{"id":330585,"date":"2025-05-03T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330585"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:00:41","slug":"where-todays-sex-ed-came-from-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/where-todays-sex-ed-came-from-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Where today’s sex ed came from… and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many parents believe sex education is simply part of a standard education, but a closer look at its origins paints a disturbing picture of its true nature. Few are aware that some of the power players in sex education today have an extensive history with the porn industry, direct ties to a researcher who recruited pedophiles for his ‘research,’ and ties to a man who wanted to destigmatize bestiality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the founders and originating leaders of SIECUS (originally known as the <\/span>Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States<\/span><\/a>) \u2014 a member of the <\/span>Future of Sex Education<\/span><\/a> (FoSE) <\/span>coalition of sex-miseducators<\/span><\/a> \u2014may be surprising. As previously reported by Live Action News, SIECUS was founded by the former medical director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, <\/span>Mary Steichen Calderone<\/span><\/a>. Helping her to fund the creation of the group (today known as SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change) was <\/span>Playboy founder<\/span><\/a> Hugh Hefner, whose <\/span>Foundation<\/span><\/a> also funded Planned Parenthood \u2014 and also funded a group known as the Kinsey Institute, named after Alfred Kinsey, a man dubbed the \u201cFather of the Sexual Revolution.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Warped methodology, warped ideas<\/b><\/p>\n

Alfred Kinsey believed that <\/span>children<\/span> were sexual beings <\/span>from birth<\/span><\/i> \u2014 but he wasn’t the first to make this claim.<\/span><\/p>\n

This idea was promoted in the <\/span>highly scrutinized and controversial<\/span><\/a> psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Freud’s fellow psychoanalyst, Carl G. Jung, <\/span>accused<\/span><\/a> him of \u201cprojecting an observation from adult life onto the child\u2019s mind,\u201d and ultimately rejected \u201cFreud\u2019s notion of the polymorphic perverse sexuality of children.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Freud\u2019s psychosexual theory is often criticized as being “<\/span>hard to test scientifically, leaving questions about its validity<\/span><\/a>,” and suffering from a lack of data \u2014 since his theories were based on <\/span>one victim of incestuous<\/span><\/i> sexual abuse<\/span><\/i>. Despite this, early <\/span>SIECUS Report<\/span><\/a> contributors called Freud a “giant seminal” figure while alluding to the idea that Freud\u2019s psychosexual theory did not go far enough in justifying the assumption that children are inherently sexual from birth. \u201cFreud\u2019s theory of a latency period, which alleges a <\/span>diminution of interest<\/b> in sexual matters from infancy to late childhood, <\/span>created an acceptance of a wish fulfillment which saw children as innocent sexual beings <\/b>(emphasis added),\u201d they wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, as warped and unscientific as Freud’s theories were, the SIECUS authors took issue with Freud’s presupposition that children were <\/span>innocent<\/b> and somewhat disinterested in what he described as inherent sexual desires. Were the SIECUS authors desiring a scientific justification to support their unsettling claims that children’s sexual desires are inherently similar or equal to those of adults? It is this type of perverted ideology often illustrated in the depraved justification of pedophiles and sexual abusers.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Kinsey came on the scene, he attempted to provide a more scientific approach to sexology by gathering data. However, as Live Action News author Bettina diFiore <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> in the \u201c<\/span>Built on Sand<\/span><\/a>\u201d series, Kinsey used <\/span>disturbing<\/span><\/a> and unscientific methods to obtain this data \u2014 which included <\/span>coaching pedophiles<\/span><\/a> to use a stopwatch to record their violent sexual abuse of infants and children and to document their graphic observations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded on <\/span>Darwinistic evolutionary<\/span><\/a> ideology, Kinsey’s and Freud\u2019s theories fell flat in proving anything remotely scientific. Research Associate <\/span>Jeffrey Escoffier<\/span><\/a> with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research <\/span>noted<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe Kinsey approach not only failed to replace Freudian theory with any sophisticated theory of its own, but it also failed to establish a viable research tradition or a more robust empirical account of the individual’s sexual behavior.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, SIECUS has historically based its sex-ed program upon Kinsey’s flawed claims and theories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After Kinsey’s warped ‘methodology’ came to light, public outrage against Kinsey led SIECUS and its supporters to distance and excuse themselves from his sexually abusive tactics in the <\/span>1996 SIECUS Report<\/span><\/a>. Yet later, the group attempted to <\/span>minimize<\/span><\/i> Kinsey\u2019s active participation in hiding the severe sexual abuse of children by pedophiles, <\/span>referring<\/span><\/a> to Kinsey as \u201cThe most significant agent of change in American cultural life in the 20th century.\u201d They labeled those opposed to Kinsey’s ‘research’ as “far-right.”<\/span><\/p>\n

However, in addition to SIECUS and the <\/span>Kinsey Research Center<\/span><\/a> (originally the <\/span>Institute for Sex Research<\/span><\/a>) sharing the same early donor \u2014 Hugh Hefner \u2014 the two organizations also shared originating trustees and board members. One of those individuals was <\/span>Wardell Pomeroy<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Promoting incest and bestiality<\/b><\/p>\n

A <\/span>founding board member of SIECUS<\/span><\/a>, Wardell Pomeroy worked <\/span>alongside Alfred Kinsey<\/span><\/a> for two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pomeroy held disturbing beliefs regarding incest and the sexual abuse of children. He told <\/span>Time<\/span><\/a> in 1980, \u201cIt is time to admit that incest need not be a perversion or a symptom of mental illness\u2026. Incest between… children and adults… can sometimes be beneficial.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an article entitled \u201c<\/span>A New Look at Incest<\/span><\/a>,\u201d which was printed in pornographic publications, Pomeroy further justified his unsettling beliefs, stating:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We find many beautiful and mutually satisfying [sexual] relationships between fathers and daughters. These may be transient or ongoing, but they have no harmful effects\u2026. Incest between adults and younger children can also prove to be a satisfying and enriching experience\u2026. Incest can be a satisfying, non-threatening, and even an enriching emotional experience, as I said earlier.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

In the book, “<\/span>Boys and Sex<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>“<\/span><\/i> Pomeroy<\/span><\/a> targeted teenage boys, even discouraging the negative stigmatization of bestiality, presenting it as if the practice is something that merely “happens” to some people:<\/span><\/p>\n

While most people think it\u2019s at least immoral, and repulsive as well, it\u2019s practiced around the world and has been known as far back as the ancient world. In our time, about 4 percent of city boys and 17 percent of farm boys, according to Kinsey\u2019s figures, engaged in sexual behavior with animals, and 4 percent of both city and farm girls had done it. As to whether it\u2019s immoral or not, that depends entirely on the point of view\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This kind (bestiality) of sexual behavior may never happen to you, because the incidence is so low. If it does, you would be best advised to keep any knowledge of it to yourself so you can avoid either ridicule or punishment, or both. You can feel secure in your knowledge that you\u2019re not a monster, no matter what society may think about it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Given the close relationship between Pomeroy, <\/span>SIECUS founder Mary Calderone<\/span><\/a>, and the porn industry, <\/span>SIECUS\u2019 position<\/span><\/a> referring to pornography as “art” and stating that pornography “can serve a variety of important needs in the lives of countless individuals” should come as no surprise.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n