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Harold I. Lief, MD

JAMA. 1970;212(11):1864-1867.

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The controversy swirling around the issue of sex education in the nation's schools has not affected the teaching of sex and marriage counseling in our medical schools. In the educational objective to increase the ability of the nation's physicians to deal more effectively and competently with the sexual and marital problems of their patients, it is difficult to discern a communist plot to undermine the morality of the country. Parenthetically, anent these absurd charges, the leading newspapers behind the iron curtain assert that sex education is a capitalist plot aimed at seducing communist youth to decrease their serious concern with social problems in favor of a frivolous attitude toward life.

The recognition that there were serious deficiencies in the preparation of physicians to deal with a very important aspect of practice came slowly at first, but then accelerated. In 1963, less than a handful of schools had any formal program . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

Footnotes
Read before the 118th annual convention of the American Medical Association, New York, July 14,1969.

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