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概述
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性教育与生殖知识
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“鲜花、飞鸟和蜜蜂”：不充分性教育之谚语
“The
flowers,
the
birds,
and
the
bees”:
Proverbial
for
inadequate
sex
education.
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我们的公共政策正在将性与生殖的区别对待纳入了议事日程。有一个很好的例子是性知识官方手册。最惯常的性教育决不再是生殖知识教育。过去，当教师们告诉学生们有关称之为生命的事实的时候，他们很少离题去讨论孩子是如何怀上的，而且也几乎从来不解释如何能够避免怀孕。大多数人简单地认为如何怀孕和如何避免怀孕的知识传播将会导致普遍的道德堕落。然而在今天，越来越多的人意识到反对青年人获取这些知识则可能是不道德的。确实，人口过剩的威胁已经迫使世界各国政府逆转其道德立场，进而把性与生殖以分离的方式对其公民进行宣传。在大多数国家，现在有公立的和私人的机构致力于通过书籍、电影、手册、广告以及个人咨询普及避孕知识。同时，越来越多的男女公正地要求在无社会干预之下，完全自主地控制自己的生殖活动。 |
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Introduction
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Sex
Education and Reproduction Information
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Our public policies are beginning to take the separation of sex and reproduction into account. A good example is the official handling of sexual knowledge.
Most traditional sex education was never more than reproduction information. When teachers talked to their students about the so-called facts of life, they rarely went beyond a discussion of how babies are conceived, and they almost never explained how conceptions can be avoided. Most people simply assumed that the spread of such knowledge would lead to general immorality. Today, however, there is a growing recognition that it may be immoral to deny young people this knowledge. Indeed, the threat of overpopulation has forced many governments in various parts of the world to reverse their moral positions and to propagate the separation of sex and reproduction for all of their citizens. In most countries, there are now public and private agencies which distribute contraception information in books, films, pamphlets, advertisements, and through personal counseling. At the same time, an increasing number of men and women demand full control over their own reproductive lives without any interference from society. |
