May 10, 2002

A pro-abortion book distributed at the current United Nations Child Summit endorses sexual gratification with children and other non-consenting persons, and even suggests that animals and inanimate objects are appropriate subjects for human "sexual response."

The UNICEF-funded book, aimed at mothers and teenagers, was given to delegates from Latin America. It promotes sexual activity and abortion among teens - and includes the following passage:

"Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner — whether heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons."

The bizarre recommendations also include encouragement for young women to have lesbian relations, according to the Washington Times, which first reported on the U.N. sex book in Friday editions:

"Sexual relations with a partner: Here we should insist there is no ideal or perfect relations between two or several people. ... This is why we encounter many differences among women. Some women like to have relations with men. And others with another woman."

The sex book was distributed by the Mexican government with U.N. funding, the Times said.

United Nations spokesman Alfred Ironside defended the publication.

"That book was a product of the Mexican government, supported by UNICEF financially as part of UNICEF's support to the Mexican government," he told the paper.

"We do everything we do in full agreement with the governments we support. We do not operate independently."

Ironside said that the book was "intended as a training manual for people working with adolescent women to prevent teen pregnancy" and noted that it carried a disclaimer that explained "the views of the writers do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations."

Still, the controversial material has forced the U.N. to halt the book's distribution:

"A very small number [of books] were produced - fewer than a thousand," Ironside told the Times. "It was pulled out of circulation when the content was more carefully reviewed."

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