Health educators risk students’ well-being by being too politically correct, according to a column in WorldNetDaily.com.  The author cites Miriam Grossman, author of the book “Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student.”

According to the article,  Dr. Grossman has garnered media attention because of her claim that health educators risk students’ health by promoting a “particular ideology – usually a combination of feminism, androgyny and ‘anything goes’ liberalism.”

The commentary goes further, saying that young women are particularly hurt by this ideology.

One fact absent from most sex education programs is that young girls are more susceptible to STDs than mature women. They don’t include information about the cervical transformation zone (or T-Zone), a ring of cells that is vulnerable to infection. The transformation zone is dramatically larger in a teenage girl, but shrinks as she gets older.

The commentary says the rationale for this ideology is that “sex educators like the idea of telling teens to have sex as soon as they feel ready not because it’s good for them, but because they see it as the values-neutral position.”

For more about Grossman, you can also read a recent San Francisco Chronicle article in which she discusses her book and what she sees as dangers in the casual “hook-up” environment on college campuses.

What do you think?  Do you think sex education programs are too politically correct to the point of being permissive, sending the message that it’s okay to have sex early?

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