Great topic.
- In third-world and first-world countries with morally conservative, oppressive governments, everything remotely connected to sex or the reproductive system - romance, flirtation, changes during puberty, even breast cancer diagrams - are censored. This has led to dysfunctional social attitudes towards sex: for example, first-world Arab societies have trouble acknowledging female desire or sexuality. Personally, I think that politics and religion need to be taken out of sexual education. There is nothing wrong with educating children on their bodies or the criminal industries that they need to beware of. Ignorance is more dangerous.
- The widespread reach of the internet means that the issue is no longer about hiding or concealing sex from children. It is about creating authorised, responsible sources for sex education.
- Future generations cannot be prevented from accessing unauthorised and authorised sources.
- In third-world and first-world countries with morally conservative, oppressive governments, everything remotely connected to sex or the reproductive system - romance, flirtation, changes during puberty, even breast cancer diagrams - are censored. This has led to dysfunctional social attitudes towards sex: for example, first-world Arab societies have trouble acknowledging female desire or sexuality. Personally, I think that politics and religion need to be taken out of sexual education. There is nothing wrong with educating children on their bodies or the criminal industries that they need to beware of. Ignorance is more dangerous.
- The widespread reach of the internet means that the issue is no longer about hiding or concealing sex from children. It is about creating authorised, responsible sources for sex education.
- Future generations cannot be prevented from accessing unauthorised and authorised sources.