We need more sex (research)

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, perhaps the most well-known sex educator/researcher today, told WebMD in an interview that referencing Alfred Kinsey's work in her own lectures was "standing on the shoulders of a giant."\n"You can see farther," she said. \nThe issue today is that some people still can't see past their own misgivings about sex in American culture. The Bush administration plans to increase federal funding for the ineffective "Abstinence Only" sex education programs in schools. AIDS, though currently out of favor in the national media, is still a huge problem, and getting bigger. Everyone knows that South Africa is the world AIDS capital, with one in eight people infected. Where the conversation often ends is when trying to figure out why a population so at risk continues to engage in risky activity. And for some reason, violence in movies has always been more acceptable than sex. The recently released movie "Kinsey" had to argue against a possible NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America because of some full-frontal nudity. On the other side of the coin, rarely do slasher flicks or bloody horror films have to worry about being branded NC-17.\nThe Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council has released books and pamphlets on how to keep Gay and Lesbian support groups out of schools, for fear of children being exposed to a homosexual agenda.\nIf knowledge is a light onto a dark path, why are so many opposed to the pursuit of knowledge on a subject that everyone does but very few completely understand?\nSex affects everyone, of every age, in every class and in every state. It is only logical, then, that sex research will help everyone, of every age, and so on.\nBecause when it comes to sex, it's one case where ignorance is not bliss.