Philip G. Ney: Sex Education

I am a retired professor of psychiatry having taught in 5 universities in different parts of Canada, Hong Kong and New Zealand. I have also run child and adolescent psychiatric units. I have been on school boards. It is from a review of the literature and from my experience that I write this brief opinion.

1) There is no particular need for "sex education". For many centuries there was no sex education yet children were conceived and their parents enjoyed the process. Discovery of each other and what is pleasant in bed, on the wedding night and therafter is an important part of the exciting and unique pleasure that bonds the couple.

2) Sex education inhibits pair bonding. To educate young people about something that comes naturally robs them of the spontainaity and joy of sex that is vitally important for pair bonding and thus family stability.

3) The more sex education, the more sexual self consciousness There is substantial evidence that the more sex education, especially on technique, the more the couple is sexually inhibited. The greater the emphasis on sexual performance, the less communication and interpersonal intimacy there is. the rest