5 Teenagers Got Pregnant from Playing "the Sun or the Star" Game with Their School Mates

Okay, this news is a bit hard core, especially since it comes from Poland, a country known to have a high rate of devout Christians and a country known to be opposed to modern fertility treatments due to religion-related reasons. Anyway, here comes the story... and to be honest, I was sick to my stomach when I first read it and now you will be sick to your stomach, too.

Young people, teenagers, both boys and girls (I won't call them men and women because obviously they are not) aged 14 to 15 played a sick game that they called "the sun or the star", and here is how it works: girls lay on the floor with their heads together, and they had to have their eyes closed, and then the boys "taking turns" — we don't, I'm sure, have to spell out at what. The winner was the boy who ejaculated the last: the one who managed to finishing the intercourse last. These were the exact words of one of the students involved in the sun or the star game. Sick!

Of course, since no contraceptives were used, the "game" resulted in several pregnancies. Five girls are known to have gotten pregnant as a result of these extracurricular activities, and (at the time of this writing) two girls from the group already gave birth. The school's headmaster wanted to cooperate with the authorities and to resolve the problem. On the other hand teachers, parents, and even more the teenagers themselves, were not interested in answering any questions in a community where sex is a taboo topic and no one talks about it.

There was no psychologist who would explain to the students that such games can lead to pregnancy, or to STD, including Chlamydia and HIV, for example. My opinion: where were the parents? The school is not the only one responsible for teaching kids the basics of reproductive health, such as to wear condoms. All of them together: parents, teachers, school, and the church should tell these kids what consequences certain actions have. 

This cases tragically highlights what can happen when children do not receive an adequate education on the topics of both reproductive health and health relationships. It shows, I think, what can happen when we keep children in the dark about matters that will touch their lives sooner or later. We all have a responsibility to ensure that children receive good-quality scientific instruction, and though these intimate topics are certainly taboo in some places, it is simply not acceptable to leave teenagers in a position where they do not have basic information about their own bodies.