Experts in Sex Field Say Conservatives Interfere With Health and Research

[Blackaxe]

For years, Advocates for Youth, a Washington-based organization devoted to adolescent sexual health, says, it received government grants without much trouble. Then last year it was subjected to three federal reviews.

James Wagoner, the president of Advocates for Youth, said the reviews were prompted by concerns among some members of Congress that his group was using public funds to lobby against programs that promoted sexual abstinence before marriage. Although that was not the case, Mr. Wagoner said, the government officials made their point.

"For 20 years, it was about health and science, and now we have a political ideological approach," he said. "Never have we experienced a climate of intimidation and censorship as we have today."

Mr. Wagoner is among the professionals in sex-related fields who have started speaking out against what they say is growing interference from conservatives in and out of government with their work in research, education and disease prevention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/politics/11sex.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1089518524-drSJNx+ph8ttHyTzff7h/Q

[shanti]

1. they want our culture to return to the fifties...

and it never will.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Yeah.. and the scary part is...

It's not even the 1950's... more like the 1650's...

[Cats Against Frist]

3. Actually, more like the 1250s

The Dark Ages

***edited to add that I always think the Dark Ages happened up until the Renaissance, that I, quite unscientifically, place around 1300.

Maybe more like the 850s.

[PartyPooper]

6. Well, I'd push it back to the 450's when Rome occupied Britain.

:eyes:

[girl gone mad]

4. What would they ever do..

if we eliminated the spread of STDs? Their worst nightmare is a world in which sex is really safe and all women have easy access to birth control.

[shoelace414]

5. If I just knew more about abstinence

I would have not had sex until marriage. why oh why did they teach me about condoms? that just made me want to have sex!

[truthisfreedom]

7. the GOP... "party of yesteryear"