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Date: 13 September 2005 22:41:43
Taking the view that the licence fee effectively pays for the BBC whilst my Sky subscription pays for the rest I sometimes wonder if the licence fee is really worth it. Then you get a night like tonight and you realise yes, without terrestrial tv we wouldn't have things like the wonderful BBC2 history series What the Ancients Did For Us which took a look at The Mesopotomians tonight, recreating chariots and bricks amongst other things. Oh I know there is the History Channel, but somehow BBC2 (& Channel 4 programmes don't dumb it down as much, they simply make it accessible).
Following that you got the 2nd of the trio of No Sex Please We're Teenagers . Tonight was interesting, again for a number of reasons particularly the unease that one of the youth workers admitted she had about the whole Silver Ring Thing. If you want to find out more about the programme and peoples reactions to it there is a good discussion taking place on The Ship .
On a personal note I think the Silver Ring Thing is actually quite dangerous and buys into a whole Christian cultural thing which has caused and does cause loads of damage to some people by getting young people to make the wrong choices for moral reasons based on emotional selling of particular messages or worse still isolates them into cultures of silence when they choose to make alternative choices.
Don't get me wrong I fully believe that young people should be encouraged to only be sexually active within monogomous, faithful relationships but I don't agree that these should only be within marriage. I think we need to be realistic about things and realise that whilst some people may find the right partner in their first serious relationship it is unusual and so sex needs to be viewed within that context.