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Where today’s sex ed came from… and why it matters
Live Action News ^ | May 3, 2025 | Sheena Rodriguez

Posted on 05/12/2025 1:33:53 PM PDT by Morgana

Many parents believe sex education is simply part of a standard education, but a closer look at its origins paints a disturbing picture of its true nature. Few are aware that some of the power players in sex education today have an extensive history with the porn industry, direct ties to a researcher who recruited pedophiles for his ‘research,’ and ties to a man who wanted to destigmatize bestiality.

Many of the founders and originating leaders of SIECUS (originally known as the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) — a member of the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) coalition of sex-miseducators —may be surprising. As previously reported by Live Action News, SIECUS was founded by the former medical director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Mary Steichen Calderone. Helping her to fund the creation of the group (today known as SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change) was Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, whose Foundation also funded Planned Parenthood — and also funded a group known as the Kinsey Institute, named after Alfred Kinsey, a man dubbed the “Father of the Sexual Revolution.”

Warped methodology, warped ideas

Alfred Kinsey believed that children were sexual beings from birth — but he wasn’t the first to make this claim.

This idea was promoted in the highly scrutinized and controversial psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Freud’s fellow psychoanalyst, Carl G. Jung, accused him of “projecting an observation from adult life onto the child’s mind,” and ultimately rejected “Freud’s notion of the polymorphic perverse sexuality of children.”

Freud’s psychosexual theory is often criticized as being “hard to test scientifically, leaving questions about its validity,” and suffering from a lack of data — since his theories were based on one victim of incestuous sexual abuse. Despite this, early SIECUS Report contributors called Freud a “giant seminal” figure while alluding to the idea that Freud’s psychosexual theory did not go far enough in justifying the assumption that children are inherently sexual from birth. “Freud’s theory of a latency period, which alleges a diminution of interest in sexual matters from infancy to late childhood, created an acceptance of a wish fulfillment which saw children as innocent sexual beings (emphasis added),” they wrote.

In other words, as warped and unscientific as Freud’s theories were, the SIECUS authors took issue with Freud’s presupposition that children were innocent and somewhat disinterested in what he described as inherent sexual desires. Were the SIECUS authors desiring a scientific justification to support their unsettling claims that children’s sexual desires are inherently similar or equal to those of adults? It is this type of perverted ideology often illustrated in the depraved justification of pedophiles and sexual abusers.

When Kinsey came on the scene, he attempted to provide a more scientific approach to sexology by gathering data. However, as Live Action News author Bettina diFiore reported in the “Built on Sand” series, Kinsey used disturbing and unscientific methods to obtain this data — which included coaching pedophiles to use a stopwatch to record their violent sexual abuse of infants and children and to document their graphic observations.

Founded on Darwinistic evolutionary ideology, Kinsey’s and Freud’s theories fell flat in proving anything remotely scientific. Research Associate Jeffrey Escoffier with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research noted, “The Kinsey approach not only failed to replace Freudian theory with any sophisticated theory of its own, but it also failed to establish a viable research tradition or a more robust empirical account of the individual’s sexual behavior.”

Yet, SIECUS has historically based its sex-ed program upon Kinsey’s flawed claims and theories.

After Kinsey’s warped ‘methodology’ came to light, public outrage against Kinsey led SIECUS and its supporters to distance and excuse themselves from his sexually abusive tactics in the 1996 SIECUS Report. Yet later, the group attempted to minimize Kinsey’s active participation in hiding the severe sexual abuse of children by pedophiles, referring to Kinsey as “The most significant agent of change in American cultural life in the 20th century.” They labeled those opposed to Kinsey’s ‘research’ as “far-right.”

However, in addition to SIECUS and the Kinsey Research Center (originally the Institute for Sex Research) sharing the same early donor — Hugh Hefner — the two organizations also shared originating trustees and board members. One of those individuals was Wardell Pomeroy.

Promoting incest and bestiality

A founding board member of SIECUS, Wardell Pomeroy worked alongside Alfred Kinsey for two decades.

Pomeroy held disturbing beliefs regarding incest and the sexual abuse of children. He told Time in 1980, “It is time to admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness…. Incest between… children and adults… can sometimes be beneficial.”

In an article entitled “A New Look at Incest,” which was printed in pornographic publications, Pomeroy further justified his unsettling beliefs, stating:

We find many beautiful and mutually satisfying [sexual] relationships between fathers and daughters. These may be transient or ongoing, but they have no harmful effects…. Incest between adults and younger children can also prove to be a satisfying and enriching experience…. Incest can be a satisfying, non-threatening, and even an enriching emotional experience, as I said earlier.

In the book, “Boys and Sex,“ Pomeroy targeted teenage boys, even discouraging the negative stigmatization of bestiality, presenting it as if the practice is something that merely “happens” to some people:

While most people think it’s at least immoral, and repulsive as well, it’s practiced around the world and has been known as far back as the ancient world. In our time, about 4 percent of city boys and 17 percent of farm boys, according to Kinsey’s figures, engaged in sexual behavior with animals, and 4 percent of both city and farm girls had done it. As to whether it’s immoral or not, that depends entirely on the point of view…

This kind (bestiality) of sexual behavior may never happen to you, because the incidence is so low. If it does, you would be best advised to keep any knowledge of it to yourself so you can avoid either ridicule or punishment, or both. You can feel secure in your knowledge that you’re not a monster, no matter what society may think about it.

Given the close relationship between Pomeroy, SIECUS founder Mary Calderone, and the porn industry, SIECUS’ position referring to pornography as “art” and stating that pornography “can serve a variety of important needs in the lives of countless individuals” should come as no surprise.

Anti-Religious Roots

Given the penchant toward promoting bestiality — fairly common in pagan worship in ancient times — it should also not be surprising that SIECUS founders and originating board members have a documented history of attacking religion — specifically, Judeo-Christianity. Their belief system was based in Humanist ideology.

In 1973, SIECUS co-founder Lester A. Kirkendall and Alan F. Guttmacher — a VP of the American Eugenics Society and the Planned Parenthood president responsible for introducing abortion to the organization — were co-signers of the Humanist Manifesto II, published in “The Humanist. The Manifesto,” which stated, “But we can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. While there is much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will become. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.”

The Manifesto went on to say:

Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation or both illusory and harmful. They distract humans from present concerns, from self-actualization, and from rectifying social injustice… There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body. We continue to exist in our progeny and in the way that our lives have influenced others in our culture.

In 1983, Kirkendall received the “Humanist Award of the Year” from the American Humanist Association, joining Mary Calderone (1974) and Margaret Sanger (1957) on the list of other awardees. Sanger, of course, was the founder of Planned Parenthood, which has become America’s abortion industry leader.

Conclusion

The beliefs of SIECUS’ founding members still live on today through the group of sex miseducators under the FoSE coalition and its affiliates, who have infiltrated public schools and libraries.

Anyone who speaks against the sexual perversion of SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, and the FoSE coalition, is attacked and labeled by SIECUS as part of a religious ‘”regressive minority” which “… operates under an ideology of homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, patriarchal ideals, and white supremacy that has proliferated into broader attacks against public education.”

Pomeroy once stated that he believed “…if Kinsey were alive today he would, quite incidentally, be pleased at the changes in openness and attitudes about sex….”

It is no surprise that the most vocal promulgators of the killing of preborn children via abortion historically and currently promote children’s access to pornography, masturbation, “gender-affirming care,” and sexually explicit books in effort to continue to fulfill the goals of Kinsey, Calderone, Kirkendall, Pomeroy, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

We must ask ourselves: are these foundational principles and beliefs held by SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and their affiliates truly deserving of easy access to the precious minds of vulnerable children with the use of tax dollars?


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: abortion; arth; calderone; education; hughhefner; kinsey; kirkendall; plannedparenthood; pomeroy; prolife; sexeducation; siecus

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1 posted on 05/12/2025 1:33:53 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Thanks for posting this history of organized depravity of kids.


2 posted on 05/12/2025 1:41:14 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Morgana

In my all male health class back in 1968 (I was in 8th grade), the female “Sex ed” teacher came in as a visiting teacher and taught us how to masterbate.

I’d literally never heard of such a thing.


3 posted on 05/12/2025 1:50:23 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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4 posted on 05/12/2025 1:53:20 PM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.")
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To: cuban leaf

“In my all male health class back in 1968 (I was in 8th grade), the female “Sex ed” teacher came in as a visiting teacher and taught us how to masterbate.”

I would have figured Junior High boys would already know how to do this. When I was in Junior High the boys would mock do it when the teacher was not looking.


5 posted on 05/12/2025 1:55:10 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

Todays sex ed came from the homos and pedophiles. What could go wrong?


6 posted on 05/12/2025 2:06:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Morgana

Well, I was probably more protected than most. My mother was a big time helicopter.

Heck, one time in 10th grade I was sitting on the bathroom throne and I thought I heard a tiny rattle at the door. Suddenly my mom burst in.

Don’t get me started...

For the record, I still turned out normal.😋


7 posted on 05/12/2025 2:27:44 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: cuban leaf
I’d literally never heard of such a thing.

Course not, it was jackin it.

8 posted on 05/12/2025 2:47:26 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: Morgana

Later


9 posted on 05/12/2025 3:04:39 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: MtnClimber; Lazamataz

Back in 1960, we had all sorts of questions about sex as 12 year old boys. Our parents were hung up about it generally.It was a forbidden topic.

To satisfy my curiosity I sometimes frequented a used book store looking curiously at sexy romance novels and book about human anatomy.

As I passed a table stacked with books, a little old wrinkled lady wearing a kerchief hair cover said, “Try this....,” sliding a used book over to me. I blushed, stuttered ,embarrassed,picked up the book, hurrying down through the books stacks.I was ready to leave the store, feeling so embarrassed. But something made me stop and look at the book.

It was titled, “ Memoirs of a Lady of Pleasure” by John Cleland. As a boy of 12, I had been reading all sorts of adventure novels,and historical novels. I was hooked on reading.The book was used and was priced at 50 cents.I got up enough nerve to purchase it with the old man at the cash register smirking as I paid.

What was it about this book? I began reading it that night and finished it in several days, hiding it under my bed.

That was likely the best sex education I could have received.

When my son turned 12 many years ago, I discretely slipped a brand new edition of that book into his book shelf.Didn’t really say anything about it. Years later he thanked me saying it was an eye opener for him, and it answered a lot of questions he had about the confusing way things were before he read the book.Today he is happily married and I have three delightful grand children.

Good Read:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25305/25305-h/25305-h.htm


10 posted on 05/12/2025 3:37:04 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Morgana

I think I vaguely remember some of that nonsense from health class as far back as 1986.

Most of my health class was distracted by the teacher, a slim, fit, long haired lady in her mid 30s talking about vaginas and penises.

I think that was the only class I ever saw all the jocks sitting in the front row.


11 posted on 05/12/2025 4:32:23 PM PDT by Red6
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To: cuban leaf
Suddenly my mom burst in.

Happened to me, too.

Traumatized for life.

12 posted on 05/12/2025 4:52:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL!


13 posted on 05/12/2025 5:23:07 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: Morgana

Jung was a great thinker, and a rational man.


14 posted on 05/12/2025 5:49:12 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!)
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To: cuban leaf

Are you serious? I’m baffled


15 posted on 05/12/2025 6:15:46 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Morgana

SIECUS was there, and evil, in the early- to mid-50s. My father was on the school board in our conservative rural county, and president of it his last two years. At a board meeting, he exposed SIECUS and its origin and purposes, and its proposal was shot down. I can remember him ranting about SIECUS one evening in a backyard BBQ when I was under about 10.


16 posted on 05/12/2025 10:28:38 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: Morgana

The question is not whether children need to learn about sex, but whether you want a bunch of low mentality Sergeant Schultzes teaching children about sex.


17 posted on 05/13/2025 6:19:13 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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