The New York City Department of Education now requires that both middle and high schools must include medically accurate sexual health courses in their curriculum. HIV Law Project was instrumental in bringing about this mandate. "This comprehensive sex education curriculum has nothing to do with endorsing sexual activity," HLP explains. "It is about acknowledging that over 50% of young people in high school are having sex. We cannot ignore this. We have an obligation to keep our young people safe. It’s a health issue like any other."
Having just had "the talk" with my own son shortly after he informed me with a tired eye-roll that he "already knew everything," I can say that, yeah, kids will talk and they're not talking about the the things I was talking about when I was nine. I shudder to think what they'll be mulling over at 13. Or doing. That awkward filmstrip class that I got when I was in sixth grade might not cut it with our worldly tweeners nowadays.
But check out this clip of Sean Hannity where he equates New York's new education mandate to basic training in S&M, oral sex with braces, fetishes, porn stars, vibrators and bestiality.
Hmm. If that's the case I guess we can expect more kids to stick it out to graduation. So that's a plus.
But seriously, somewhere between sexless sex-ed and Hannity's scene from Fellini Satyricon there is a valid issue here:
Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights?
Authors Robert P. George and Melissa Moschella ask their NY Times readers, "Should the government force parents to send their children to classes that may contradict their moral and religious values on matters of intimacy and personal conduct?"
What do you think?
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