He says: "Yeah, well the media promotes sex like God knows what. Just look at the charts, young girls singing

things like 'I'm horny horny' or 'Oops, there goes my skirt' in the music vids. 'Course this is gonna influence them to think that having sex is what it's all about.
"Young minds are vulnerable. You need to really show what can happen with sex: I mean it's like playing Russian Roulette down there!"
Duane and his group are involved in making a sex health documentary for young black guys and girls. The video follows a young man into an STI clinic checkup.
The Playa's Klub is run by Blackliners and Noh Budget Films and funded by Lambeth Council. It is one of the first in the UK to get young black men discussing sex, condom use, what it's like to get herpes and how.
I talked to Duane and his three mates Danny, Denzil and and Oran. So, guys, what do you have to say about who's responsible? Girls or boys? Who should be insisting on wearing the condom then?
Duane: "Man, it's a two-way thing...If you're on it with a girl, you got no protection, then it's the girl who needs to say 'where's your shield?'"
Oran: "Yeah, but that's rubbish, girls are ashamed to take out a condom 'cos the guy will then think they're a prostitute or something. Like she has it a lot and she's come prepared."
"Well," butts in Denzil: "No girl I ever moved on has said to me 'Ooh I've got a condom."
But that's exactly why it's young girls that need to be educated, insists Danny: "Girls should take the lead."
Maybe it's a way of passing off responsibility, or maybe it's genuinely that they think it should be girls who have the power to insist.
"A lot of it is just confidence," concludes Denzil. "Young girls aren't confident to buy and carry condoms. And also, they just expect boys to have them."
Of course, adds Duane: "60 per cent of men keep their brains in their dicks, so this is why girls have

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got to be more sussed anyway."
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