Les arguments de l'obscurantisme hédonique

[En anglais]

Voici quelques argumentations dangereuses quand on veut éduquer les gens à une sexualité responsable.

Some*    ”Chastity cannot be a virtue because it is not a natural state” [Dr. Harry Benjamin, endocrinologist and Kinsey advocate, in the Introduction to pedophile Rene Guyon’s book Sexual Ethics, 1948].

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”Our alternative solution is to be ready as educators and parents to help young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage.  By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt.  We must also relieve those who have them of their fears and guilt feelings, and we must be ready to provide young boys and girls with the best contraception measures available so they will have the necessary means to achieve sexual satisfaction without having to risk possible pregnancy.  We owe this to them” [Dr. Lena Levine.  “Psychosexual Development.”  Planned Parenthood News, Summer 1953, page 10.

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”The adolescent years are, among other things, for learning how to integrate sex usefully and creatively into daily living.  Therefore, we must accept that adolescent sexual experimentation is not just inevitable, but actually necessary for normal development. ... The adolescent years are, among other things, for learning how to integrate sex usefully and creatively into daily living.  Sexual experimentation is a moral and appropriate decision for adolescents ... I advocate discussion of it [sex], so young people know they have choices beginning with masturbation, of course, and petting to climax and mutual orgasm before moving on to intercourse. ... An extramarital affair that’s really solid might have a very good result” [Mary Steichen Calderone, M.D., founder of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and its President from 1964 to 1982, Medical Director of Planned Parenthood/World Population (PP/WP) from 1982 to 1993, and President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR).  Quoted in “Woman Favors Sex Testing by Adolescents.” Minneapolis Tribune, October 13, 1965, and “An Interview With Mary Calderone.”  Playboy Magazine, April 1970].

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”No religious views, no moral standards, are to deflect the child from the overriding purposes of self‑discovery, self‑assertion, and self‑gratification” [Planned Parenthood Sex Education and Mental Health Report, 1979].

     *    ”FIRST PRIZE:  A Solid Gold Condom:  “From using a condom you will learn/No deposit means no return.”  SECOND PRIZE:  A Bronzed Wallet with Circular [Condom] Indentation:  “Rubberizing copulation/Puts a cap on population.”  THIRD PRIZE:  A Gross of Condoms (144) for the Night of Your Life:  “When you rise ... Condomize.”  FINALISTS.  “Twins are bad, triplets worse/Use a condom, safety first!”  “Rubbers are jolly, rubbers are fun/Better to use one than end up a mum”“ [Winners of the Population Institute’s “Condom Couplet Contest,” announced on “Condom Day,” February 20, 1978.  Described in the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood’s “Searching for Alternatives to Teenage Pregnancy,” 1980].

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”We are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity” [Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in the Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1986, page V-1.

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”God knew when he made us that he has given us a built‑in sex drive to go out and sow our seeds.  He has given us promiscuous genes.  I think it would be wrong for the church to condemn people who have followed their instincts” [Richard Holloway, the Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh, quoted in “The Edge:  The Quotebag,” The Oregonian, June 26, 1995, page C1.

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”The big lie is that it’s easy to be monogamous, and that everybody is.  If you believe that, you’d better choose well.  We can’t go back to the values we had because they don’t exist anymore.  For the most part, women are not virgins anymore, so to teach virginity doesn’t work” [Carol Cassell, former Director of Education for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Past President of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT).  Family Life Educator, Fall 1987, page 19, also quoted in Focus on the Family Citizen, December 1989].