It's actually important to teach about these things so they have the knowledge to do it safely when the time comes. No point teaching them about it after the fact. Atleast this way we're teaching them how to do it all safely before any of them pick up harmful practices from porn
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Replying to @halford_rosie @arthur_affect and
WTF?! I don't want my 13-yearold daughter to have anal sex *safely*, I don't want her to do it at all. She is 13. It's *illegal* for this age group. By your measure, why not teach all 13-year-olds how to inject heroin safely, just in case they fancy doing it one day.
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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @halford_rosie and
I remember when my Catholic dad lost his shit about the idea of schools handing out condoms Very similar energy to what you're displaying right now "It's like saying if kids will commit suicide with knives then we might as well give them a gun to do it reliably and painlessly"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
The idea that if I were "inappropriately and prematurely sexualized" this would constitute something similar to death -- going to hell, I suppose, or just being irrevocably corrupted and damaged Really great stuff to grow up with, I highly recommend it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @halford_rosie and
I am not your Catholic dad. Your issues with him don't relate to what I am saying. As an adult man, you appear to have absolutely no idea of the huge pressures teenage girls are under to be sexualised.
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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @halford_rosie and
And you think that eliminating any discussion of actual sex from sex ed is a way to relieve this pressure? Lol I grew up in a *fortress* of the kind of "safeguarding" you advocate -- nothing but dire warnings about pregnancy and STIs -- and it didn't work out that way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
You know what happens when you can't talk about sex frankly at all? You can't talk about consent either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
Speaking from your experience, would you say that your upbringing contained any consent talk at all? Even the non-sexual kind? Or were you expected to do as you were told and hug the relative you didn't want to hug? I know a lot of people who were forced to do the latter :(
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Replying to @Gerkuman @CarolT52973604 and
I had very little sense of my right to say yes or no to anything growing up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and
So you should welcome SRE that covers consent but does *not* put children under additional pressure to agree to things they don't want.
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Describing sexual acts frankly is not "pressuring" people to do them
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