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[bubosquared]

Note to this doofus: Childhood innocence is a myth! Jebus. No one's gonna be scarred for life because they knew what sex is before they're 15. Reading explicit stories at a young age does not necessarily traumatise a child. Look at me! I got sex ed at 3, read smut at 12 and de Sade at 14, and i'm perfectly fine.

Muttermumblenotmyjobtoprotectyourfreakingkidsgrumble

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[dragonfizz.livejournal.com]

It's not my job to parent America.

ggrrr

[misswhiplash63.livejournal.com]

I and everyuone i know knew what oral sex was long before 11 for gods sake! And not knowing about sex isn't innocence it's ignorance.

stupid people make me wanna scream...

[ex-frown243.livejournal.com]

*is horrified*

If I didn't know what oral sex was at age eleven, I would have been laughed out of my school. Blimey. I think it's safe to say that once a person is in the fifth grade, they should - and generally do - know all of the ins and outs of sex. What do these kids talk about at the lunch table? How titillating the meatloaf is?

Honestly.

[girlinthecorner.livejournal.com]

Er... what the hell? Kids are practically *supposed* to go around trying to find out whatever they can about sex. It's like a rule. I know I did... I used to snoop through my parent's books trying to find things. And I was about 9 or 10. Because all the other little kids were talking about blow jobs and such, and I was like "what are they talking about? I must know!" And I did. And I didn't die.

[okoge.livejournal.com]

No one's gonna be scarred for life because they knew what sex is before they're 15.

:)
that's my "me too" supportive face.

[jackthegirl.livejournal.com]

I think it's more damaging to not know about sex. I only knew the basic (meaning sex=babies), until about 8th grade (thank you, Loveline!). Now I'm a sex crazed pervert, so there you have it.

[gal-montag.livejournal.com]

*scratches head*

I was more scarred by the notion that sex is bad than I was by finding about sex itself.

So, in theory, wouldn't keeping kids from *positive* depictions and attitides about sex fuck them up more?

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

Uhm, being scared because you know what sex is ? Well, would mean that whole East Germany was a collection of scared freaks. We were told the whole stuff in the first grade...Whatever. And I'm so not scared. Maybe a freak, but not scared...:)

::shakes head in disgust::

[o-contrary.livejournal.com]

Hasn't anyone figured out yet that the more something is forbidden, the more determined the devious creatures known as kids are going to be to find out as much about it as possible?

Good grief. In my family, it became sort of a game between my sister and I to see how long it would take to get my mom addicted to the smut novels she was letting my sister read. Lessee. I was 9, my sis was 11. We're both fine now. The areas in which we aren't fine have nothing to do with sex ed or lack thereof.

They're going to learn about it one way or another, so you might as well just let them.