Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Teaching of How-to in Sex Education is not Enough

Why should the maxim, "As a man soweth, so shall he reap" not apply to sex education?

The art of teaching the topic should be touched with the same care and respect as you would have it practiced. If you show no care in your teaching for when there should be sex, you should expect the person to learn no regard against having sex with whomever he or she will and as often as he or she might want. If you teach, "Here is what sex is," you will have taught the how-to without the when-to.

That is not the way to raise the child. It is like throwing seeds to the wind, carelessly. The result cannot be good. "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind," says the prophet Hosea (Hosea 8:7).

I have never sat through a sex education class in Utah. But, I think this matter of grave concern. The topic of sex is not to be dealt with lightly, not without care. I think of a person who might teach a child about guns, and how to shoot them, and then give the child the gun to have and to shoot at will.

Would that be all the parent teaches, just the how-to? Would not the parent also teach when to use the gun, teach that it is not a toy, teach of the harm that can be done, the damage?

Someone might tell me those things are well taught in our schools, but, I wonder.

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