O'CONNOR: SEX ED NOT MEANT TO REDUCE RATE OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY \doc\web\97\03\whysex.txt From: robtoc@dorsai.org (Robert O'Connor) arthurhu@mail1.halcyon.com wrote: > I don't have a clipping, but recall that this is a common response to > the charge that sex ed didn't reduce the rate of sexual activity. > (that it was never a goal in the first place) That's right. Sex education wasn't designed to promote anything, in- cluding celebacy. It was meant to teach the facts about sex to child- ren and adolscents, rather than leaving them with incomplete information they'd get from embarassed parents and not-so-street wise kids. The purpose is to make children aware of the options, dangers and possibilities AND the fact that, no what their friends might say, they shouldn't feel pressured into sex that they don't want. More succinctly, it aims at creating greater responsibility in sexual matters among children and adolescents. Some people, of course, find any mention of sex--either between children, children and teachers, or even children and parents to be shocking and reprehesible. But, then, there are still those who do believe that the earth is flat and the sun is the center of the universe. I don't know about Asians being on the preferred side of the sexual awareness equation. If they're less subject to unwanted pregnancy and STDs then they're certainly on the wise and cautious side. That doesn't mean their desires and fantasies aren't exactly the same as everyone else's however. So, if you believe such thoughts to sinful then Asians certainly "lust in their minds." I don't see the connection between my question and your answer: "Well, the liberals are certainly no discourging it, are they?" At best you're begging the question. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Robert E. O'Connor Internet: robtoc@dorsai.org New York, New York -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Date sent: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:11:33 -0500 Send reply to: robtoc@dorsai.org From: Robert O'Connor Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, New York, New York Subject: Re: [PN] gay Holocaust? To: PNEWS-L@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU > From: arthurhu@mail1.halcyon.com > Still, there's a big difference between Nazis marching jews into > ovens at gunpoint and gays dying because they simply wanted > to party their brains out Oh, sure. But my point wasn't that others have suffered, too. It is that similar (not the same) horrors have happened to others. The perception of it, especially as it's happening to you, is quite subjective. Afterward it's not possible to measure who suffered the most. In fact, it's really quite pointless and the effort tends to becloud a more important issue: that such things can recur and, rather than competing for the title of he has suffered the most, all sufferers are far better off if they band together, to watch over one another. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Robert E. O'Connor Internet: robtoc@dorsai.org New York, New York -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-