Massachusetts News Staff

January 5--Is sexual activity necessary for the mental and physical health of teenagers? 

That view has been popularized by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Alfred Kinsey, and others. Sanger wrote that if we remove the "cruel morality of self-denial and ‘sin,’" then we will see that "most of the larger evils of society will perish."

This movement culminated in the novel The Harrad Experiment, which sold three million copies after being published in 1966. It is credited for the creation of coed dormitories and similar changes of the sexual revolution. In a postscript added to the 1990 edition of his book, the author, Robert Rimmer, wrote: "Can we lift ourselves by the bootstraps and create a new kind of society where human sexuality and the total wonder of the human body and the human mind become the new religion – a humanistic religion, without the necessity of a god, because you and I and all the billions who could interact caringly with one another are the only god we need? I think we can."

Many teachers and the federal Centers for Disease Control obviously have accepted these beliefs that sex is necessary for a healthy teenager.
 

RETURN TO FRONT PAGE