Comprehensive Sex Education Undermines Students’ Moral Development

Dec 20, 2018 by

Though its practitioners may be well-intentioned, comprehensive sex education does not offer a solution to sexual exploitation. On the contrary, it is part of the problem, since it fails to develop students’ capacity to differentiate between genuine love and sexual exploitation.

Does comprehensive sex education make children vulnerable to sexual exploitation?

The systematic sexual exploitation of 1400 children in Rotherham between the years 1997 and 2013, as well as widespread child abuse in other English towns, has led to an independent inquiry and several serious case reviews. These have been analyzed by Norman Wells, the director of the UK organization Family Education Trust, in his 2017 book Unprotected: How the normalization of underage sex is exposing children and young people to the risk of sexual exploitation.

According to the UK government definition, child sexual exploitation

occurs when an individual or group takes advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child or young person under the age of 18 into sexual activity (a) in exchange for something the victim needs or wants, and/or (b) for the financial advantage or increased status of the perpetrator or facilitator. The victim may have been sexually exploited even if the sexual activity appears consensual.

Wells refers to Alexis Jay’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham between 1997–2013. According to this report, children, including girls as young as eleven were:

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See also: Protecting sex from liberalism, by Anthony McCarthy, Public Discourse

Sexwise: an ‘excellent resource for 11s+’. Really? From Parent Power

and

Why does the NHS condemn overeating but condone promiscuity?By Ann Farmer, The Conservative Woman. “Obesity… is called an ‘epidemic’ although, unlike sexually transmitted diseases, obesity cannot be ‘caught’, even by intimate contact. Promiscuity, meanwhile, is treated as a private matter of individual choice, and no lectures on lifestyle changes are permitted, because that would be ‘judgemental’. It is even treated in sex education ‘lessons’ as normal and inevitable.”

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