moranion:

someoneintheshadow456:

moranion:

people on tumblr who gasp and clutch their imaginary pearls at the thought of “omg DETAILED sex ed being taught at young children is grooming” kinda remind me of that time when this raging homophobe kept on saying he was worried about the kids living with gay couples because how was this going to be explained to them, good gracious, they won’t understand how did daddy and daddy make them if other kids will have daddies and mommies, dear me, these degenerates will be explaining SEX ACTS to THEIR KIDS

so we badgered him until it came out that he genuinely thought ‘progressive sex ed’ meant purposefully showing explicit pornography to like, bloody toddlers

i mean. what the actual FUCK do these people think IS ‘detailed sex ed’??? very young kids – certainly below the age of 5 – are going to ask questions about their bodies, about other people’s bodies, some are going to discover masturbation already and it’s very possible that they’re going to overhear and/or accidentally walk in on their parents having sex – which, in case you believe idiotic movies, won’t “SCAR THEM FOR LIFE OMGGG”. So, parents and/or teachers are going to have to explain these things to them, and if honestly think these things are impossible to explain without veering into actual, for-real child abuse territory, then … honestly, I don’t know what to say to you, other than to a) please sit down for an hour and think about how indescribably stupid you sound, b) walk into a bloody bookstore and see what children’s books on sex are like (yes, they exist! and no, they’re not harmful! they’re the OPPOSITE OF HARMFUL!), and c) please consider how actually harmful it is to lie to kids and how you’re basically advocating setting them up to be vulnerable to all sorts of sexual trauma and abuse, bc they won’t fucking know what’s okay and what isn’t. 

Please consider how actually harmful it is to lie to kids and how you’re basically advocating setting them up to be vulnerable to all sorts of sexual trauma and abuse, bc they won’t fucking know what’s okay and what isn’t.

Remember: Every time someone advocates against teaching children sex ed, a pedo smiles at them in approval. 

It’s not even pedophiles only that people should be afraid of. I have heard so many stories of girls being frightened to death by their first periods bc they didn’t know what was going on, I wanna vomit. Teenage pregnancies, unnecessarily painful first times – hell, even grownass adults dragging behind them a crippling shame around all things sexual, being unable to ask for what they want in bed, not being able to orgasm, honestly believing that penetrative sex is just naturally painful, having deeply seated issues about the colour/shape/size of their genitals, etc etc etc, the list goes on into infinity. And no, that doesn’t mean that 5 year olds should know or need to know about condoms or periods or detailed ways to reach orgasm, it just means that making a young kid think sex and bodies and pleasure are smth shameful and dangerous, smth to be hidden and not talked about and only explored in the darkness and silence, is going to have lasting negative effect on them during the process of growing up, reaching puberty, and becoming adults. They won’t need to have the misfortune of falling into the claws of a child predator to be fucked up about sex. 

but, of course, in order to be aware of the adverse effects of sex-negative sex-ed in the adulthood, you have to talk about sex to other people, even people older than you, and that’s impossible if you believe, like half of tumblr seems to believe, that any kind of frank discussion about sex between people who aren’t of the exact same age is already abuse.