marlborobarbie: And btw, whyyyy would anyone let a youngin talk about this kind of stuff in front of other youngins? There were hundreds of kids there too little to understand what it is...oooh boy.
Exactly. Lol! It reminds of something that happened when I was young and exploring different religions. I attended a born-again church for a few months and one Sunday they had a visiting pastor. He unexpectedly gave the sermon on the topic of the dangers of masturbation.
The church members were horrified. Horrified! Lol! They talked about it for days afterwards - every time I ran into someone on the street or wherever, that had heard the sermon, they expressed their dissatisfaction. They called it the Big M word. The regular pastor apologized the next Sunday.
I thought it was funny - it was nothing out of the ordinary as far as I was concerned - the JWs talk about masturbation and sex all the time from the platform. But not the born agains!
I think it is hilarious that the masturbation bit is the part that was selected to insert into a news article about the convention.
But, how horribly embarrassing for the teen. And the young people attending. A totally inappropriate subject to assign to a young person to talk about in front of hundreds of people - and then have it reported on in the newspaper.