There’s a lot inherently icky and wrong about this story but also a lot inherently logical and decent. Condom manufacturers Life Styles have offered fifteen year old Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus one million dollars to shoot a commercial spot for the rubber giant. Naturally, she’s refused, but the offer remains on the table, as well as a promise of free rubbers for life once she turns eighteen.
According to E! Online, a rep for the company explained the offer, saying “Pop culture proves that teens are more willing than ever to discuss the subject of sex.” I’m sure most of you find this entire offer to be a cheap attempt to whore off Miley’s mega-fame (it is), but unprotected sex among teenagers is a serious issue. Regardless of what Jesus, your mom, and Dr. James Dobson might say, high schoolers have always and will continue to awkwardly experiment with sex. Abstinence only education is a bullshit, utopian remedy which has unequivocally failed. We need a new approach, and Miley Cyrus shelling out condom recommendations would be a good start.
Wrap up your shit, people. There’s nothing cool about rushing him from baseball practice to care for a toddler or getting Penicillin shots to fight off the syph.
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Time out! Do any of you even have your facts straight? The average teen in America "engages" at 13.6 years old. Teen pregnancy rates have hit an all time high, even though condom sales rose 25% last year alone. The #1 killer for 25-44 year old's is AIDS, so when do you think they contract HIV, when they are teens!! I personally live in Oklahoma, you know the bible belt, where abstinence is the key, wrong again, my state has been in the top 3 in teen pregnancy rates the last 20 years, you think that message is working? It is unfortunate that narrow mind individuals like yourselves wish it was still the 50's, well wake up cause it's not! It's adult's like yourselves who instill fear into teenagers that it is not okay to have sex before marriage and they will go to hell if they do, those are the same kids who don't buy condoms, and either get pregnant as a teen or even worse have an abortion. If you want Americas future to be brighter you need to focus on the present and not live in the past! Youth are bombarded with music with sex, T.V. shows with sex, Movies with sex, Commercials with sex, simply sex sells! You expect are youth to not have sex, ha,ha,ha,ha! Oh, and sense when is having sex illegal? If I'm 15 and she's 15 what, come on, this is why America is not moving forward yet falling backwards cause our Adult's are stuck in time! WAKE UP IT'S THE 21'ST CENTURY!!!!!!
well, actually Nick, I agree with Joseph.
She is only 15 (still) and even if it were to promote contraception, she herself is against sex before marriage. Personally I have no idea why they even asked her.
What a way to make little girls even think about such things. Girls need to stop growing up so fast. ..and by even thinking of promotion condoms using a young teen icon, is not good. Yes, it is illegal. Even if teens do it, in a way promoting condom use with someone like Miley is infact envouraging underage sex. So, good on you Joseph for speaking your mind.
umm joesph i think you need to look at the laws again. One there is no legal age on condoms, that is spelt NONE. Two kids using condoms is alot better then teenage mothers/ fathers running around. There is a reason condoms are legal for all ages, if a couple (of any age) is going to have sex then atleast they have that option, taking away that option doesnt mean that they wont.
And wow your a teenager, didn't see that one coming.... Anyway depending on your state (im in md so thats where my info is), teenagers can have sex... actually i guess if you want to get technical then anyone could... Md states that if the the couples ages are within 3 yrs (i.e: 19 & 16) then its legal, or if the gaurdian approves of the relationship (dont think age matters nemore). Also theres atleast one state where if your under 16 (i think) then as long as the girl is pregnant then they can actually be married.
rofl far as the comment about registering as a sex offender.... america's laws have become a joke, anyone can be labeled anything now, hell i could falsify evidence that you murdered so and so but that doesn't mean u did... how does this relate? things happen and the truth isn't always known, so try and, make sure in the future you know all the details before doing anything......
You know i thought you were christian at first but then changed my mind after reading your comment about the jocks. If you are religous at all then you should think about how the bible preaches to forgive ( i assume some asshole jock once gave u a hard time) and that god loves all his children equally and dont hate n something else.... So who are you to suddenly say that someones life doesnt mean anything anymore just b/c they are a jerk.
Now i don't have a problem with you posting on here, but seriously think first. I try not to go up to you,or anyone else, and ramble on about my beliefs b/c they are just that.... mine if some one else asks for them then ill gladly tell them but i dont just start attacking so and so, and w.e. group just b/c i dont like them
Neway not trying to preach just hope you take the time to educate yourself in the future
This is deplorable! Having a 15 year old advertise a condom company is stupid. Teens SHOULDN"T be having sex! It is illegal. If there is proof, the older member of the couple can be regististered as a pedophile. How disgusting to take a relatively uncorrupted young person and use her to advertise a product she can't legally use. Teens don't need sex, or condoms. We need the truth. High school behavior like that is unnescessary. I don't have sex, and I haven't dropped dead. Don't tell me about 'puppy love' and 'experimentation'. THere is no such thing as love in a relationship with a child that includes sex. Even if both people are children. If Miley was stupid enough to accept the deal, thousands of people would let go of their relatively weak self control and become more, pitiful statistics. Hopeless casualties in a war against mutual dehumanisation. Sure, there may people too weak to escape peer pressure and urges, but having a person like Miley do the add would only create more of them. More pedophiles and willing victims. Never able to erase the history, that they didn't care (or know) to wait for their spouces. If some jock gets syphilus, I don't care. But, I don't want to even imagine the number of children die at the hands of hitmen in white coats. All the young people silencing the tiny live within them. When they get oldersome may not get a crap about their children, but others have to bear the pain of knowing a murder took place inside them. They may be more aware of condoms, but condoms break, and aren't always used correctly. Sometimes not at all. I don't respect the concept, and as a solution for these problems it is cheap and lazy. MIley and Hannah's fans are CHILDREN. So thank you Life Styles for bastardising the concept of childhood and trying to use a child to do it. I certainly hope you depraved piles of slease are happy with your selves.
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