On a related note, I never understood why people of a certain political persuasion tend to be against <i>any</i> mention of sexuality even towards <i>teenagers</i>. I've seen more than one such person say that "14 or 15 year old people shouldn't be talking about sexuality". Apparently we shouldn't ever be talking to people <i>who have gone through or are going through puberty</i> about sexuality.<p>The whole <i>problem</i> is that people have not properly been taught about sex, because educational institutions have for years, in different areas, been hamstrung (like with all the "abstinence-only" education in areas like the bible belt), and parents aren't the best sexual educators (because on a personal level, they don't want to even think about that sort of thing). Cue the trope of the angry father telling the daughter "you're not dating until you're <i>30</i>".<p>The vast majority of people over the last 60 years have been taught more from some form of pornography (whether it be the stack of Playboys under Dad's bed, or the teenager screwing with the horizontal and vertical hold on their TV to try to watch Skinemax, to today's young people having access to internet porn). Some of us came out ok, but some people (depending on which porn they learned from) didn't.<p>The problem with education being <i>too</i> centralized, is that it results in a choke point for power grabs and indoctrination, if we're not careful. Perhaps sexual education should be totally independent from the rest of secondary education?