Roffman on sex ed
The Washington Post has a great op-ed piece by Deborah Roffman, a longtime sex education teacher and author of Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex.
The [sexual] revolution had promised to liberate not only people, but the whole issue of sex, from centuries of negativity and ignorance. Sex would finally be seen as a positive, life-enhancing part of our humanity. It didn't happen. . . . If we want our children to come to think of sex as a meaningful and value-laden part of the human condition, we'll have to complete the work of a well-intentioned but long-stalled revolution. . . . We'll have to learn to articulate clearly the specific kinds of situations and relationships that we consider morally acceptable (or not), and why. We'll have to be able to spell out the specific kinds of moral values -- such as honesty, caring, responsibility, privacy, respect, mutual consideration -- that we expect them to bring to any sexual relationship, from first kisses to intercourse in its various forms.
