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BY KERRY LEARY

ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN

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A sex education program-- that some find too sexy. Some parents are up in arms about a controversial plan in New York City that could give middle and high students “too much information” about sex. WNBC has more.

“Students-not yet teenagers-would be asked to rate risky activities for pregnancy and disease; including intercourse with and without condoms, oral and anal sex, according to the group.”

The New York Post reviewed some of the curriculum and found a list of proposed assignments:

“--High-school students go to stores and jot down condom brands, prices and features such as lubrication...
-- Teens are referred to resources... which [explore] topics like ‘doggie-style’ and other positions...phone sex, oral sex with braces, fetishes, porn stars, vibrators and bestiality.”

Considering the carnal curriculum-- an anchor for WPIX thinks the program may be crossing a line.

“I dont know about you, but what does a middle school student need to know about bestiality, and you know, porn stars? I don’t really get that. I mean there’s one thing preaching abstinence, sex, STD’s, the basics- but bestiality, getting into the nitty gritty, I don’t know.”

A Princeton professor points out in a column for The New York Times-- the kids may be all-for the class, but it’s the parents who should have the final say.

“Unless a broader parental opt out is added, New York City’s new policies will continue to usurp parents’ just (and constitutionally recognized) authority. Turning a classroom into a mandatory catechism lesson for a contested ideology is a serious violation of parental rights, and citizens of every ideological hue should stand up and oppose it.”

But-- in an interview with WCBS radio-- Mayor Bloomberg says New York City should be safe rather than sorry when it comes to sexual ed.

“We have too many kids, that unfortunately at a very young age, go out, don’t practice safe sex, and they have babies out of wedlock at an age where they probably are, not quite, a handful are, but most aren’t mature enough to really understand the responsibilities of being a parent.”

The New York City Parents' Choice Coalition is taking a stand against the new program- - urging parents to opt their children out of the classes. The group is pushing for an abstinence-based alternative to be offered. A Jezebel blogger says-- bad idea.

“...implementing an abstinence-only program is a much quicker route to depression, disease, and pregnancy than telling kids to use a condom if they have sex.”

The sex education program is set to begin in January and the classes will be co-ed.

Transcript by Newsy.