19th February 2010, 10:16 AM
Good concept, bad execution. And full of stereotypes, I might add - notice how the virginal Wonder Vag is blonde and white? And Power Pap, with the STI, is dressed all slutty? Anyways, this isn't national healthcare in action. Not at all. This game is created by the Middlesex-London Health Unit and isn't something you'd see anywhere else in Ontario or in Canada. I'm willing to bet that the sex ed the vast majority of Canadians receive is on par with the lame, ineffectual, pointless sex ed taught to Americans. And the context in which you said healthcare is "National" in Canada is misleading because it implies complete and total government control over all healthcare-related matters, as if a bureaucrat in Ottawa is meticulously dictating the daily operations of a walk-in clinic in Richmond, B.C., or is the one who commissioned a misguided attempt at teaching kids about STIs in a single mission-based, community-based education program in Western Ontario. The provinces have a strong degree of autonomy over how they provide healthcare and, furthermore, individual healthcare regions within provinces are basically free to pursue healthcare matters as they wish (while still obviously having to maintain a certain standard). Sometimes that means seeing weird things like "Adventures in Sex City," which the Government has absolutely nothing to do with.