Peter Hitchens on sex education.

I've only listened to the first few minutes but that is completely ridiculous ( the measures alleged to have been introduced to schools) and this is coming from a moderniser!

To rephrase a wise man, the Hitchens brothers are dying in the wrong order...

Christopher >> Peter

I disagree. Christopher was pretentious and naive. Peter on the other hand, has a sense of humour and speaks a lot more blunt truth than Christopher does.

To rephrase a wise man, the Hitchens brothers are dying in the wrong order...

Indeed.

Are you saying that you want Peter Hitchens to be dead?

His views are that of a nanny-state Christian conservative. Sweep sex under the carpet and pretend it isn't going on. His argument also hinges on conflating correlation with causation.

Christopher >> Peter


I want women to have access to the morning after pill because want them to have the choice. It's got nothing to do with handing power from "the family" to the state. It's about people have access to this stuff and having a choice. It;s about individual choice over the likes of Peter who would probbaly support the state interfering in people's sex lives. What does he want. The morning after pill banned? How is that not the state interfering. The concept of marriage is about the state butting in people's personal lives.

His views are that of a nanny-state Christian conservative. Sweep sex under the carpet and pretend it isn't going on. His argument also hinges on conflating correlation with causation.

What people want is meaningless, what actually happens is what matters.

His argument hinges on the government manipulating the people in a way he dislikes, rather than a way he likes.

I haven't listened to the thing OP posted as I don't have time right now. But I remember once seeing Hitchens on a programme (I think it was question time) and he was basically saying that sex education causes teenage pregnancies to increase. Did he bring that up again in the thing OP posted?

I just feel sorry for those in certain states of the USA, where such views are taken more seriously and abstinence-only sex education is actually a real thing in a lot of schools. They get taught very misleading and inaccurate things, often motivated by religion. At least in this country such attitudes aren't taken very seriously by most people.

What happens?

Well women have a much better lot in life and control of their own destiny after the sexual revolution happened. Easily available contraception, morning after pills and access to legal abortions have all helped done this. It's been overwhelmingly positive. That's what happened.



So he is a hypocrite then.