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The web may be a handy place to learn Klingon and the latest celebrity gossip but it isn’t always supplying the best sex education.
… Plenty of boys - some of them not so young - have asked McKay about the penis- enlarging pills hawked online, he says, and it can be difficult to convince them that such claims are “total snake oil.”
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And even the most suspect online information finds traction in school hallways, he says, mentioning a Florida study that found a substantial number of students believed Mountain Dew could be used as a contraceptive aid.
Both are examples of that pernicious will to believe. Youths want to believe they can get a bigger cock and prevent fatherhood without effort.
Internet `snake oil’ boosts need for sex ed in school, teachers say.