Bonosex? Must... resist... obvious... U2... joke...

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Ticket to ride
A Green party proposal for vouchers to help young Spaniards lose their virginity in private has caused outrage, reports Giles Tremlett
Tuesday May 13, 2003

A Spanish tradition is under threat and conservative members of the community are angry. Nothing new there, except that the tradition is something the same people usually disapprove of - the time-honoured practise, for those living with their parents, of having their first sexual encounters in the backs of cars, on the beach or in a secluded patch of countryside.

A radical new proposal from the Green party in the southern city of Granada would see the introduction of a controversial new youth sex voucher, the so-called "bonosex", to give amorous young couples aged 25 or under a 50% discount in the city's hotels.

The vouchers would allow young people to initiate their sex lives in "dignified" surroundings, rather than in the cramped, uncomfortable and clandestine places they were normally forced to use, according to a party spokesman.

Although the proposal has been greeted with a mixture of incredulity and outrage, the Green party candidate for mayor at the May 25 elections, Francisco Garrido, insisted he was serious about the vouchers.

"Happiness, well-being and autonomy are very important," he explained. "It's about emotional democracy."

Imagine how popular Ralph Nader would be if he proposed this...