Insatiable Beducators

By Nicholas Stix I sent the following letter to the Village Voice on April 13, in response to Rachel Kramer Bussel’s sex column, “Lusty Lady. In “Teens’ Sexual Rights” (April 8), Rachel Kramer Bussel quotes her sex ed friends as insisting that they are just spreading enlightenment, not sex. And I was born yesterday. When sex ed pushers got started, it was with an avowed agenda to change society. After they succeeded, they switched, rhetorically, to Plan B: “Education only mirrors society.” Bussel’s sex pushers are dissatisfied with “abstinence” education, and desire to enlighten people. Me, too. I want “abstinence” ed out of the public schools, too, and to enlighten parents that they in fact have the right to remove their children from sex ed classes. The same people who demand that the state stay out of their bedrooms, want the state pushing other people’s children into bedrooms. When the sex ed pushers got started, the white illegitimacy rate was negligible, and the black rate was an alarming 22%. Now, the white rate is 22%, while the black rate, which a few years ago hit 70%, is 68%. But they’re still not satisfied. Sex ed, the short course: If you have sex, I’ll kill you. Adolescent sexual rights, the short course: My son has the right to have sex with any consenting girl of age of his choosing, provided that he has reached his 30th birthday, he’s paying his own rent or mortgage, and his mother has approved the girl. He is then free to do as he pleases.