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Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.