America's problem with sex education

America's problem with sex education
Given the comic failure of abstinence-only – 95% of Americans have premarital sex – isn't it time the US got over its hangup?

Daniel Denvir
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011


Though most American youth continue to learn about sex most everywhere but in school, there is some good news: according to a recent report from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), the Obama administration and Congress in 2010 eliminated two thirds of federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage education, and, in a historic shift, allocated close to $190m for comprehensive sex education.

At the local level, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the implementation of a comprehensive citywide sex ed program this spring. Previously, whether a child received science-based sex ed or nothing at all was an enrollment roll of the dice: some principals ran good programs; others did not.

The proposed curriculum has sparked a rightwing backlash (flames fanned, in part, by the New York Post). Some parents are apparently angry that one approved website discusses pornography, swinger clubs and (dear Jesus) foot fetishes.

Bloomberg, for good policy and for ill, is a steamroller. But other cities lag far behind, including school districts that don't preach abstinence-only. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/02/america-problem-sex-education

you have to question what century your in when this seems to be an issue with the right. Who would not want their teenage informed in sex education.

It doesn't fit their memes.

when they could find common ground in the War on Sex with those evil anti american MUSLIMS they keep raising fear about. Conservatives know they'd lose their faces over the issue so they'd NEVER dare say "make casual sex a crime."