Both sides have won significant victories. And conservatives notched a major win in sex education. This news was published with great handwringing in the leading liberal journal Family Planning Perspectives, which is published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an ally of Planned Parenthood. The Guttmacher report, released in September, was based on a survey of 3,754 sex education teachers in grades 7 to 12. At the same time that the emphasis on abstinence-only sex education has risen, the rates of teen pregnancy and STD infection have fallen.
Conservatives declare that their tunnel-vision approach to sex education is a big success.
But this is a smug, delusional attitude. A closer look at the abstinence-only approach shows that it's about as effective in deterring teen pregnancy and STDs as a shredded condom. See the trailers before you see the movie. I'm a bit conceited. At his best Esquire's guide to what a man should know about sex is fun and female-friendly, but it's also about helping guys get laid.