New Jersey’s 'Sex, Etc.'     8/26/2004
By Lee Duigon

Another campaign to corrupt your children.

"Warning!!! If you are under 18 or live in a place that viewing adult content is prohibited, please revise your search."

No, it's not a pornographic Web site. This warning is the first thing you'll see when you try to log onto Sex, Etc., the sex-education "newsletter by teens, for teens" published nationally by Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey.

Sex, Etc. gives us Jerseyans something to be ashamed of besides our governor. The cyber-version is available to anyone with a computer, while the monthly print version is found in many local schools and libraries.

It's hard to write about this X-rated publication, whose purpose seems to be to persuade "teens"— or anyone else who reads it, regardless of age — to practice sex unrestrained by morality.

"There's no right or wrong here," proclaims the Web site, in an article about masturbation. Let it stand as the motto for the whole enterprise.

Sex, Etc. is notable for its detailed "how-to" advice on every imaginable sexual technique – this is for your kids, remember – plus lubricants, contraceptives, how to get an abortion with or without parental consent, and so on. If it had illustrations, it'd be the kind of thing you'd find in a bad Roman emperor's secret library.

It's full of gems like:

• "Many people enjoy anal stimulation" (followed by detailed instructions).
• "Know that whoever you're attracted to, you are perfectly normal" (hear that, pedophiles?).
• "Coming out [as a homosexual] can also be liberating and exciting because you're finally being true to yourself."
• The "fundamental human right [sic] to legally attest their love to whomever they want."

Remember, folks, this is for your kids.

The Rutgers Network for Family Life Education lists 77 corporate and private sponsors for Sex, Etc., including many well-known foundations. In addition to feeding on our tax dollars, Rutgers gets grants from PNC Bank, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance, The New York Times, and other major corporations.

Via e-mail and the telephone, I contacted a dozen of the foundations to ask why they choose to invest in a campaign to teach children that there's no such thing as sexual morality. I didn't get a single answer. "No comment at all" from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. "I'll get back to you" (when King Arthur returns) from the Ohio Children's Foundation, silence from the others. Can't they explain their actions? Or won't they?

An even bigger mystery is why American parents continue to allow their children to receive "sex education" from people who insist "there's no right or wrong here."

I'm from New Jersey.

What's your excuse?

Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer and former newspaper editor based in Metuchen, New Jersey, who writes periodically for Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute. He also writes regularly for the Chalcedon Foundation.

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