Dear Willow:

Let us take a look at a favorable review of Its Perfectly Normal by Christian Perring, Ph.D., Academic Chair of the Arts & Humanities Division and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College, Long Island. He is also editor of Metapsychology Online Review. The full review is found at the MentalHelp.net website. I will provide a running commentary/response as we go through several excerpts of this favorable review (my remarks in red):

The drawings also show the stages of sexual development in boys and girls, the many various different kinds of bodies people have, drawings of genitalia and the reproductive organs... [This might be appropriate for teenagers but not for younger children and then ONLY if the illustrations are clinical in nature.]

...different forms of contraception... [This is patently inappropriate since contraception is an abomination before God and a grave sin. While this may not be considered a problem for non-Catholics, it is a critical problem for Catholics.]

...and people engaged in talking about sex and even having sex. [There is no excuse and no justification of any sort to for showing illustrations of people having sex. The promoters can cry all day long that this is not pornographic, but it is. Worse, it is the rape of the imaginations of our children. There is NEVER a time that sex education of our children needs to show anyone having sex.]

There's nothing pornographic here and this is certainly not a how-to manual for any sexual activities.  The aim of the book is to help reassure children and teenagers that what they are experiencing in puberty is perfectly normal.  [But it is pornographic to have illustrations of people having sex, and under NO circumstances is it necessary to show this to help teenagers understand that they are "perfectly normal."]

The book is non-judgmental and accepting about homosexuality and bisexuality, and represents gay and lesbian sexuality as simply another way of being. [Homosexuality is NOT just "another way of being". Homosexuality is disordered and contrary to Natural Law. Homosexual sex is a grave sin. All sex outside of the marriage of a man and a woman is perverted, evil, and sin according to God. This "non-judgmental and accepting" presentation is nothing more than disguised indoctrination.]

One feature of It's Perfectly Normal that I like a lot is its attention to language.  It gives clear definitions of words and explains how different people have different names for the same thing. [I am not sure what "different names" means. If this means that the book lists slang words for the sexual organs, then that is vulgar and inappropriate.]

Strangely, the book says very little about virginity, and the word does not appear in the index.  Many young people place value in either staying a virgin or in losing their virginity, and so it is an important question what counts as losing one's virginity. [I find this interesting -- the de-emphasis on virginity and abstinence. Mere mention of this is not enough. Any genuine sex education that cares about the children should focus on virginity and abstinence.] 

These are a few excerpts. This favorable review is enough to condemn this book as inappropriate.

No decent parent, unless they have their head where the sun don't shine, would use this perverted book to teach their children. Since this book is a form of rape of the imagination, and a manual of perversion and sin in its treatment of homosexuality, discussion of things not needed, and pornographic illustrations of people having sex, I think that parents who use it ought to be up on charges of child abuse.

Almost all things coming out of Planned Parenthood are inappropriate. Planned Parenthood and its founder, Margret Sanger, propose outright evil. Sanger was in favor not only of aborting babies (especially black babies), but also killing babies after they are born if they did not meet her standards. Much of Sanger's eugenic philosophies were adopted by Adolf Hitler and used as justification to exterminate the Jews.

Planned Parenthood as an organization is, I believe, the most evil organization on the planet. Their "techniques" of sex education are exploitive, raping the imaginations of our children with their graphic illustrations. There have been many teenagers reporting that after viewing the illustrations in a Planned Parenthood sex education class, that they could not stop themselves from leaving the class and going out to have sex immediately.

Planned Parenthood also seeks to damage the relationship between parents and children. They actively encourage children to NOT talk to their parents, but to come to them instead about sexual issues.

These are not speculations or opinions, but hard facts reported by teenagers attending Planned Parenthood classes.

And, of course, there is a vested interest in Planned Parenthood encouraging a cultural economy that sexualizes children -- because they are the number one abortion provider in the United States. Their propaganda and rape of our children's minds helps to facilitate abortions from which they make millions.

Missouri needs to be praised for passing a law to make it illegal for Planned Parenthood to conduct sex education classes. Good going Missouri.

The Catholic Church is not "afraid" of sex. In fact, the Church embraces sexuality. The sexual image is the image God gives us for the relationship between Christ and His Church (His Bride). Sex is a sublime and sacred expression of love between a husband and wife.

The Church, however, asserts the teaching of God that all sex outside marriage is evil.

The people who truly hate sex and are "hung-up" are those who pervert sex. They haven't the courage and integrity to understand and to practice sexuality they way God designed it.

Unfortunately it is the perverts who legislate their perversion on the rest of us.

God bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

P.S. By the way, I have more than 10 years experience as a counselor and facilitator of people with sexual addictions. I have seen first-hand what the rape of the imagination can do to a child -- leading sometimes to a life-long sexual addiction. I have had to help pick up the pieces of hundreds and hundreds of people.

Planned Parenthood and their philosophy is dangerous, just as dangerous as the Playboy philosophy. The two are really just two sides of the same coin. These three forces -- Hefner (Playboy), Sanger (Planned Parenthood), and the pervert Kinsey (and his fraudulent studies) -- have done more damage to the soul of our culture than any other three people on the planet.

Shame on you for exposing your children to this filth. We will certainly be in prayer for you and your poor children.