Sex education
Sir, — In claiming that neither sex education nor the pill leads to promiscuity, Professor LlewellynJones displays ignorance of the facts. A survey taken some years ago by Professors Kantner and Zelnik in the United States showed that unmarried teen-age girls using contraceptives were more likely to become pregnant, more likely to have abortions than the teen-age population as a whole. One of the developers of the contraceptive pill, a Dr Kistner, of the Harvard Medical School, is on record as having said: “About 10 years ago I declared that the pill would not lead to promiscuity. Well, I was wrong.” Another developer of the pill, Dr Minchueh Chang, said: “I personally feel the pill has rather spoiled young people . . . It’s made them more permissive. . (“The Press,” June 12, 1981). Those countries such as Sweden, Denmark, United States, United Kingdom which have introduced amoral sex and contraceptive education have experienced subsequent large increases in teen-age sexual activity. — Yours, etc., PETER CLEMENTS, Chairman, Concerned Parents’ Association. April 4, 1983.
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