Right, we all know that the adults whose intentions can be trusted around children are the ones most committed to keeping them ignorant
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Replying to @arthur_affect @InaAlexandraDo1
As someone who survived a childhood of being "protected" by a conservative religious community, I reiterate, eat shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @InaAlexandraDo1
The best part is they're combining this statement that sex ed in and of itself is child abuse with a statement that "hugging and kissing" in and of itself CAN'T be abuse (and if you argue it is then you're the creep) My fucking God
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Replying to @arthur_affect @InaAlexandraDo1
That's exactly the environment abusers love "They don't know about any of those dirty things, to them everything is innocent!" The fetishization of "innocence" is such a huge, HUGE red flag
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Replying to @arthur_affect @InaAlexandraDo1
Can't believe we're going back to, "Don't tell kids about sex or they'll just go have sex," line that has never worked anywhere, any time before. Gotta ask who benefits from this shaming, "keep them innocent/ignorant" approach. That it's being pushed by "feminists?" Jesus wept.
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This is from the same people that insist that teaching kids that LGBT+ people exist and that's fine is promoting LGBT+ sexuality. You can talk to children about autonomy, consent and different types of relationships WITHOUT discussing specific sex acts. I have with mine.
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Replying to @BlueEterlin @RodentWild and
Additionally, if you can't conceive of having these conversation without making them about sex acts that is 100% a YOU problem, and something you should do some soul searching on and maybe get therapy for. (Last part isn't a dig. Lots of people really should be in therapy.)
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Yes! "Back when," I wondered if adult's reluctance to talk with kids about sex and relationships came more from their lack of knowledge and confidence than morality. I'd say it's the same now, but I'm still suspicious of the agenda behind this new wave of "sex ed is bad" folk.
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Admittedly, it's awkward as hell (especially if you've never considered how you'd go about it) to look at your small child and think "we should talk". But once you start and set parameters to build on it gets easier going forward.
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True! There are tonnes more good resources now for parents, teachers, youth workers, etc. than there were in say the 70's when it began to be recognised how important this was. Still struggling with this moralising backlash - alliance of "feminists" and fundy Christians?
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It's not a new thing The Handmaid's Tale talks about how Offred's mother had worked with the people who became Gilead back in the day, on a campaign to ban porn This was something that actually happened in the 80s
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