The Causes of the Crisis in Sex Education
The basic problem with sex education, as it is being promoted today, is twofold. What should be taught to what age group? And how?
The general approach by educators is not to advocate promiscuity, as some seem to believe. It is not to promulgate "free sex." The general approach is to mention all views of sex, and then leave the final decisions up to the students themselves. This approach, though not strictly immoral in outlook, is definitely amoral! It results in skyrocketing social problems.
The question of morality is left up to each individual student.
Proponents of sex education make statements like: "Morals are relative and should consist only of exercising responsibility toward another person." Each young student is left to interpret the word "responsibility" however it suits him! The doors are left wide open for human nature, with its lusts and desires, to express itself without restraint.
The usual approach is not to condemn masturbation or homosexuality, but to "understand" it. This approach does not condemn premarital intercourse or promiscuity — it merely defines them. It mentions what the potential problems of such conduct might be, and then leaves the ultimate decision up to each individual student.
This approach is the root cause of the rising rates of VD, divorce, and all the sexual problems facing people today! It leaves the final choices to young minds, still too immature to have to make such decisions!
Many advocates of sex education have no objection toward premarital sexual experimentation among adolescents. Some, in fact, are in favor of it, "provided consideration is given to the partner"!
This approach, expressed in class, has already led to some serious problems in schools where sex education is being taught. A mother in Phoenix wrote a letter, later printed in the Phoenix American, claiming her 12-year-old son was taught a class in sex education. Nine weeks later she caught him sexually molesting their 4-year-old daughter. He told her he was taught about intercourse at school and wanted to "try it out" on his sister.
In the Sarasota, Florida county medical society's journal, Dr. William Campbell Douglass gave the example of one school, where the sex education teacher "herded her little charges into a darkened room and had them feel each other."
What Is Planned for YOUR Children?
Promoting sex education in the United States is the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, called SIECUS. By 1970 plans are to reach every school in the country. Mary Calderone, the director of SIECUS, desires sex education courses from kindergarten through high school. What kind of education is involved?
According to the program, young elementary pupils would be shown a film of animals in the act of intercourse and finally a man and woman under a sheet as a voice explains, "Mommy and Daddy are doing what the dogs were doing."
A series of colored slides titled How Babies Are Made depict paper sculptures of animals, flowers, and human beings in the act of intercourse. While children watch attentively, the narrator uses adult, medical terms to describe what is happening.
As children progress through school, greater detail is used by the teachers to explain about intercourse. Subjects such as dating, petting, premarital relations, homosexuality, and masturbation are discussed in a frank classroom atmosphere.
What is basically wrong with such education? What its advocates seemingly fail to see is how such a program, from kindergarten through high school, taught from a non-moral, clinical approach, focuses the child's mind on sex instead of marital love.
Cramming this kind of knowledge about sex into the minds of little children, causing them to become overly conscious of sex, heightening their interest and curiosity, can create unnecessary anxiety in the child. It can lead to childish experimentation; even arouse sexual excitement in the young child.
Even if the technical information is accurate, forcing it upon children not ready mentally or emotionally to receive it interferes with the development of healthy, normal emotions and intellect.
Children should not be overwhelmed with sex, sex, sex, at young impressionable ages when their normal interest is in fun and games, natural friendships, and simply learning how to be little boys and little girls. To create premature interest in sex in children can eventually twist and warp personality development.
Deliberately arousing a child's curiosity and stimulating his mind to sexual preoccupations is criminal. Take another look at Sweden and Denmark and the rising venereal diseases and morality problems they have experienced. If you believe there is too much venereal disease, now, and too many illegitimate babies, now, the situation would be far worse if unnatural and premature sex education is foisted off on little children all the way from kindergarten to their last school year!
Sex education catapults little children into a field which they are unequipped to properly evaluate. And more tragic, many of the teachers themselves are far from being qualified to teach this subject properly, with discretion and true wisdom!
For teachers to simply teach "the facts of life" is not enough. Straight information, accurate facts, details and statistics are not enough. Children must be approached properly with this subject. It requires delicate tact, wisdom, and real understanding of human nature! How many teachers, today, really qualify? Very, very few!
Unfortunately, parents too are in the same boat! Most parents are no better equipped to deal with the subject of sex than the teachers. Both, in most cases, are found extremely wanting — lacking.
What is the answer, then?
Right Kind of Sex Education
Certainly, the half-truths, the evasions, the distortions, falsehoods, and deceptions of the Old Morality are not the answer. Ignoring the interest of children, their natural curiosity about where they came from, is wrong. "Putting them off" with bland, inexpert, meaningless mouthing's caused the sex revolution.
Forcing too much sex education upon too young children is having an equally terrible result. Using an academic, clinical, amoral approach can only make sex — which God created beautiful and clean — an instrument for wrecking marriages, ruining lives, increasing diseases, abortions, illegitimacy and divorce.
The answer, then, comes to this. True sex education — from a God-given moral, factual approach — is vitally necessary, but generally missing in both home and school.
You are responsible for your children and their education. You brought them into the world. They are your responsibility. You need to teach them early the basic facts of life, beginning at home.
As a loving parent, you yourself need to understand sex, its meaning and God-intended purpose — the meaning of marriage, why sex outside of marriage is wrong. You need to study to make yourself qualified to teach your children the truth about where they came from — and, as they grow a little older, why God made us male and female and what sex is all about!
What YOU Should Do
How can you properly fulfill this God-given responsibility?
No doubt this question has crossed your mind, and you desperately want the answer. Here it is — what you have been waiting for!
Ambassador College Graduate School of Theology publishes a vitally important book entitled God Speaks Out On "The New Morality." This tremendous book explains the purpose of sex, why we are male and female, the reason for marriage. It gives vital, necessary instruction on the right principles about sex.
In order to teach your children rightly, and to get rid of your own ignorance and false concepts, you need to read this book!
It lays the foundation for true sexual understanding. If you would like to have your own personal free copy then write to the address on the inside front cover of this magazine. Regrettably we cannot send this book to unmarried minors. But, if you are married, or engaged to be married, or single but over 21 years of age, then be sure to write immediately for your free copy. Unmarried minors can ask their parents to write for it and teach them from it. There has never been a book like it.