The mystery
of sex education is that parents put up with it at all. It began about
50 years ago, on the pretext that it would reduce unmarried teen
pregnancies and sexual diseases. Every time these problems got worse,
the answer was more sex education, more explicit than before.
Since
then, unmarried pregnancies have become pretty much normal, and sexual
diseases – and the ‘use’ of pornography – are an epidemic.
It
is only thanks to frantic free handouts of ‘morning after’ pills and an
abortion massacre that the number of teenage mothers has finally begun
to level off after decades in which it zoomed upwards across the graph
paper.
In a normal, reasonable society, a failure as big as this would cause a change of mind. Not here.
If
you try to question sex education, you are screamed at by fanatics.
This is because it isn’t, and never has been, what it claims to be. Sex
education is propaganda for the permissive society. It was invented by
the communist George Lukacs, schools commissar during the insane
Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, to debauch the morals of Christian
schoolgirls.
It
works by breaking taboos and by portraying actions as normal that would
once have been seen as wrong. Last week we learned that the Government
has officially endorsed material which says sex at 13, ‘for those of
similar age and developmental ability’, is normal.
This
is, no doubt, a point of view. In a free society, people are entitled
to hold it, even if it is rather creepy. But do you want your child’s
school to endorse it? And how does it square with our incessant frenzied
panic about child sex abuse?
If
we are so keen on the innocence of the young – and I very much think we
should be – then surely this sort of radical propaganda is deeply
dangerous. We do not give schools this huge power over the minds of the
young for such a purpose.
How
odd it is that we teach 13-year-olds to go forth and multiply, but
can’t somehow teach them their times tables. Shouldn’t it be the other
way round?
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