(Reminder: withholding sex education from kids puts them in danger so don’t advocate keeping important information away from kids just because you hate asexuals )
Reminder: Educating kids on sex before they’re ready for that kind of education will confuse them, and educating them on asexuality sexualizes any other kids that don’t choose to identify with it, which is problematic as fuck.
Stop being a fucking creep and sexualizing kids, you piece of shit.
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Anecdotal but tell that to the girl who came through the shelter a decade ago. She was 17 at the time and was sexually abused by a relative since puberty.
How did this go on for so long? Her parents were Christian fundamentalists asshats who refused to teach her anything about sex, including info about periods. She had no idea what sex was and it was up to the officer on scene to explain it to her.
Anecdotes aren't great evidence but here is at least one girl who desperately needed sex ed.
Kids need to know about sex. There isn't any magic age for kids to learn, as they mature at different rates, but the school has to choose a time and dive right in to educate them about sex because they cannot count on the parents to teach them properly!
This only makes sense if kids are automatically asexual until they learn what sexual identities exist. Sort of a reverse Shrödinger - you know what the state is until you look at it.
Which is wrong. Most people are born with a particular orientation which doesn't change much if at all, and most people have at least a vague awareness of what it is at a very early age, sometimes as young as 5. Though granted, most children/teens don't actually think about it consciously until it comes up or becomes an issue.
"Stop being a fucking creep and sexualizing kids, you piece of shit."
If only someone said that to Josh Duggar. And other holy rollers
The Duggars a good one to bring up, they've admitting that in family diddleling or sexual interference is a 'big problem' in their buttoned down repressive sect.
Fetishes are bigger in the Bible belt than other states or the rest of the Western world. It's been that lack of any sex education and teaching that ALL SEX is bad that's attributed to this weirdness.
You're aware that babies masturbate, right? Girl babies "ride the pillow" and boy babies "play" with their thingy.
Proper sex ed, in school, say around 10 or 11 years of age, when most haven't entered into puberty yet, is when they are ready for it. Not teaching them anything, but letting them hear about it behind the bicycle shed instead, will DEFINITELY confuse them, and put them in harms way.
How would the info that there are people who are asexual, sexualize kids? Mirror, mirror, I'd say...
Did you choose to identify with your height, honey?
YOU stop being a creep, and let kids get proper education, you pondscum.
Germany calling. First sex ed in third grade, everyone found it hilarious, yet some things suddenly made sense. However, nobody went out to go and have sex straight away, it was more like "ew, you have to do THAT to have children?!" for most kids. We were then more or less explained how one develops an interest in it during puberty, some earlier, some later, and how it was important to be careful. Nobody left the classroom scarred, confused or in any way fucked up - to the contrary, as far as I know nobody from my primary school class got pregnant before they wanted.
Now, the school I went to in rural Texas as an exchange student in 11th grade, totally different issue... and believe me, kids there knew about sex as well. Only half of them were conditioned to believe it was a totally immoral and dirty thing and ran screaming when you talked about it. And probably felt bad for being horny or masturbating as well. And quite a few teen pregnancies occured as well.
@Liz_7
Her parents were Christian fundamentalists asshats who refused to teach her anything about sex, including info about periods.
I recently read something online about a girl who had a homeschooled Christian girl come to her school for some kind of sports thing, she was in the restroom panicking because she had just gotten her period and didn't know why she was bleeding from her vagina. She was a teenager and her parents had never, ever taught or even mentioned anything about periods to her, so she had no idea. What a terrible thing to do to a young girl. I mean, I understand if you are afraid your daughter will want to have sex after learning about it, but at least teach your daughters about their cycles so they don't freak out and think they're dying when the first one happens.
Come to think about it, I remember my mom talking about how her mother never taught my aunt (younger than my mom) about it either, so my aunt was freaking out when it happened to her, too, until my mom told her what it was all about. That was back in the 1940's, but in this day and age we should have progressed to the point where it's not taboo to prepare young girls for that. I understand that many girls are already insecure with their changing bodies and to have that happen without knowing what it is must be horrifying.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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