The usual argument against sex education—to ignore mutterings about Communist conspiracies to corrupt the country—urges that it is a) immoral to teach children about sex, and that b) to do so will lead children to behave immorally, i.e., to engage in undesirable sexual activity.
About a), the immorality of teaching about sex per se, apart from conduct, nothing factual can be proved one way or the other. It follows that the wishes of the community should be decisive: educators are no more expert on morality than anyone else. Schools, if they transmit moral values, must transmit those of the community, not those of the educators, whenever there is disagreement.
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