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"'A key problem is that there is no compulsory sex education in our schools.

'We need to give young women and men the tools to navigate their way through a highly sexually-charged society.'"

Yeah, this makes sense if you belong to the Church of the Multiple Orgasm. I teach high school students, and no offense to any of my students, but even with the best tools available most of my students wouldn't have the ability to make the right decisions needed for a sane, reasonable sex life. Teenagers don't have what it takes to make a rational risk analysis.

This article outlines in semipornographic detail the sex lives of junior high girls, complete with remorse, drinking, statuatory rape, and the chance for catching an STD - and the writer leads us to people who argue for "better tools" for young people.

If the "sex is OK" people are really in favor of what they say, why not give kids a motel room, a carafe of white wine, a hot tub, and a copy of the Kama Sutra (one with pictures, in case they haven't learned how to read)? How about bringing the boys to a prostitute?

If this article isn't an argument in favor of abstinance and monogamy, nothing is.

but even with the best tools available most of my students wouldn't have the ability to make the right decisions needed for a sane, reasonable sex life. Teenagers don't have what it takes to make a rational risk analysis.

Not what any teenager wants to hear, but certainly true!

I teach high school students, and no offense to any of my students, but even with the best tools available most of my students wouldn't have the ability to make the right decisions needed for a sane, reasonable sex life. Teenagers don't have what it takes to make a rational risk analysis. You underestimate your students. I would bet a large sum of money that many of them COULD make the right decision. As a long-time Freeper, I am becoming increasingly bitter about some of the hard-line opinions on this forum that leave no room for common sense. When we believe in our religion so blindly that we ignore reality, we become no better than our enemies. Western culture has changed from the one that many of you grew up in. Nobody takes any personal responsibility anymore. Why? Because it's all too easy to say "It's not my problem." The people here that are advocating only abstinence education are in denial. You can't just say "Sex is the devil and will get you killed," and be done with it. Whether or not you educate about sex, it is human nature to want to explore it. Even if NOTHING was said about any sexual topics in schools, and the media still had discretion, you would not change the fact that it would happen. The Europeans don't have it right, obviously, but we don't in North America either. What is the answer? I don't know. But it's not the way things are currently done, and it's certainly not to deny that sex exists.