
As I read
this story about a high school "Day of Purity", it occurs to me how absolutely messed up our (official, as well as
de facto) sex education is. Click "read more" to see my list of gripes or observations.
- By equating abstinence with purity, the right-wing pleasure-haters are teaching that sex is dirty, sex is bad, and sex is immoral.
- The "pornographers" who advocate the "other side" of this equate the mechanics of sex with the whole sexual experience. This is just as bad. I mean, if it were all about the mechanical aspects, folks would just masturbate, right? Well, perhaps the occasional oral sex....
- If sex is only for procreation (not pleasure) as the "purity" dorks suggest, why isn't a breast only for its utilitarian purpose? That is, why isn't it merely a baby-feeding device? Why is it sexual for Janet to bare her boob?
- I think kids have sex way too early. Too early=before their emotional development is up to the task. But I don't think it makes sense to scare kids away from sex because you want them to hold off until they're more mature.
I think there was a lot more I wanted to rant about on this subject, but I've got work to do.