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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Replying to @CarolT52973604 @Gerkuman and
Describing sexual acts frankly is not "pressuring" people to do them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CarolT52973604 and
Christ I'm so sick of this charade You know that the whole reason she's harping on "anal sex" is she's attacking a curriculum that describes what queer couples do with each other in the same frank terms as cishet missionary sex
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gerkuman and
No, that's your perspective. Anal sex from a female perspective is different to a male perspective. The pressure on girls to consent to sexual practices is different to equal pressures on partners in a gay male relationship. You cannot speak for teenage girls.
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It's the perspective of someone who knows what Section 28 is and has seen the rhetoric on the Christian sites jumping on this story once Nicholson started it
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