In light of yet another anti-human, anti-reality crackdown around sex by puritanical, social control groups:
We have got to make access to information about interpersonal and private intimacy a human right so that no individuals or groups can restrict another human being from being able to learn from those resources.
Information is freedom, information is life, all people have the right to learn about themselves, their bodies, and the reality of the world around them so that they are enabled to live as a fully informed adult with total access to bodily autonomy and a coherent grasp on the tangible facts of the reality in which they live.
Yes, this means allowing children to have access to age-appropriate educational information about sex and socializing that respects their intelligence and treats their questions with neutrality and honesty. Yes, this means especially including access about sexuality, gender, signs of abuse. It is our jobs as adults to be mature and lock in about topics that trigger our culturally ingrained knee-jerk disgust and discomfort about these hard and necessary topics.
This is about survival skills, and deactivating our reactionary behaviors so that we can communicate functionally.
I was a kid whose access to education about sexuality, my body, my gender, and socialization was restricted. I was a kid who was exclusively taught shame, humiliation, and disgust, and I struggled into my adulthood because of that. Lack of information left me vulnerable to abuse and sexually-off behaviors from my peers. Information gives kids the tools to identify cruel and abnormal behavior and gives them the basis of knowledge that they will need to be able to build upon.
It also enables children to grow up and escape hostile, knowledge-restricting households, and to know that the treatment they are experiencing is not normal and that they are having a rational reaction to irrational circumstances.
Information protects people from falling victim to social-control groups and enables individuals in escaping from authoritarian homes, religious offshoots, and organizations.
At the end of the day its less about being scandalized by sex for these groups... It is almost exclusively about Social Control, particularly control over women, children, and non-heterosexual, non-cisgender people.
If we are to be able to move forward with the emotional intelligence and capacity to understand that humans are extremely complex, diverse, and not easily categorized (as is most of nature, from which we are animals derived from), then access to knowledge must be an inalienable right.
Libraries already exist as havens of knowledge but are under increasing attack for this very reason. Libraries must be a place we enshrine as part of public welfare, they are non-negotiable places for community and are a non-judgmental, self-directed or advised center for information seeking. They must be easily accessible, dutifully defended, and community protected.
The way you destroy fascists is with the free-flow of knowledge rooted in reality, refined with the intent to educate at a variety of levels to enable all people, from child to elder, to inform and arm themselves with the invaluable knowledge of life.
