So, it’s not really that good to talk after all

In March, the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) spent a chunk of its £5.3 million annual budget on an advertising campaign aimed at teenagers entitled: "Sex - don't just do it, think it through". It can be said with almost absolute certainty that this did not delay a single act of adolescent intercourse by as much as a millisecond.

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