- sex ed to start from age 5 - not to say show them a porn movie, but start introducing notions
- doesn't make kids have more sex
- makes them more likely to use condoms when they do
- by taking opportunities to address sexuality out of the public sphere it puts the onus on parents to guide their children's sex decision making
- often children aren't even thinking sex when we think they are thinking sex - Sexpo billboard - often our reactions put things in their minds
- SOLUTION FROM LISTENER: teach kids how to be parents before you teach them about sex
- the consequences of sex is not pregnancy it is pleasure, fear tactics don't work
- don't just talk to children about sex, talk about relationships, love, age-appropriate sex (underage sex could land you in jail), guidance about how loving should happen, HIV education
- no guilt tripping, no coercion
- if they do something 'wrong' sexually, work through it with them so that they know how to do it better, no punishment
- (! recognise that a mistake your kids make is a mistake you, the parent or adult, made)
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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