Isn't she a little young?

Virginia ad campaign warns against sex with minors.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The blunt message will be pasted on billboards and barroom coasters across Virginia: "Isn't she a little young?" it will ask in bold pink and white lettering against a black backdrop. "Sex with a minor," the wording will continue. "Don't go there."

The Virginia Department of Health is launching a campaign in northern Virginia, Richmond and Roanoke to stop men from engaging in sex with underage girls. Health officials say they hope their program will reduce the number of pregnancies that result from such illegal conduct.

The campaign, to begin this month with the distribution of hundreds of thousands of coasters, cocktail napkins and postcard-size messages in Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church, is one of the few such programs in the nation, public health officials...

State officials hope to reach not only men engaged in such conduct but also their male friends, who could talk them out of it. They likened the effort to drunken driving campaigns that implore friends to monitor each other's drinking.

"What we're hoping is that men will start to check each other and basically say, `Dude, she's 16 -- you shouldn't be with her,' " said Robert Franklin, male outreach coordinator for sexual violence prevention at the Virginia Department of Health. Franklin helped initiate the campaign.

Are we men this far gone? Even if we are, it's not our fault. We have post-traumatic-man-disorder. We are victims of constantly seeing 16 and 17 year old girls dolled up like Vegas hookers. How are we supposed to resist? Seems to me, they should try a modesty ad campaign for teenage girls instead. Everyone knows men can't control themselves.