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/^t/Similarly false and harmful is the view that lessons devoted to sex would unnecessarily arise teenagers' interest in sex. It is only human nature that this interest arises and if it is not properly dealt with, it becomes vulgarised or is artificially suppressed. Both scenarios lead to serious personality crises such as provocative sexual behaviour on the one hand and illnesses like anorexia on the other. Most of anorexics acquired their illness due to difficulties with accepting the puberty changes in their bodies or disappointment with their first sexual encounters. these facts refute the theory according to which interest in sex can be diverted into sports or education. It is hard to understand then, why in Poland, where recent studies revealed that 30 percent of secondary school pupils can be diagnosed anorexic, the parliament sticks to the false theory and denies sex education to thousands of frustrated teenagers. Such education, approaching sex as a natural human function, would ease tensions and consequently prevent mental diseases and abnormal behaviours.