Sex Education Quotes

The primary objective of Federal efforts in family life and sex education has been to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates among teenagers, while the primary goal of most sex educators appears to be encouragement of healthy attitudes about sex and sexuality.

I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

We all want abstinence. And if I knew how to get abstinence I would do whatever it takes to do that ... Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

I dream of the day when every new born child is welcome, when men and women are equal, and when sexuality is an expression of intimacy, joy and tenderness.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.

I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have it…the object of it is to enable a person to have sexual intercourse, and not to have that which in the order of Providence is the natural result of that sexual intercourse. That is the only purpose of the book and all the instruction in the other parts of the book leads up to that proposition.

Planned Parenthood is an organization that does not provide quality health care.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

There is nothing unnatural about kissing. If more husbands would learn from the stage and pictures just how to kiss, and then go home and practice on their wives, there would be happier homes and fewer divorces.

There is only one question to ask a presidential candidate that makes any sense. It is: What do you propose to do about the rate of illegitimate births?

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

When we were kids coming up, if you stole your dad's Playboy magazine, that was about as much of an education as you were gonna get. You finish looking at the centrefold and you read 'The Playboy Adviser' that told you about what stereo to buy and something about sex which you didn't quite understand, and you were still just as confused. Now if you're ten the entire world of human sexuality, and a very misogynistic version of that, is available to you on a laptop after a couple of key strokes. I think it's changed the vernacular in the way men address women.

Activists for retrograde social policy live in a world where if you don’t tell teenagers about contraception, they won’t have sex. But that world is not reality, and that fantastical view of human behavior should not dictate sex education policy in ... public schools. Yet it does.

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory.

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.