Un-American activities
America’s new sex czar is a gynaecologist from Massachusetts who has said that birth control is “demeaning to women” and “pre-marital sex is really modern germ warfare”. Eric Keroack, 46, has been named by President Bush as federal overseer of US family-planning programmes. These provide millions of dollars for schools to teach that anything sexual beyond “light kissing” is dangerous, condoms don’t protect you, and the only way to avoid getting up the duff with every disease in the book is to save yourself for your wedding night.
Keroack goes further and claims that teenage sex blunts the brain’s ability to be happily married later on because it gets hooked young on the hormone oxytocin, produced at orgasm, and then suffers withdrawal without a “fix”. Before becoming deputy assistant secretary for population affairs, Keroack worked in Christian-backed clinics opposed to contraception and abortion, pioneering a tactic that insists that pregnant women are given an ultrasound scan and shown the image of the foetus before being granted terminations.
Meanwhile, latest reports show that births to teenage mothers in the US are at an historic low, as much from condom use as abstinence.