A Sexual Rights Agenda

Dear President Obama:

For months, I've been predicting that when you win, nothing will change regarding sex. I've said you won't stop the government's War On Sex; you won't demand respect for sexual rights as human rights; you won't prevent religious fanatics from controlling non-believers' sex lives.

You now have your big chance: prove me wrong. Here's what you need to do:

* End funding for abstinence-only training in public schools.

* End the Department of Justice's war on adult entertainment. Keep the war on child porn. Make it clear they're two different things.

* Decriminalize all consensual sex that teens have with other teens. Decriminalize teens sharing photos of themselves having sex.

* Increase financial support for Planned Parenthood, an investment proven to reduce poverty and domestic violence.

* Take the moral leadership to decrease abortion -- by funding contraception services and comprehensive sex education, not by criminalizing abortion.