Who needs irds and bees when we have MTV?
MY HEART’S AFLUTTER: MTV cares about our children’s sexual health. And I care, deeply, about America’s sense. Maybe you missed it. Maybe you have a life and don’t hug your TV every night. In such event, you may not have seen a recent special TV program – sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based health care philanthropy, and MTV, the soft-porn purveyor preferred by teens – aimed at teaching your children about healthy sex. Why don’t we just invite Philip Morris over to talk to our kids about healthy smoking? Eat your veggies, carefully pick your genes, live in unpolluted areas and chances are, you won’t get lung cancer. You can smoke like 50 million other Americans do; not a problem. No thought is ever given these days to educating children about postponing sex, about not having intercourse for a few more years, about not putting themselves at risk for AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), pregnancy, abortion, not to mention the life-long emotional repercussio
