A visiting United States psychiatrist says in sexuality – “and I’m not talking about morality, I’m a physician” – the ideal was one sexual partnership for life, delayed until adulthood.
“People that are able to achieve that – not that this is so easy – never have to worry about these myriad health issues.”
“Health issues included STIs and human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a key factor in cervical cancers”, says Dr Miriam Grossman, the United States psychiatrist brought to New Zealand by Family First to speak at a conference in Auckland on Thursday.
She says teenagers are being let down by sex education that doesn’t tell them it’s best to wait until you’re an adult and have one sexual partner for life.
Family Planning disputes Grossman’s characterisation of New Zealand’s sex education.
Craig Young, writing on the gaynz.com blogsite says “For a change, Grossman isn’t a fundamentalist Protestant or conservative Catholic – although she is a religious social conservative, namely an Orthodox Jew.”
Young says Grossman is a regular guest of US Christian Right organisations like Focus on the Family which he describes as “fixated on a narrow range of religious social conservative obsessions- opposition to feminism, opposition to LGBT legislative reform, opposition to abortion rights, opposition to comprehensive sex education and nothing that really affects real families all that much.”
Dr Grossman’s website describes her as a board certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She writes and speaks to parents, students, educators, and health professionals internationally on the dangers of political correctness in her profession. She is the author of You’re Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Education and How They Harm Your Child and Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student.
Dr Grossman said she took up writing and speaking on the “harms” of sex education after her experiences as a campus psychiatrist at the University of California.
She saw many female students who were panicking about having, or possibly having, a sexually transmitted infection, being pregnant, having had an abortion, or being confused about their emotional attachment to a man who had no intention of becoming emotionally attached to them.
“They didn’t understand we are wired, both men and women, but especially women, to become emotionally attached to people we are intimate with.”
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