Should Your 12-Year-Old Be Forced To Learn Anal Sex?

When is the appropriate age for students to be taught how to engage in oral and anal sex? This is not a question most parents have probably thought a lot about, but it's one that legislators on Beacon Hill are forcing us to ask.

Eighty-three state representatives and senators have co-sponsored legislation titled "An Act Relative to Healthy Youth," a version of which is up for a vote in the Senate on Thursday. If passed into law, it would mandate that all public schools in Massachusetts that offer "comprehensive sexual health education" ensure that it is "age appropriate." That certainly sounds reasonable, but how exactly is "age appropriate" defined in the bill? According to Senate Bill 2113, "age appropriate" means "topics, messages and teaching methods suitable to particular ages or age groups of children and adolescents, based on developing cognitive, emotional and behavioral capacity typical for the age or age group." If that clears it up for you, read no further. I would like to think that's what most of the legislators supporting this bill did. Would they still support it if they knew the truth?