(October 2, 2015 at 7:36 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(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.
I do not wish to know the particulars of your story (and thank you very much for not telling us!), but you are certainly right that educating people on sexual activity is a good idea. Every sexual animal manages to have sex without an education, so we know that the urges will work without it. So the religious zealots are being moronic in supposing that not telling people about sex will prevent sex. But knowing about it can help one avoid problems, and that is a very useful thing. Both for the individual, and for society at large, as it may help prevent the spread of disease.
I can also say, with great confidence, that I am sure I did not engage in sexual activity due to education about it. Indeed, learning about diseases and such things made me more cautious than I would have been if I had been a totally ignorant fool.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
