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convictions romantic fiction not to educate his readers is both condescending and meaningless

And in other news, it was announced that romantic literature has failed miserably to provide women with advice on contraception. In a widely observed by the Journal

family planning and reproductive health , Susan Quilliam one, gifted self-publicist and "sexual health professionals" said a cavalier attitude to safe sex in fiction romance relates, "worrying", with negative attitudes toward condom use among female readers.

Set aside, for now, the fact that one study found that Quilliam correlation does not prove anything about romantic fiction and safe sex - interested readers will find it difficult to quarrel with its central point, that these novels supply at least in reproductive pointers books written by professionals in sexual health. Similarly, unless changes have occurred recently, it contains some elements of plot, characters, story and suspense, but as noted Quilliam is the same escape from romantic fiction that encourages psychosexual problems .

"good", for "it is much more aware of the real world of today - the female characters have jobs, the male characters are sensitive and responsive, both face challenges such as addiction, disability, single parents or domestic violence - even a dip net avoidance, perfectionism, and through the idealization of the type "

And not only through this kind - far more damaging, interested parents may think, is the total disregard for reproductive health awareness in the literature for young readers. Perhaps we can forgive this lack of care in a story like The Hobbit

, but its publication coincided with a large number of unprotected sex, or The Secret Garden , although the relationship between Mary and Dickon charge.

But given his obvious affection and respect for young adults and the importance of early intervention, it is regrettable that JK Rowling forgot to tighten a single lesson on sexual health in the calendar Harry Potter Hogwarts. As expected, in the books later, we find students of 17 years, often traveling the world in small bands, unaccompanied, standing at considerable risk. Remember the scene in a tent in more detail in the last film where Harry dances with Hermione? Only memories of Ron Weasley and Hermione seems to be between the strong possibility of a magician teen pregnancy. Hope that Rowling read Quilliam and seize the opportunity in his new website, Pottermore to fill this gap, even if only with a new spell - condomiamus, for example, or delayed HPV vaccine Hermione, although Parents are likely to prefer a dedicated new teacher, the task of education of sexual health throughout the academy.

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general illiteracy is still a work in progress, which should help the Conservatives are moving so quickly to destroy the lending library has, for generations, has been an important source of this uneasiness romantic . "Close to the library and save 10 local women of unwanted pregnancies," is probably closer to the Minister of the library abject, Ed Vaizey is likely to lead to a war cry. Too bad for Quilliam, however, and Vaizey, his work has coincided with another diagnosis, by a fellow psychologist, in the sense that fiction is actually good for you. Promoting his new book stuff as dreams: The psychology of fiction
on Radio 4 last week, Professor Keith Oatley said the reading of fiction people helped of "social understanding" and help in the form of a flight simulator, with the development of empathy. "The more time passes, the closer you are to understand other people"