will go away, kicking stones down the road and return to their modell-planes.
And avoiding this pressure from the other teens, is the job of either the parents and/or good friends. And not of video games.
I havent got my drivers licence by playing Midtown Madness or learned how to shoot from Doom.
I got my rides to the clubs from my friends and got my first shots bought by my brothers

 

[2fish]

"Greetings fair maiden, would you care to partake in the act of casual fornification?"
"I am afraid I must decline, fine sir."

Pah to this game. PAH!

I bet you just outdid their writers. Lesson one you are nothing but your virginity, it is the only thing about you of value. Lesson two obey your father so he may marry to to a good family.

It might just be more cost effective to install a condom at birth that lasts 18 years? Maybe bring back the chastity belts?

 

[Stoic raptor]

Well, if parents and school cannot convince a pre-teen to not have sex, how can a video game do it.

If it is going to be realistic, will it be rated AO? If it is, I guarantee sales will skyrocket.

And that picture of the game looks ugly.

 

[Trivun]

And exactly 0% of the people will use it. No one wants to play a crappy psa game. This is a waste of the American tax payers money.

*EDIT* Haha, I just noticed the image is from Fox News.

And what about if they introduce it in schools? That's the easy way to get people to play it. Instead of the boring crappy lessons where the teacher writes stuff down on the whiteboard and lectures the class, integrate something like this into the lessons. Here in the UK we have compulsory PSHE lessons (Physical, Sexual and Health Education) and at my old school we had to sit through these as the teachers droned on. However, when they realised it was doing no good (especially after a bunch of kids were expelled for dealing marijuana - bearing in mind I was at a grammar school, which are usually the best of the best), they changed the format. They showed videos in the class and had group discussions and made the lessons interactive, like having the class discuss different drugs and their affects and teaching us how to put condoms on (by using bananas, oddly enough). And it worked.

Integrating videogames like this in the classroom is a good idea, will get the message across in an enjoyable way, and people are guaranteed to play it if it's part of the class itself. There's no problem then that people won't play a "crappy PSA game". Instead, problem solved .

 

[Vhite]

STOP THE HUMAN REPRODUCTION SYSTEM!

 

[Space Jawa]

What an age we live in now where gaming can take over for that petty annoyance that some of us considered 'Parenting'.

You say that like this is a new development. The whole "Parents can't parent their own kids! We have to do it for them!" and "We can't parent our own kids! Someone do it for us!" thing has been on the rise for some time now, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Chamale]

With the right team of developers, this would be a great game if you play to lose.

Imagine! It could be like Postal 2, but with sex instead of violence. It's possible to go through the whole game without it, but the game is more fun when have as much of it as possible...

 

[Marik2]

Huh... well if it's actually made well, it could be good. About time we had something teaching teens not to give in to pressure instead of freely throwing out condoms and telling them to have fun. But if the game sucks, it'll do little good.

No its a really bad idea to let technology teach kids about life.

[HEADING=1] PARENTS NEED TO STOP LETTING THE GOVERNMENT OR OTHER FORMS OF MEDIA TEACH THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT SEX!!! [/HEADING]

Parents these days dont have the balls to talk to their kids about sex, drugs, and violence.

And it truly makes me sad. -_-

 

[Alpha1Niner]

This looks ridiculously corny. If they want to pull it off they need to try something more subtle. Get the message across without really telling them what it is.

 

[Jared]

Well...I can think of worse ways to spend my money but still...this is up there...why? Why not just do whatever one else does and do it in General Studies?

 

[elricik]

What if the girls want to give into the pressure? Do they lose points? Way to go for pushing your morality onto people goverment.

 

[darkknight9]

Parents buy the game for their daughter... she goes off to college, buys booze, game forgotten.

Coming soon to a campus near you.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

Though this little experiment will probebly never get off of the ground... It could further hurt my chances of solving my virginity... DAMN! Why is the world so cruel!

And when i though College and University was gonna be fun! so much for education! *Sarcasm*

 

[ultimateownage]

And exactly 0% of the people will use it. No one wants to play a crappy psa game. This is a waste of the American tax payers money.

*EDIT* Haha, I just noticed the image is from Fox News.

And what about if they introduce it in schools? That's the easy way to get people to play it. Instead of the boring crappy lessons where the teacher writes stuff down on the whiteboard and lectures the class, integrate something like this into the lessons. Here in the UK we have compulsory PSHE lessons (Physical, Sexual and Health Education) and at my old school we had to sit through these as the teachers droned on. However, when they realised it was doing no good (especially after a bunch of kids were expelled for dealing marijuana - bearing in mind I was at a grammar school, which are usually the best of the best), they changed the format. They showed videos in the class and had group discussions and made the lessons interactive, like having the class discuss different drugs and their affects and teaching us how to put condoms on (by using bananas, oddly enough). And it worked.

Integrating videogames like this in the classroom is a good idea, will get the message across in an enjoyable way, and people are guaranteed to play it if it's part of the class itself. There's no problem then that people won't play a "crappy PSA game". Instead, problem solved .

Yeah, we have the pshce thing too. It had no impact whatsoever, they all just think of it has a joke. The interactivity made it no better. Besides, how are they going to get a whole school to play one game? It would require a hell of a lot of organisation and/ or systems to do it.

 

[Susan Arendt]

I'd like to be the first to note the "fox news" logo on the bottom left hand.

And as for this, whatever happened to parents talking to their kids about sex, safe sex, and the magic word "no"?

Right. Because kids always listen to their parents' advice.