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The Continuing Crisis
In September a British charity, the Family Planning Association, distributed a cartoon booklet, produced with government funds, intended to teach 9-to-11-year-old children about healthy sexuality (one drawing depicts a little girl apparently masturbating in the bath). Also in September, the British community-service organization Connexions distributed a primer for teens on sensible marijuana smoking–actually a leaflet printed to resemble an oversize package of rolling papers. And for the fall semester the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor offered another section of its sociology course “How to Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation” (according to the professor, “initiation” refers to the enforcement of supposedly right and wrong ways to be gay, not to the recruitment of straight students).
