Sex Education

by Aquilino Polaino-Lorente

“Sex education” is often discussed today, but mainly in order to include under this expression programs of information on human sexuality that are generally presented to children and adolescents in the context of schools. These programs would have as their objective furnishing enough biological information for children to avoid the heavy consequences of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. This kind of sexual education is necessarily incomplete because it leaves to one side the relational, affective and spiritual aspects of human love. Read More...