I guess this news makes that statistic a little more understandable:
In late October, the regional government of Extremadura in southwestern Spain launched a new sexual-education campaign designed to facilitate the "development of healthy habits, self-esteem and safety." Although the publicly funded campaign includes the publication of pamphlets and an online magazine, the highlight is a series of workshops for 14-to-17-year-olds aimed at educating participants on anatomy, body image, safe-sex practices, gender equality and, in the mildly celebratory words of an early press release (since redacted), "sexual self-exploration and erotic self-knowledge." Or, in other words, masturbation.
Kids these days with their video games and entrancing lava lamps! In my day and age all you needed was a color bra advertisement from a junk mail Sears catalog and it was off to the races. What worlds would have opened up with state funding?! Although I admit a state pamphlet might have taken the edge off, instead.
And Spanish teens need a freaking seminar just to identify the relevant body parts? What are they doing? Rubbing their elbows and shrugging their shoulders when nothing happens?
If Spanish kids haven't mastered this, what hope is there of actually bumping up that birth rate?
