Should you pretend to be your best mate .....

....so you can have sex with his girlfriend?

Footballers told sex rules in new AFL DVDArticle from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print Submit comment: Submit comment Michael Davis

February 21, 2008 05:55am
THE AFL is producing a DVD designed to improve players' attitudes toward women, and help them tackle "extraordinary situations".

Should you pretend to be your best mate so you can have sex with his girlfriend?

The answer might be self-evident but the AFL believes its players need to be instructed on how to handle this and other scenarios, and is producing an interactive DVD designed to improve player attitudes to women.

In one scenario, a player is called by his mate's girlfriend into her bedroom, as she thinks the player is her boyfriend.

The player is asked: "Do you: (a) go and hop into bed and pretend to be him or (b) do you walk away?"

In another example, a player is with a girl who has had too much to drink. "Do you: (a) get her some water, (b) call her a taxi or (c) take her back to your place for sex?"

In a third scenario, the player's mate and his girlfriend are having sex. "You can see them. Do you: (a) watch or (b) not watch?"

While refusing to release the text of the questions, the AFL yesterday confirmed draft questions and scenarios had been scripted.

The DVD - involving seven actors, 15 crew, and four days of shooting at the MCG and a private house - is aimed at educating players and increasing their respect for women.

AFL communications manager Patrick Keane said the DVD was part of the league's respect and responsibility program, introduced three years ago.

"The program deals with a number of things including attitudes to women, racial vilification, illicit drugs and responsible gambling," he said.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire supported the DVD.

"The point the AFL is trying to make is that young men come into football and they go from the year before not being able to get a date for the social to suddenly half the nightclubs throwing themselves at them," Mr McGuire said.

"They go from being very ordinary young boys living in the suburbs to be in extraordinary situations.
"I guess what the AFL is trying to do is just put these extraordinary situations to them so that they have actually been trained, that this is a response."

The program's co-ordinator, Melanie Heenan, for 15 years an expert in dealing with sexual assault, said the DVD was built around world's best practice.

"The scenarios that we've been depicting in this multimedia package depict situations that young people tell us more broadly in the community are difficult situations for them to negotiate," Dr Heenan told Melbourne radio.

"We do have large numbers of young people saying to us that they are engaging in sexual activity in situations where they have been drinking heavily or they've been taking other kinds of substances and they're making poor decisions.

"The idea is that we can build role-plays or scenarios that participants can engage in and that prompts their confident decision-making in situations that can be quite complex

these are indeed burning issues .. that need solutions NOW

embee wrote:....so you can have sex with his girlfriend?

Depends if your mate is Whitnall or Juddddddyyyyyyyyyyyy

Something I never had to think about - my mates lived off my crumbs.

smug chip

Mick Sawyer wrote:Something I never had to think about - my mates lived off my crumbs.

Crumbs? We call em 'slops' over here...

G.Wood wrote:smug chip

Of course I no longer let a crumb fall. You can see clearly where they've been stored.

Mick Sawyer wrote:Something I never had to think about - my mates lived off my crumbs.

I am a little surprised that they didn't have cousins of their own

Invader Zim wrote:

Mick Sawyer wrote:Something I never had to think about - my mates lived off my crumbs.

Crumbs? We call em 'slops' over here...

Begone my nightmares

G.Wood wrote:

Mick Sawyer wrote:Something I never had to think about - my mates lived off my crumbs.

I am a little surprised that they didn't have cousins of their own

Better late than never.

Gotta go. See ya men.