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Letter: Letters : Casual but careful?

Published 13 December 1997

From Simon Goodman

Simon.Goodman@merck.de

Good news from the UN that unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted
diseases drop when children are given sex education
(This Week, 1 November, p 29).

But the interpretation that they are necessarily less promiscuous is odd. It
could as well be just the opposite, only now the children are taking the
appropriate care.

Issue no. 2112 published 13 December 1997

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