Soviet schools will launch a program of sex education
The announcement was buried on page 4 of Moscow Pravda (circ. 230,000), in the last paragraph of a sleepy article headlined DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. "In the shortest possible time," the text read, "the courses Hygiene and Sex Education and Ethics and Psychology of Family Life must be taught in all the nation's schools." Translation: after a long and bitter debate pitting parents against bureaucrats, compulsory sex education is coming to the Soviet Union.
Traditionally, sex rears its head at only one point in the Soviet curriculum, in an eighth-grade course on the mechanics...
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