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| Program Number | S0063 |
| Title | Sex Education |
| PBS Number | 203 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Fort, Joel, 1929- - MD, Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of California at
Berkeley, author of The New Sexuality and The Pleasure Seekers 2) Calderone, Mary Steichen, 1904- - MD, public-health specialist, President of the Sex Information and Education Council 3) Van den Haag, Ernest. - psychoanalyst, Adjunct Professor of Social Philosophy at New York University |
| Taped on | Oct 3, 1972 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | Oct 15, 1972 |
| Duration | 59:23 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | Dr. Calderone was widely regarded as the principal pioneer of sex education in the schools, although she insists that her interest is in sex education for "everybody; all of us." The two sides in this debate can agree that, as Professor van den Haag puts it, "even if you present five different value systems and present them, so to speak, neutrally, the major effect on the student would be, 'It doesn't matter,' which is another value system." But as to the place of sex education in the schools, never the twain shall meet. EvdH: "I agree with Dr. Fort that there is a great deal of learning, if not formal education, about sex going on from all kinds of sources. Under the circumstances, why is it necessary also to teach it in schools?" MC: "As a corrective." JF: "Because most of that is not good information." EvdH: "Well, why do you assume that teachers have good information to give?" JF: "I don't assume that either." MC: "I don't assume the parents have good information either." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Sex instruction -- United States. |
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