saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life
and let's be honest. if something bad was happening, good sex ed would help them recognize that. trying to shelter children from even knowing what sex is doesn't help or even work, it actually enables abuse. teach them about consent
Hot take: let's not discuss sexual stuff around CHILDREN.
Let's not sexualize children or even think of children & sexual stuff
Don't discuss sexual stuff with CHILDREN.
They cannot consent.
Children cannot consent and I dont know how many times we have to tell you this.
CHILDREN. CANNOT. CONSENT.
people like you are the reason so many kids can't speak up about being sexually abused. go back to the catholic church or whatever. we need proper sex education and this is dire
oh they're literally catholic. that explains a lot.
Heck this isnāt even just a matter of sexual abuse; studies have shown that the states with the best sexual education classes in public schools are the ones with the lowest teen pregnancy rates
When I was in high school, I took health my sophomore year because I had to and we had several lessons about the potential consequences of sex and what to do to prevent them; we were shown a demonstration of how to put a condom on using a banana and videos about how other forms of birth control work. Notice how according to this map from the CDC, Oregon has one of the lowest teen pregnancy rates in the country? Thereās a reason for that. Also, as a sociology major, Iāve studied what several scholars have to say about these topics and just about all of them agree that itās a good idea to teach kids things like the importance of consent and safety at a young age. No, you shouldnāt be showing minors graphic content like straight up porn but absolutely have these conversations about health when theyāre in middle and high school.


















