cyberfiltering: just say no... Not no, yes! -Reply

[Dan Lester]

>>> Ronnie Morgan <rmorgan at Harding.edu> 04/28/97
08:17pm >>>
Information about sexuality should be obtained from your
parents, not from someone on the internet, who is more than
likely wrong.
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In a perfect world, I'd agree.  In that same world kids would
know how to read, apply for a job, do homework, do math at
least to first part of algebra, etc, etc.  But this world is far
from perfect, unfortunately.  In fact, it seems to me that the
parents who least want kids to know about sex are the same
ones who do NOT talk to their kids about it....at all.  These
parents also think kids shouldn't know about drugs in first
grade, shouldn't know about molesters in first grade,
shouldn't begin learning about sex in grade school, etc.  Even
in small towns in rural and conservative Idaho girls of 12, 13,
14 are frequently pregnant.  They generally knew little about
sex, and some didn't even know what it takes to get
pregnant.  Yes, there are good conservative parents and good
liberal parents....and a majority of pretty crappy ones in
between.   Why do you think schools have taken on ever
greater and earlier roles in sex education than the did in the
olden times of the 1950s, when school didn't teach me about
sex until I was in eighth grade...though my parents had
taught me when I was in about fourth.
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Then the law concerning sale to minors should be gotten rid
of, right?  Wrong!  They don't need it, and I don't see how
they deserve it either.  Kids are not mature enough to make a
good decision on a lot of things, and they surely don't need
this to make matters worse.  
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I'll not argue that kids need or should have porn....but as an
interesting and ironic point, consider this.  Over half the
sixteen year old kids in the USA are sexually active.  They
can see the real thing.  They can do the real thing.  They DO
do the real thing.  But they can't see a picture of someone
else doing it.  Irony?  yup.    NOTE: I'm NOT advocating sex
for sixteen year olds....I'm simply reporting the reality of the
world today.  

cyclops


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