Chapter 7 - Dr. Judith Reisman

grants to The Sex Information and Education Council of the United
States to support its nationwide educational programs.”
As Christie Hefner added, Playboy also provided the original seed
money for SIECUS:
Through the Playboy Foundation, Hefner put his money where
his mouth was. It made the initial grant to establish an Office of
Research Services of the Sex Information and Education Council
of the U.S. (SIECUS) in the late 60s.
So, has such funding been a covert form of taxpayer-subsidy for Christy Hefner of Playboy Magazine,
and SIECUS patron.
the pornography industry (remember, Playboy was the corporate spokesperson
for the “Media Coalition,” with its seedier pornography members). Did Mr. Hefner give
SIECUS its “initial grant to establish an Office of Research Services” knowing that SIECUS would
serve his corporate product interests in the schoolrooms of America? Did Mr. Hefner know the
“nationwide educational programs” of SIECUS “education” would push “sexually explicit materials”
to school children? For, under SIECUS’s sex education brainchild “Comprehensive Health Education,”
Planned Parenthood and colleagues have delivered “sexually explicit materials” to Tom Sawyer
and Becky Thatcher for decades. Remember, SIECUS sex information is directed at elementary and
secondary school children, not college youths. Listen to the SIECUS February/March 1996 “Position
Statement” on “Sexually Explicit Materials”:
When sensitively used in a manner appropriate to the viewer’s age and developmental
level, sexually explicit visual, printed, or on-line materials can be valuable educational or
personal aids helping to reduce ignorance and confusion and contributing to a wholesome
concept of sexuality [p. 21].
It is still illegal to sell “sexually explicit materials” (pornography) to children under the age of 18
years. Posturing as an independent scholastic group training school teachers, has SIECUS been
covertly desensitizing and recruiting millions of vulnerable, child consumers for the pornography
trade? Is this pornography insider-trading with stock options, funded with taxpayer dollars? In an
undated 1980s SIECUS press release, SIECUS claimed it sought donations to combat children’s
exposure to sexually explicit materials:
The overwhelming majority of
parents had never discussed
sexual issues with their children
at all.... That’s why SIECUS
exists.... [I]t must not be left to
X-rated movies, TV ads, and
sleazy magazines, as the Moral
Majority would have us do.
SIECUS director Mary Calderone
and other SIECUS associates have been
advantaged by the pornography commerce—appearing
as interviewees in
Playboy and other sex trade materials,
This Planned Parenthood booklet, “You’ve Changed the Combination,” typifies
the organization’s use of the Kinsey Model in sex education circa 1974 (The
author has blacked-out some explicit imagery.)
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