ABSTRACT
Sex education as we conceive of it in the broad sense of the term, should be oriented toward preparing new generations for the purpose of developing stable, enduring and happy partnerships; thus we educate our children in the principles of our socialist society. In the Cuba of the mid-1970s, there were those in the new generation of education activists who were calling for something very new and very radical—sex education. The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) Congress of 1974 was also the occasion of a demand for a national sex education project that had official backing. By placing the demand for sex education firmly in the context of women's issues—and in the capacity of the new generation for love, marriage, arid family life—the FMC pinpointed the most pervasive gap in revolutionary consciousness. Stela Cerutti frankly recognized in a 1986 interview that the sex education staffs itself was neither free of prejudices nor free of taboos.
