What more can be said about organizing some quality sex education around this place?
I've had my say more than once (like here, and here) so I'll defer to a few other experts on the subject...
Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
Jocelyn Elders
America's new Puritans need to learn a history lesson about the impotence of preaching their version of sexual morality to young people. If they can't learn from [Puritan Pastor] Jonathan Edwards, then educators, parents, teenagers, and health professionals have to prevent them from gaining control over our educational institutions.
Alan Singer
Education with inert ideas is not only useless, it is above all things harmful.
A. N. Whitehead
In modern times, the method of imparting sex knowledge to children by means, in the first place, of botony, has been generally advocated
California State Journal of Medicine, 1914
There may be a sillier strategy for dealing with sex among teens than promoting the choice of "abstinence-only-until-marriage," but I am not quite sure what it is. Not only is such an approach contradicted by everything that medicine and science know about teens and sex, but it flies directly in the face of everything all ordinary Americans know about teens and sex.
Arthur Caplan
P.S. The TIME cover is from 1986. It would have been nice if we could have gotten somewhere on Charlie Brown's questions since then, or since 1686 for that matter...
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