LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
It teaches children they have a right to sex, and that their bodies and others' bodies are toys made for recreation.
"Treating your body like an amusement park"?
It teaches children they have a right to sex, and that their bodies and others' bodies are toys made for recreation.
"Treating your body like an amusement park"?
I should've explained what kind of talk I had growing up.
My mom came of age in the 1950s and had me at a late age. Therefore she is very conservative when it comes to sex. When she taught me about puberty and where babies come from, she wasn't afraid about that. What she was afraid of was me finding out from other people. In junior high, when sex-ed came around, she pulled me from the class. I was the laughingstock of my class when it was that time of week to discuss sex ed, because I had to go hang out in the library while my classmates got to hear about the birds and the bees (and no, the library did not have books on sex-ed either). At the time, my mom said she didn't want me to learn about sex-ed with boys in the class. But now I realize she was afraid I would learn something she didn't want me to learn. What, I don't know.
My mom thought I was too young to learn about sex itself, but the problem was, other kids knew things I didn't know. For example, in sixth grade, I wasn't quite sure what a virgin was. To make it short, I had a lot of mortifying moments that year.
Luckily, I had two older sisters who taught me about sex. It was they who subscribed me to Seventeen so I could learn more. At the time, my mom almost cancelled the subscription because she thought I was too young for the magazine. But that is where I learned what masturbation was and what oral sex was, and so on. So learning from a magazine is not pathetic.
The book has circulated 48 times over the past 13 years, Speer said.
Talking with reporters outside the courthouse Wednesday, Karkos said she had no intention of giving up the book she claims violates the city's obscenity ordinance. She said the library needs to change its book selection policies to conform with the city's ordinances. She called her actions "civil disobedience."
How many people here have parents who literally sat and taught them/discussed everything about sex, well everything within reason-whatever you consider that to be. Like you would get in a graphic sex ed class. I don't know what sex ed classes are like in 2008.
you should have gone to snow's house.
"Children are not meant to be sexually active," she said.
I wasn't saying it was pathetic for you to learn from a magazine in the absence of your mother having done her job--children will read or ask about sex from whatever sources seem useful if their parents won't discuss it with them, and there's no point in criticizing them for that. But for a parent to shove a magazine subscription at a preteen/teen girl as a substitute for frank discussions from her parent(s) about sexuality does her a serious disservice, and that I do find pathetic. My parents 'came of age' in the 1940s and had fairly traditional views on marriage and families, but that didn't keep them from openly and comfortably discussing first reproduction, then later sexuality and sexual health with us. That's not to say there weren't a few areas in which they 'showed their age,' things I'm now doing differently with my own kids--for example, they never discussed the concept of sexual orientation with us, so I more or less got the impression that homosexuality was some sort of abnormal compulsive behavior, and I continued to assume that until I went to college. And there were certainly a few things I could've asked them about but didn't want to, as I'm sure will be the case with my own kids as well--teenagers do crave their privacy and are sensitive about the physical changes they're going through. You're lucky to have had older siblings of the same sex around; I think that's often very helpful for a great many kids, even when the parents are doing a pretty good job themselves.I should've explained what kind of talk I had growing up.
My mom came of age in the 1950s and had me at a late age. Therefore she is very conservative when it comes to sex. When she taught me about puberty and where babies come from, she wasn't afraid about that. What she was afraid of was me finding out from other people. In junior high, when sex-ed came around, she pulled me from the class. I was the laughingstock of my class when it was that time of week to discuss sex ed, because I had to go hang out in the library while my classmates got to hear about the birds and the bees (and no, the library did not have books on sex-ed either). At the time, my mom said she didn't want me to learn about sex-ed with boys in the class. But now I realize she was afraid I would learn something she didn't want me to learn. What, I don't know.
My mom thought I was too young to learn about sex itself, but the problem was, other kids knew things I didn't know. For example, in sixth grade, I wasn't quite sure what a virgin was. To make it short, I had a lot of mortifying moments that year.
Luckily, I had two older sisters who taught me about sex. It was they who subscribed me to Seventeen so I could learn more. At the time, my mom almost cancelled the subscription because she thought I was too young for the magazine. But that is where I learned what masturbation was and what oral sex was, and so on. So learning from a magazine is not pathetic.
Your mum sounds great. Yay for your mum!
meh, i don't mind this actually. the world is supersexualised, and while this is quite possibly the lamest and worst choice to make a stand against, at least someone else is tired of it.
meh, i don't mind this actually. the world is supersexualised, and while this is quite possibly the lamest and worst choice to make a stand against, at least someone else is tired of it.
I think that the impacts of this 'supersexualisation' is plain enough, fewer sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancies and abortions.
I think a book meant to educate young people about sex is a very different thing than stuff like Girls Gone Wild. I don't think this women is just tired of our oversexualized culture - she thinks kids should live in ignorance when it comes to their own sexuality. Being raised in an atmosphere like that can really mess kids up.
There is also that inverse correlation (albeit one heavily complicated by socioeconomic factors) between the growing availability of internet pornography and incidents of rape.
Yeah, how does education = supersexualized?
I don't get that line of thinking...
I hope she's prepared for her daughter to get knocked up at 15 because she doesn't know where babies come from. Way to parent!
Nah, it's all good. One of her friends will tell her all she has to do is jump up and down after sex and she won't get pregnant Friends are a wealth of knowledge.