Letters to the Editor
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All things in moderation
Having taught high school students for forty years,having been one once upon a time, I can only marvel at the naivte of those who think that sexuality can be taught with any expectation of success. Morals, like religion, is best caught rather than taught. Students may claim to want to be individuals but most desperately want to conform, and they will conform most closely to what their peers do, to what they see the rest of society doing, than to the demands of any curriculum. Well, during the past forty years ago, society has decided that women can have sex freely, as freely as men--that sexual restraint is somehow unnatural. Only nature has its own standards: it says that too much of a goodthing is bad for the human body: too much sex is like too much food and drink. Excess, by the most pragmatic of tests is not good. Drink bad water, and you get typhoid; have sex with the wrong people, and you get AIDS. Abstractly kids kno this stuff, and the majority can take care of themselves, sex ed or no sex ed. But there is always that minority that rushes in where angels fear to tread. Nothing the school can do.