Is Sex Eroding Moral Values

s they have scarcely acquired, unlearning values taught at home, and concluding that questions of right and wrong are always merely subjective.
             We live in a sexual world, but Americans have been slow to fully acknowledge its enormous impact. Among those interviewed in the Janus Report who were 18 to 26 years old, 21% of the men and 15% of the women had had sexual intercourse by age 14; a small percentage of them had had their first intercourse before age 10. "It ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people," said G. K. Chesterton in 1910. If that guarded approach applies anywhere, moral education would seem to be the place. "The Day America Told the Truth," a 1990 survey of American beliefs and values, contains this scene from a California high school: "It's Friday afternoon and the students are leaving a class in 'social living.' The teacher's parting words are, 'have a great weekend. Be safe. Buckle up. Just say 'No'... and if you can't say 'No,' then use a condom! (Kilpatrick, 53) Although the teacher in this example gives a nod in the direction of abstinence, her approach is basically of the "responsible sex" variety.
             Sex is an image that we as Americans have grown accustomed too. Sex is everything. If you're good looking, then you're having sex. If you're sexy, then you're having sex. If you're having sex, you're popular, and people are
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