US-style sex education brings only misery

WHATEVER the future of sex education in Ireland (Irish Examiner series, March 12-14), we should learn from the mistakes made in the US where it is often presented pornographically to desensitise students to the values of love, fidelity, self-restraint and parenthood.

It is well known that such ‘education’ has brought an avalanche of teenage pregnancies and venereal diseases.

According to the liberal Guttmacher Institute, by 1993 one American in five was suffering from an incurable sexually transmitted disease.