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Haunted House Wants Safer Teen Sex
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II,
Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Teen-agers may have outgrown their fear of ghouls and goblins, but health officials believe their haunted house has something far scarier: gonorrhea and genital warts.

Hoping to combat one of the nation's highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, city health officials have staged the ``STD Free! Haunted House.''

As visitors make their way through a dimly lit, S-shaped maze, they view startling, full-color photos of canker sores and genital warts on male and female genitalia infected with syphilis, chlamydia or gonorrhea. An empty casket at the end sends a message that death awaits anyone who does not practice safe sex.

``We want to scare their pants back on,'' said Elizabeth Frazier, a registered nurse at Tennessee State University's health center. ``We encourage abstinence. But if they can't do that, then use protection.''

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Okie-dokie-pokie(did I spelled that right?)
I realy don't know what to say cept, thats very odd.

[Goldeneye]

That's terrifying, sick, disgusting, and...I mean, come on, who the hell would knowingly go to that damn thing???  That's the sort of thing a high school health teacher would organize a pop field trip for.  That's...yeah, it sounds effective, but there's something inescapably sick about that.  

Damn.  

[The_Rocketeer]

Still, it's good to see in this day and age that we universally can agree this haunted thing is indeed one of the strangest wastes of time any of us has ever heard of, and that's really saying something for this crowd.  

[Vermillion]

OOOOO KKKKKK.....

One question though: What does this have to do with breasts?  Do they think breasts cause herpes or something?    

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sure, it's off-topic.  i could tell you that i posted it as an ironic comment on the sort of well-intentioned but heavy-handed governmental scariness that seems to have become the norm in america since september 11th.  (it's the american way: when all else fails, scare the crap out of your kids.)

but really, i just thought it was horribly, painfully funny, and wanted to share.  by the time i got to the part about the full-color photos of canker sores and genital warts on syphilitic genitalia, i was ROFL.
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[ATClown]

It's not well advertised, at any rate.  It's the first I've heard of the effort.  And considering you can't swing a dead cat without hearing a haunted house commercial on Nashville radio

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Effective, impacting, creative, and original. Great! Where's this thing again?