by Anne Schlafly Cori, chairman, Eagle Forum
A new word has popped up in sex education classes: “pan-sexual”. Facebook offers more than fifty gender choices, which means that “bi-sexual” is such an old-fashioned term and not descriptive of the current range of sexual choices. “Male/Female” is binary — two choices — but the biology deniers would prefer a broad smorgasbord of sexual activities. Sex education classes in middle school are now encouraging “omni” sexual adventures.
For example, the Madison, Wisconsin Metropolitan School District published an eight-minute video in October 2019 featuring middle school students on camera declaring:
It is wrong for adults to push children into publically declaring their sexuality on camera. It is an invitation for statutory rape and pedophilia and normalizes perversity. These children are on YouTube declaring their sexual availability and preferences. Yet the adult teachers in the video celebrate the children for speaking out about what should be their privacy. In other words, the Madison school is sanctioning “sexting” among its students.
The bad result of teaching such an extreme sexuality curriculum is this new idea that our identity directly and only comes from our sexuality. Sexuality is a part of who we are, but sexuality does not form our identity.
What is missing is fidelity. Each of us wants a loving and faithful and long-term relationship with another human being. The lifetime value of a sacred union should be taught and encouraged. Neither “pan-sexual” nor “bi-sexual” is fidelity. These children are being set up for failed relationships because they are taught not to want or expect fidelity. Casual sex is never healthy sex.
The extreme sexuality education curriculum is manipulating children into accepting junk sex as normal behavior. As such, the new sex ed encourages pornography, sexual exploitation, and androgyny. Many of the sex texts are not age-appropriate.
Here are some of the problems with extreme sexuality education curriculum now used in many public schools, compiled by RespectCulture.org:
- Introduces sexual behavior (anal, oral, and vaginal sex) to children as young as 11 (6th grade).
- Presents mutual masturbation, bathing together, and “dry” sex, as appropriate ways for middle schoolers to express affection until they are ready for intercourse.
- Undermines the value of delaying sexual activity and promotes early initiation as peer normative.
- Promotes a casual sex mindset and is attempting to shift the benchmark on what is considered age appropriate.
- Students are informed that they have sexual and reproductive rights and may leave school, during school hours, without parent knowledge or consent and that their absence will be hidden from their parents.
- Encourages children to role play hypothetical sexual scenarios, which embarrasses and exposes many students.
- Students are given access to websites for additional information on human sexuality, including peer-to-peer sex advice and sex information websites — which can be accessed at school through district provided computers.
- Some websites contain sex erotica for children in the form of “anonymous” questions, personal sexual experiences, and videos.
- Lessons on sexual harassment actually harass children by inappropriate role playing and details about sexual assault.
- Promotes controversial and unscientific opinions as facts.
- Does not represent shared community values and is not culturally sensitive.
