Twenty-five years ago, the Green Party of Rhineland Westphalia called for the deletion of articles 174 to 176 of the German Penal Code, concerning sexual abuse in status of dependence and pedophilia. To justify this request it was said: "Sexuality practiced in common agreement is a form of communication between human beings of any age, sex, religion or race, and should be safe from any limitation". Sex with children "is pleasant for both parties, productive, stimulates the development; at summary: it is something positive". "Sexual relations entered into mutually agreement should not be criminalized... It is not acceptable that adults who take seriously the sexual desires of children and adolescents and have amorous relations with them are threatened with sentences of up to ten years' imprisonment." This text was later modified, but from entrance it was approved with 76 votes in favor and 53 against and became part of the party's program.

The case of the German Greens is not an isolated one. In the context of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the convergence of approaches inspired by Marx and Freud, undermining the old taboos of traditional sexual morality seemed an inseparable goal of the struggle against the capitalist-bourgeois social order. The phenomenon goes beyond the realm of politics and becomes perceptible in pedagogy and culture in general. The erosion of old values becomes a central element of the anti-authoritarian and emancipatory educational program.

The fact is that the exaltation of sexuality in all its modalities implies admitting pedophilia, in theory and in internship. Many experiments of "alternative lifestyles", which proliferated during the seventies and eighties in the West, with those communes in which, in principle, everything was shared, also included the sexual initiation of children.

We are familiar with the resounding failure of these supposedly revolutionary social formulas, but we seem to find it difficult to draw all the lessons from their experience. If certain causes are given, it is inevitable that the corresponding effects will follow. In the face of the scandalous events of pedophilia that have come to public attention in various countries, it is essential to apply zero tolerance and, consequently, to punish those responsible. It seems equally opportune to review and tighten codes and regulations where legislation was too lax or left disturbing grey areas.

And in addition to attending to the victims and punishing the guilty, it is urgent to get ahead of the curve and work on prevention. If we do not address the cultural and educational factors that, to a large extent, are at the origin of these unfortunate incidents, we will spend our energy on pursuing effects without attacking the causes that produce them. Sexual promiscuity as a program and as a way of life has consequences. Some manifestations of gender ideology, heirs of the revolution of the sixties, claim to have left behind the concepts of nature and normality. Even the idea of gender identity, a construction partner-cultural construction that attempts to displace biological sex, becomes an obstacle, since the mere notion of identity imposes limitations. Concepts such as "transition" now prevail: there is no stable identity, but a free game of transitions, aided or not by surgery and hormone treatments. Paper supports everything, but reality is notoriously stubborn (the viruses and bacteria responsible for the almost epidemic spread of sexually transmitted infections, which go their own way regardless of political correctness, remain undeterred).

It is understandable, for example, that the English government is dismayed by the numerous cases of physical and sexual abuse in the famous British boarding schools. But it is less understandable that, simultaneously, the same government and parliament should push through a law on family, childhood and Education which, bypassing the will of parents, establishes the sexual Education from the age of five, with a approach that inevitably points to the sexualization of childhood. Another example: the Swiss government is going to distribute 1.5 million small condoms for use by twelve-year-olds.

The Swedish minister of Education declared in the 1960s: "You have to teach people how to use their sex as well as how to handle cutlery. When you know how to sit at the table, you don't think about it anymore. The same thing should happen with sex, not to think about it anymore. On the other hand, nothing is wrong, nothing is abnormal". He who sows the wind, of course, reaps the storm.