Just Politics

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There was plenty of opposition to the introduction of sex education into Australian schools, and much of it was from church going folk.

Seems for many adults even a considered look at the idea of helping a child to be more balanced scares them, and that is sad, for the children mostly, but also for the adult.

The kids very quickly grew more comfortable with it. In the first lesson penis was mentioned there were red faces, laughs and shocked looks, but when it was put to them that genitals were just another part of the body as arm, leg or head was they quickly accepted they should be able to talk about the stuff in the 'don't mention' places too.

Yep, i also remember when my Dad first got me with Playboy, he made comments which had me feeling guilty too. So much so that i insisted i had the mag for the good articles in it. LOL, that was true too as some were good ones about all sorts of other stuff. Dad just scoffed at that as he always did when i said anything he disagreed with. That was much of the time.

The first bare breast i saw was in a film in primary school in Burnaby (outside of Vancouver). It was called African Bread, something like that, was about Africa anyway and there were even complaints about that where sex wasn't at all part of the deal and there was no reason for seeing anything dirty in it.

"...so I tried it for myself and realized it wasn't that bad as long as I didn't cross the line"

That's what i had to do with some hard drugs when heroin was said to be absolutely the worst, yet i was told, and read at the same time, that nicotine was more addictive than it. Course, i was much older then but it would have been about the time you were born. Actually in mid '70s it was. I did it as an experiment so for all the right reasons. And stopped with no problem after about 6 months when i felt i'd learned all i wanted to.

Agree totally with your sentiment on the kids and social media. I'm thinking though we hear so much more of the sad stories and that most ordinary kids aren't into that as much as some of the more privileged ones with, umm, a public parent, or two.