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Grossman draws an analogy between teaching comprehensive sex ed and teaching about eating: An expert tells students that people eat different kinds of diets. Some people eat diets low in calories and saturated fats, with plenty of vitamins and minerals. Other people choose to consume foods high in calories and fat, including lots of junk food. It’s up to you—children and teens—to decide which diet you’re going to pick. Comprehensive sex ed teaches students that they have many options when it comes to their sexual behavior, and it’s up to them to choose what’s best for them.

Grossman writes that if the priority of those in the sex ed industry is children’s health, then it’s time for a major course correction.

They must grow up, shed their 1960s mentality, and enter the twenty-first century. They must respond to this catastrophe by declaring war on teen sexual behavior. Yes, war—just as we’ve declared war on smoking, drinking, and transfats. Stop foisting the ill-conceived notion that sexual openness and exploration is healthy. That was never true, and it’s surely not true now, with genital bacteria and viruses infecting another young person every 3.5 seconds.

Instead of telling children that only they can decide when to have sex, we should be doing everything possible to encourage kids to delay sexual behavior. That’s the message health professionals are obliged to be giving, Grossman believes, if they claim to base their teaching on modern science.

Because like it or not, Dr. Kinsey, current scientific research supports traditional values.•  Read here

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