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Will They Never Learn?
02/21/2003

Although progressive "solutions" such as increasing sexual education and expanding provision of birth control and abortion for girls who should not yet be sexually active have led to a horrific state of affairs in England, the powers that be in the youth-sexualization industry continue to pile worse policy upon bad policy:

[A new course] aims to reduce promiscuity by encouraging pupils to discover "levels of intimacy", including oral sex, instead of full sexual intercourse.

More than 100,000 children are now taking the course at one in every thirty secondary schools. It forms part of efforts to tackle Britain’s teenage pregnancy rate, which is the highest in Western Europe.

I'm ever-more convinced that these problems follow directly from initial social choices that will be difficult, perhaps impossible, to unmake. In other words, improvement may require no less than a full admission that we have been wrong and a thorough assessment of how much of our current sexual thinking we can afford to keep.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 12:44 AM EST