GI Jonny and Captain Bareback
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This video, produced by BBC Learning and the Terence Higgins Trust, has been branded “disgusting” and “degrading” by the National Confederation of Parent Teachers Associations and Mediawatch-UK. It is part of a safe-sex awareness programme aimed at 16-24 years olds.
With its rapid-fire double entendres and stop-action hero style it appears to hit its age-band target spot on. So it is hardly surprising that bone-headed prudes don’t get it.
David Turtle of Mediawatch-UK tells Metro:
This film is degrading to women and encourages casual sex and normalises certain kinds of sexual behaviour.
There is no hint of a loving relationship in this film. It is highly irresponsible of the BBC.
What a load of slimy spoff.
ROLOL! Phew. Looks like I’m not a bone-headed prude in spite of my 44 years!
Update: I asked a bunch of my 40+ and 50+ friends (one of whom lost a brother to the virus) and they all thought it was marvellous. I can’t wait for the next episodes.
It might hit the target spot on and I have no problem with it portraying casual sex but it sure does nothing to empower young women and in its desire to appeal to young heterosexuals it stereotypes and associates gay men with “evil” as well as simplistically branding all sex without a condom and anal sex as evil. They could have produced witty appealing ethical health promotion without resorting to these crude stereotypes and simplicity.
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