Should Kids Be Encouraged To Experiment With Sex and Drugs?

If I'm not mistaken, American kids are already regularly encouraged to experiment with sex and drugs both by their peers and ceaselessly, relentlessly and overwhelmingly by our culture. We are all barraged with ads for alcohol, pharmaceuticals, cigarettes, caffeine. We start giving young kids drugs like ritalin and anti-depressants. Our culture is about drugs. As for sex, scan the covers of the magazine rack next time you're at the store. Even teenage programming is predominantly about sex. The above ads for drugs are also about sex. I'm not judging whether there is anything wrong with that. Just pointing out that the speaker apparently is preaching to the choir. The choir is just too damn high to realize it perhaps.  more