It can't grow unless we allow it to. The silence surrounding the subject in schools is not unfamiliar to gay people. Countless books on coming out feature testimony after testimony documenting the solitary pain gay teenagers experience as they struggle against the silence to forge meaningful identities and positive lives. For many, even in the 1990s, education on homosexuality remains limited to the torrent of torment and abuse hurled at those whom school-yard Caesers regard as queer and to secret sojourns to school libraries to look up THAT word in musty dictionaries. Even in the age of the infobahn, NetNanny does its darndest to make sure junior never gets to see anything positive about who they might be.
Sex is out there.
Kids are doing it. If the kids aren't experimenting with peers or willingly doing it, they are being forced into doing it. It's okay for a kid to get education on TV about guns, violence and bashings, but sex is still taboo. They were all bright kids with talents and promising futures. They should get out of those jobs if they can't face reality.