Thursday, October 01, 2009

Barking up the wrong tree?

When I see things like this--an Obama appointee under fire for counseling a boy to "use a condom" instead of reporting statutory rape--I have to wonder if "sex ed" programs would do well to start not with diagrams of the human body and such, but rather with a review of laws surrounding what ought to be the marital act. If we teach them what is and is not legal and why, perhaps they might respect their sexuality a little bit more.

And, forced to learn the laws so they could teach them to students, maybe teachers and school staff would be more likely to report things like suspected statutory rape.

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