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they are being crushed amidst our culture which is so toxic to their sensibilities and their sensitivities to their psyches, to their bodies, to their sexuality."

So sad but true, to many parents are "friends" to their kids and not parents and
further set the "example" by having no moral compass
No absolutes anymore just "opinions" (Judges 17:5)

For real insight into what kids in the PC age are up against, I highly recommend Anne Hendershott's The Politics of Deviance, a book I first saw reviewed here on FreeRepublic. Among other things, she talks about the public reaction to the PBS special "The Lost Children of Rockdale County," the story of an epidemic of sexual diseases among wealthy suburban kids. Many of the "sexual freedom" crowd were outraged that parents and educators were calling for abstinence training instead of encouraging the kids to continue finding more natural outlets for their interests.

"We have the answer. It is abstinence education. Many opponents of abstinence say it doesn’t work - it does work – all the time. The kids are willing to learn it. Are we willing to teach it?"

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It will soon be 40 years since the massive sexual revolution of the mid '60s. We have parents and now grandparens who are just as dedicated to pushing promiscuous sex as they were 15, 20, and 35 years ago. That is the problem. The answer to the question is NO.

This is all, of course, absolutely true. One of the enormous problems we face in this nation has to do with a kind of moral blindness that is a direct result of the collapse in sexual morality. The baby boomer generation were the first to embrace this "new morality" on a wide scale and the result has been nothing less than catastrophic. Few baby boomers are able to admit that they were profoundly wrong about this issue and that their own conduct and behavior was, frankly, sinful. This is one of the big reasons Bill Clinton skated for his lawless conduct. Because of their own immorality, vast numbers of this generation are simply unable to make any sort of moral judgement at all - on any issue - except to reflexively condemn as "intolerant", "prudish", or "sexually repressed" those who still try to adhere to the now-abandoned Judeo-Christian moral code. To paraphrase the scriptures, their consciences have been "seared with a hot iron." We are now faced with a whole new generation that has grown up with divorce and sexual amorality in their parents' lives and are simply unable to comprehend anything beyond, despite a longing for something better (like all of the 30-something single women who now find themselves unhappy despite achieving the feminist dream.)

[...] but for all of the other sexually transmitted diseases which infect beautiful heterosexual children across the country there is insufficient evidence that condoms work at all.

Such casual dropping-in of bigotry. Are "non-heterosexual" children -- the single largest cohort for depression and suicide in this country, and who also do get STDs -- to be so casually written off? I guess they're not "beautiful" enough, are they, Doctor?