Why Sex Education Will Never Work
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From a review of Kristin Luker’s When Sex Goes to School:
… The emotional intensity involved suggests much larger questions of gender and marriage, hierarchy and equality. Her interviewees cannot stick to the subject, digressing into disgust for “the 60’s” and “the gay lifestyle,” disdain for Christians, aversion to early marriage, shifting gender roles, and virtually any other social issue imaginable. One mother says she supports abstinence-only education because her husband raped her daughter. That’s the kind of rage being channeled into vitriolic arguments over whether 300 9-year-olds should be told that it’s OK to masturbate. …
Reason: If sex ed doesn’t work, what is everyone fighting about?