Maybe it's because we're writers and editors by trade, but when we saw the photo of this sign, which hangs in a hospital in Northampton, England, our first thought was, Doesn't anybody copyedit anymore?! And our second thought was, Since when did the U.K.'s esteemed National Health Service start taking its sex advice from Catholic school girls? Apologies to any Catholic school girls (and boys, for that matter) out there who never popped their anal cherry, but we always heard that the word amongst horny Catholic teens was that anal sex didn't "count" and was therefore safe and sinless. The idea being, it can't get you pregnant, so you can indulge in a little backdoor loving without the "sin" of contraception.

Of course, middle-aged horny Catholics could apply the same "logic" to their sex life, too--perhaps you simply don't hear about this because no one really gets off on imagining middle-aged Catholics doing it doggie style. Because, in all likelihood, this anal sex "epidemic" is nothing more than wishful thinking by dirty old men who still drool over Britney's Catholic school girl video.

Either way, the logic behind the "trend" is certainly wishful thinking, because you can, in fact, get pregnant as a result of anal sex. It's called "splash back," in case you were wondering. Sure, it's incredibly rare, but nonetheless we do feel a professional responsibility to bring it up. That all said, we're kind of impressed that anyone--even a dirty old man--would even attempt to reclassify saucy, taboo-busting butt sex as a kinder, gentler, more heavenly way of getting it on.