(October 2, 2015 at 6:38 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: If we don't teach them to understand their bodies, they will teach each other to misunderstand them.
Yeauxleaux made a point—age appropriate. Curiosity about our bodies starts when we first learn that we have bodies. Shame about telling children the proper names for things (I've seen web forum where words like penis, vagina and even breast are replaced with *******) is part and parcel of the Christian agenda to make us feel guilty about our very existence. This shame should be done away with along with all the other superstitions they've bamboozled us with.
"Age appropriate"
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No kidding, I was inserting things by 4th grade. I didn't do it very often till much later, but I did do it.
I'm assuming telling a class not to would result in some experimentation, but as I know for a fact, some experimentation was going on.
I did something else in junior high that resulted in a trip to the doctor, (not the ER however). I think in that instance, a caution before I did it would have stopped me, or made me sufficiently careful as to avoid a problem. I suspect (but do not know for sure) that another boy in my class did the same thing with similar results.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
