People all around the world debate on how best to educate the youth about sex and how to practice it safely.
Many schools offer sexual education classes to help with this, but the debate still rages on.
The Catholic church considers contraceptives a sin. Italy is extremely influenced by this religion, so when a high school in Rome decided to put in a vending machine containing condoms, it was like pouring fuel on a fire.
The argument against these machines is that it will encourage teens to have sex, but the school argues that it won't, but rather will lead to safer sex and a reduction in unwanted pregnancy.
The decision was taken because of the rising number of HIV cases among young people, and to break a taboo still surrounding the use of condoms in Italy.
On average, Italian women have sex for the first time at age 16, according to SIGO, a group of Italian gynecologists and obstetricians. Almost four in 10 have unprotected sex the first time.
While this might be a big deal to Italians, many other European countries do this. France, for example, has these machines in nearly 96% of high schools. Whether this works is still debated. Still, it's hard to imagine that they could do more harm than good.
