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Since the government has so much extra cash these days, a $434,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services goes to... video game development.  Not just any game, this one is geared toward Hispanic kids age 12-15 years.  It will place them in a virtual world of sexual situations.  The ultimate goal, they say, is to reduce pregnancy and disease among that segment of the population.

As if real-life pressures for young girls to have sex were not bothersome enough, now the federal government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a video game simulating situations where preteens are thrust into sexual situations.

The National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $434,000 grant to the University of Central Florida to develop a video game for Hispanic children ages 12 to 15 that will use avatars to simulate sexy situations.

University nursing professor Anne Norris and university computer-science professor Charles Hughes will work with the university's Institute for Simulation and Training for two years on the project.

"A boy similar in age might approach the person playing the game and ask her to make out or there might be some sexual innuendo," Norris told Fox 35 News.

Players will wear a motion-capture suit to control movement of the life-size avatars.

"It's a place to practice where there aren't any social consequences," Norris said.

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No social consequences, eh?  Riiiiiight. Consequences don't always materialize just in the physical realm.  The mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects can't be ignored.  Also, who's to say this will not be abused by some teenager who wants to "practice" with ulterior motives?  Hey, at least there won't be pole dancing class.