Beware the dominant narratives about religion and sex. Things are usually more complicated.
In the United States, narratives of religion and sex education often invoke a cultural battle between the religious and the secular, with religions opposing secular instruction about sexuality in public schools. As the story is told, public sex education—forged in the 1960s sexual revolution as comprehensive sexuality education—provoked conservative Christians who fought against it in the name of traditional family values. These religious opponents later pushed for abstinence-only education to take its place.
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