Patrice Lewis
A couple weeks ago, a Huffington Post blogger by the name of Soraya Chemaly put up a provocative post "How Do You Feel About Sex and Teenage Sleepovers?” in which she broached the topic of not just discussing sex with your teenage children, but actually teachingthem how to have sex, and then giving them the freedom to experiment. She divvied parents into two camps: the “responsible sex is good” camp and the “scare them silly” camp. (The latter are also lumped with the “socially conservative mythology” crowd.)
This blogger professes great admiration for how teenage sex is handled in the Netherlands, where “parents …talk openly with their children about the meaning and mechanics of sex and often allow their teenage children to engage in sex with their partners in their homes.”
Chemaly’s denial about the ramifications of teenage sex ignores one very critical, very unspoken fact: Sex is different than other bodily functions such as eating, showering, or lavatorial needs. Sex has enormous emotional meaning. That’s the elephant in the room too many progressives refuse to see.....To Read More.....
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