In the spring of 1968 Dr.; Gerald Sandson, a child psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and advocate of sex education, met with a group of fifty teachers and counselors who were attending a sex education workshop. He was not pleased with what he found: "Some had their own sexual axes to grind; others almost relished their new-found sanction to pronounce four-letter words." He also observed that "few showed any knowledge of child dynamics or an appreciation that this was a subject they should approach with care." Sandson acknowledged that a second-workshop-sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools drew a more responsible and sensitive group of educators and that the first group he had observed might not have been truly representative.. Nevertheless, his, concerns remained, and Sandson concluded that if sex education was to be undertaken in the U.S., educators should...