In response to Children Screaming To Be Heard’s article THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT CHANGED THE LAWS

Yes, high (and low) level pedophiles stalk and abuse our children with impunity. Yes, they are trafficked and murdered.

Yes, this is condoned by the criminals in high places.

No, sex education is not the cause, nor is it the problem.

Children should be educated about their bodies by their parents, but parents may be both lax and ignorant. It should not fall to the schools, but then to whom should it fall if the parents are not able/willing to do that?

Children growing up in ignorance about how their bodies function run the very real risk of not use them very well, according to my experience.

When I was in Medical School, my Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology asked me if I wanted to participate in a unique sex education class: The Board of Education of New York City had changed its policy and allowed girls who had gotten pregnant and had babies to return to High School to finish their public education.

The girls had requested a sex education program.

I attended the class as their instructor with the assumption that they actually knew all about sex.
They knew virtually nothing.

Some of them had been having sex since early childhood with relatives and family “friends” so they honestly did not know that the same activity that they had been participating in since age 3 was responsible for their getting pregnant.

These were not stupid girls/women. They were uneducated and lived in a culture where sex was taboo, but their bodies, though mysterious, were not. They literally hung on my every word and could not wait for the next session. Had they been informed and protected, the likelihood that they would now be 13, 14, 15 and 16 year old mothers was, I believe, very low. But part of this information and protection would have been education on how to protect themselves, whom to turn to for protection, etc.

Indeed, if our children are being preyed upon, keeping them in ignorance that they are prey, and thus giving them no tools with which to protect themselves, is the wrong approach.

Pedopheliacs are criminals, as is anyone who forces physical contact on those below the age of real, meaningful consent or on anyone above it. We need to teach our children that so they do not become either prey or predators.

It is, after all, the truth that will set you free, not ignorance.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima