You're Teaching My Child What? by Miriam Grossman Page B

revolting “Take Care Down There,” and “How Babies are Made.” 8 Check out gURL.com , a site recommended to teens by SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and similar groups that claims to be “the largest community of teenage girls on the web.” Their “experts” want your daughter to know about sadomasochism—“being tortured, bound, tickled or having hot wax poured on the body.” “Though it may seem painful,” your daughter will learn, “those involved find the pleasure outweighs the pain.” 9 gURL.com ’s best selling book for teens, Deal With It! , lauded as “a superb reference for young women” by a former president of Planned Parenthood, provides your daughter with instructions on “giving a blow job,” “going down on a girl,” and features stick figure illustrations of “the three most popular positions” for intercourse. 10 Are you troubled by your teen’s language? I direct you to www.positive.org , recommended by both SIECUS and AFY. You’ll be horrified. This offensive material is foisted on our kids under the pretence of safeguarding their health and well-being.

    When I think of someone exposing my kids to this smut, my eyes narrow and the claws come out. I see red. But what of the many young people who’ve been raised on this stuff? What effect has it had on their attitudes and behavior? As a physician and a mother, I weep for them.

Hicks vs. Harvard
    Objections to today’s sex education are hardly new. Some parents have been active in their opposition, taking legal action, even going to jail. 11 But organizations such as SIECUS and Planned Parenthood claim neutrality and successfully portray the conflict as religious right versus medical facts, hicks versus Harvard.
    Those hicks must be on to something, because recent discoveries in neurobiology, endocrinology, and histology indicate science is in their corner. I contend that it’s “comprehensive sexuality education” that’s animated by pseudoscience and crackpot ideology. Sexuality educators charge their opposition with censoring medically accurate, up to date science, and argue that kids need more than a “plumbing lesson.” Yet the sex ed industry is no less guilty of using science selectively and omitting facts that contradict their agendas. It’s time to call foul.
    SIECUS and Planned Parenthood have yet to recognize some of the most compelling research of recent years. These organizations are still animated by the philosophies of the infamous sexologist Alfred Kinsey—whose work has been debunked—the birth control and eugenics advocate Margaret Sanger, the feminist Gloria Steinem, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. These twentieth-century crusaders were passionate about social change, not health. Their goal was a cultural revolution, not the eradication of disease. And the same is true for the sex ed industry. That’s why their premises haven’t changed in fifty years, even as journals like Neuropsychiatry and The New England Journal of Medicine have filled with research contradicting them.

Bizarro World
    While SIECUS informs kids that culture teaches what it means to be a man or a woman, neuroscientists identify distinct “male brains” or “female brains” while a child is still in the womb. According to the “experts,” a girl is a “young woman,” ready for “sex play,” but gynecologists know the question is not whether a sexually active “young woman” will get herpes, HPV, or Chlamydia, it’s which one . “Respect your teens’ decisions,” parents are advised; “step aside, and don’t judge.” But studies show kids do best when parents convey their expectations and stand firm. Give adolescents information, they promise, provide them with condoms and pills, and they’ll make smart decisions. But MRIs show that during