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It may be an innocent enough racquet sport, but Hong Kong's Education Bureau has unintentionally given badminton a whole new meaning. 

In teaching materials it released last week, a module titled adolescents and intimate relationships for Secondary Year 3, suggested that teenagers who wanted to have sex with each other could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

The materials also include a form called "My Commitment" aimed at getting "young lovers" to attest that they would exercise "self-discipline, self-control, and resistance to pornography".

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[–] dylanmorgan 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Hey babe, want to whack my birdie?” “Give me that shuttlecock!”

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Me and your mom played doubles last night.

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This reminds me of the time, in college, when a Christian fellowship leader gave us all a list of alternatives to sex, including

  1. Passing chocolate from mouth to mouth
  2. Naked wrestling...
[–] T156@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Naked wrestling...

That just sounds like a euphemism for sex, not an alternative.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like he caught his parents as a kid, they said they are "naked wrestling"and he never questioned it

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

All boys campout with pastor Randy!

[–] Track_Shovel 8 points 2 weeks ago

The chocolate one sounds like a scat fetish

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That just sounds like a list of things to say to have plausible deniability.

[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 15 points 2 weeks ago

We finally figured out why Linus is so deep into badminton.

I blame the shuttlecock. It’s always the shuttlecock.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

"C'mon, girl. Lemme stick it in your bad mitten."

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

These modules FROM THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT look like a power point lesson plan that I would have done in college.

However, the learning goals are very progressive. This part is what should be taught about sex everywhere:

Whenever a behaviour occurs, it is often accompanied by an activating event (including people, circumstances, events) and a consequence.

Also, the unit on myths vs. reality. This is important stuff that doesn't get taught in the US, due to conservative prudes and it's my opinion that the sexually uneducated end up causing sexual abuse.

[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I admittedly haven’t read the material, but your quoted text sounds very vague and indirect. Perhaps there was more content that was more direct and concrete.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I wonder where you could look it up? Maybe in the link OP posted above. Or you could just comment and look stupid, it's up to you.

[–] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I admittedly chose the latter :)

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Admitting something is the first step in clicking the link before commenting.

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL it's not called "badmitten"

[–] ericatty@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Today I read your comment twice before I realized my brain had autocorrected all badminton to badmitton

[–] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Big time Mandela Effect.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

The "Challengers" sequel writes itself.

I played badminton with a friend and their girlfriend a few days ago. Guess in HK that'd pass as a euphemism.

[–] learningduck@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

In my country, they used to suggest playing football/soccer also. XD

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

First the badminton, then the sex.

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