After a national moral panic campaign by right-wing blogs and social media accounts, Idaho conservatives are pressuring public officials to suspend porn literacy classes being offered as part of the state’s sex education programs.
Almost three decades after Bill Clinton fired his Surgeon General for merely stating that masturbation “is a part of human sexuality, and it's a part of something that perhaps should be taught,” the subject of sex ed finds itself once again embroiled in a culture war which, like that 1994 incident, is stoked by sensationalistic press reports.