Teaching Sex

[snousle]

You may have read the flap about dictionaries being pulled from schools for containing a definition of "oral sex".

Seriously, if you had a kid of your own, what would you want his playground experience of "sex ed" to be? Would you want him/her to be ignorant, clueless and gullible? Or would you want your kid to be totally unflappable, absolutely unsurprised, and be able to speak with confidence and authority about sex, wowing his peers with his big forbidden Latin vocabulary and basically pwning the whole conversation? Aside from the personal value of knowing this stuff, it would give any child a huge social advantage in school.

I cannot understand why parents would want to send children into the world so totally unprepared for the most consequential choices they will ever make. It just Makes No Sense. The rugrats should be told exactly what sex is, in all its forms, as soon as they are able to understand it. If not earlier. Which I reckon is about two years old.

Could you even show a toddler an anatomy textbook and not be sent to jail for it? It's not entirely clear what the answer is these days.

[Actually, withholding information about sex makes perfect sense when you realize that pregnancy is a key mechanism of social control. Everything in the xtian fundamentalist take on sex is directed towards encouraging "accidental" pregnancy followed by a shotgun wedding. So of course, abortion must be forbidden. If there is one thing I could tell kids about sex, it's that their parents' apparent "cluelessness" about their sexual activity is very often a deliberate effort to subvert their independence and freedom. This is why so many arch-conservative cultures, like the Puritans, basically let teenagers run wild. It's the biggest bait and switch in the world.]

Comments

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

It's pretty obvious by their actions that they want kinds to get knocked up. It forces them into changing their life and forces them to let go of their own desires and be part of the system.
This isn't the only reason they encourage ignorance and education. Well educated people rarely vote for them types so it'll create another generation of voters/supporters/funders for them

[chefxh.livejournal.com]

Rumspringe.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

I cannot understand why parents would want to send children into the world so totally unprepared for the most consequential choices they will ever make.

For the same reason Islamic fundys don't want schools. As long as everybody's dumb and taught to follow their stinkin' little bible, the fundys can control an entire country.

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

Sex is dirty and we don't talk about dirty things with our children. it just sullies the whole parent/child dynamic.

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

Your'e right that it isn't so much about sex, it's about control. The fact that they are passing on the discomfort and messed-up myths about sex of their parents to their children is another tragic facet of this mindset.

[come-to-think.livejournal.com]

"My mommy would never do that!" %^)

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My mother told me that when one of her sisters got married, her mother took her aside & told her, "Now you be very careful"; that was my aunt's entire sex education.

[urbear]

Classic conservative/fundie thinking... if it's not talked about, it doesn't exist, regardless of what those of us in the reality-based community think.