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One thing I've noticed over the years is we have en extremely prissy, schoolmarmish discipline. I guess it has something to do with the whole residual "missionary" aspect of going to other countries and teaching the natives to be civilized, though very few of us (I hope) think of it that way.
It's really hard to find a textbook that doesn't feature some preachy section on the evils of smoking, or similar puritanism. There's almost nothing reflecting the real attitudes of modern-day young adults on things like sex or alcohol and drugs. Indeed, there's generally no mention of these things, period. I realize a lot of this is "lowest common denominator" stuff to offend as few, and thus sell as many, as possible, and one can always have great fun teaching against the text, but wouldn't it be great to have materials that were at least somewhat more adult in their orientation?