You're Teaching My Child What? Read Free

not jibe with what they see in the mirror.
    As you can imagine, sex educators believe that the “information” teens “need” to know is more explicit and disturbing. But by then, of course, if not earlier, they can go online themselves and check out the sites sexuality educators recommend, like Columbia University’s “Go Ask Alice.” I urge every adult whose life includes a young person to check out this award-winning site, one that gets over two thousand questions a week, and many more hits. On “Alice,” teens find excellent information about drugs, alcohol, diet, depression, and other health issues. But they also learn how to purchase “adult products” by phone, 21 arrange a threesome, 22 and stay “safe” during sadomasochistic “sex play.” 23
    Yes, madness—that’s the right word.
    With messages like this coming from websites recommended to our kids, it should come as no surprise that 34 percent of girls are sexually active by age fifteen. The figure goes up to nearly 80 percent four years later, with more than one-fifth of all fifteen- to nineteen-year-olds reporting two or more partners in the past year . Hey, they are exploring their sexuality; it’s only “natural.”
    But in these times, anyone “exploring” sexuality is at risk for some two dozen different bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi; and infection is likely to happen soon after sexual debut. Who suffers the most? Girls. One of the many facts withheld by “sex educators” is that teen girls are anatomically more vulnerable to sexually transmitted
diseases than boys. They also gloss over the fact that decades of sex education have taken our society from having essentially two sexually transmitted diseases to worry about (syphilis and gonorrhea) to having more than two dozen, including some incurable viruses, and one that’s often fatal: HIV. They deem it vital for kids to know there are not one, but three types of intercourse; apparently they don’t need to know that one of these is so dangerous that a surgeon general warned against it, even with a condom.
    An anonymous survey of 10,000 teen girls found they began having sexual intercourse on average at age 15. 30
    And this question is never, ever raised: what new bug is out there, spreading undetected, an epidemic in the making?
    There are some things you need to know about condoms—what sex educators call “protection.” Most teens do not use them correctly and consistently. Even with proper use, both pregnancy and infection can occur. That’s why so many health providers have given unwelcome news to young patients who insist, “ But we used a condom, every time!”
    These young victims are angry, because even after following the rules, after being responsible, they’re in trouble: using a condom gave them a false sense of security. 24 And need I mention that latex provides no protection against the emotional distress that often follows teen sexual behavior? As many have observed, condoms do not protect the heart, in particular the female heart. 25 That’s another thing SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and Columbia’s “Alice” never tell your daughter.
    Again, the priority of our nation’s sex educators is to promote sexual freedom, not prevent infections and emotional distress. In fact, as the numbers of infections reach ever more mind-numbing levels, these educators argue for more of last century’s methods. The solution to the epidemic is to teach more kids they are “sexual from womb to tomb,” encourage more teens to question their families’ values, and
to send trucks with even larger loads of contraceptives to middle schools—to be distributed without parental knowledge. Have they lost their minds?

Wake Up, America!
    You might think I’m bashing sex ed because I’m on the other side of the battle. Not exactly. Abstinence