I think sex education should include enhancing a girl's sexual self-image and self-esteem, and give her the tools to say "no", and ultimately "yes", when the time is right.
ANITA H. CLAYTON, Book World live discussion, Feb. 13, 2007
The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, Mar. 2001
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.
BENJAMIN SPOCK, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
WILLIAM H. MASTERS, NBC TV, Aug. 16, 1971
Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.
BEVERLY MICKENS, Women's Lip
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
BILL COSBY, The Joplin Globe, Apr. 7, 2007
Will sex education reduce or end AIDS, adolescent pregnancy, prostitution, sexual exploitation? Frankly, we do not know. But silence on sexual matters does not appear to be an option either ideologically or practically. Ideologically, ignorance is no advantage when others have knowledge, especially knowledge misused, and people who know nothing of sex can take risks unknowingly and be taken advantage of.
MARTHA CORNOG, For Sex Education, See Librarian
Although parents and schools should be the basic providers of sound sex education, they seldom are. This leaves the library as the only source of sex education for young people, unless we want to abandon the job to sexploitation movies, rock lyrics, graffiti, and the dubious counsel of peers.
PATRICIA J. CAMPBELL, Sex Guides
Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.
PEPPER SCHWARTZ, Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children
You cannot have sex education without saying that sex is natural and that most people find it pleasurable.
BRUNO BETTELHEIM, "Our Children Are Treated Like Idiots," Psychology Today, Jul. 1981
Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
BENJAMIN SPOCK, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
We parents need to do a better job of educating our adolescents about sex. The countries with low rates of teen pregnancy and low rates of STDs deal with sex more openly. It is not uncommon for adolescents to talk frankly and frequently about sex with their families and in schools. It's ironic that these more open societies have fewer problems associated with adolescent sexual activity, because much parental resistance to sex education in the United States is predicated on the notion that it will lead to more teen sex. American parents fear that if teachers talk to teens about sex in a classroom, the information will somehow trigger their interest in it--as if teens have not heard of sex before taking a health class on it.
DAVID WALSH, Why do they Act That Way?
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