€Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read,€ Groucho Marx once quipped.

Some books should be left inside dogs.

In the €dog book€ category is the misleadingly-titled, Health Facts workbook, a box set of lesson plans the administration of New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the mayor's new Chancellor of Education Dennis Walcott want introduced into city middle and high schools for purposes yet unclear but ostensibly intended to deal with New York's out-of-control illegitimate birth rate, STD's, and abortions.

Titled €The Health Smart Curriculum,€ were it a college class, it would best be titled, €Perversions 101, How to Encourage Childhood Sexual Perversity.€

The book, the proposed sex manual, is heartily supported by the New York Civil Liberties Union, of course, and involves instructions for kids as young as eleven on everything Bloomberg and Walcott think sixth graders have been clamoring to know about: oral sex, foot fetishes, consensual erotica, mutual masturbation, and phone sex.

More sophisticated high schoolers will be enlightened on sexual positions, porn stars, bestiality, and shopping for condoms, things every teen needs to know, in the opinions of liberal Mayor Bloomberg and his hired lackey, to insure they engage in safe sex.

Condoms would certainly help in that regard but information on how missionaries did it, Linda Lovelace's tricks, and intercourse with animals fit in with safe sex is something of a mystery to the uninformed.

It's no mystery at all to the proponents of the sex-ed proposition who are guided by their mindset, their jaded attitudes toward children, their 1960€s view of, €If it feels good, do it!€ their general liberal philosophy of indulging the baser forms of human behavior, and their misguided assumptions that more rational people share their misconceptions.

Opponents of New York City's sex scheme, including the Parents' Choice Coalition and other Big Apple parents with a brain€"and there are some€"are objecting not only to the content of Health Smart but to the lack of emphasis on abstinence and the fact most classes will be mandatory and thinking parents won't be accorded the right to opt-out for their kids.

Liberals are all in favor of freedom of expression, civil rights, and individuality but not when those privileges come into conflict with their ideology. In those eventualities, you either tow their line or they'll hang you on it.

In a rare serious moment, Groucho Marks might have said, €Let Health Smart stay inside dogs where it can do no damage.€ (See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5813.)