Abstinence-only sex education

Re “Drug-resistant gonorrhea spreading rapidly in U.S.,” April 13

This article proves to me that abstinence-only sex education in our public schools should be encouraged, not ridiculed. Sixty years ago, when I took sex education in a public high school, abstinence before marriage and monogamy were taught as sensible and healthy norms for society.

It is a joke on our sexually active youth today that something from a drugstore can prevent or cure sexually transmitted diseases. Why does this health-obsessed society rage at cigarette smoke and trans fats but condone behavior that invites gonorrhea and worse?

No one can argue that when two virgins marry, they are likely to bond, rear their children together and avoid poverty. Imagine what society would be like if that were still taught to every child.

ELIZABETH NORLING

Yorba Linda