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Add to that: - no sex ed It really feels like there are a lot of parents who think they can keep their kids safe by keeping them dumb about how their bodies w
by failbuffer 3y ago
Add to that:
- no sex ed
It really feels like there are a lot of parents who think they can keep their kids safe by keeping them dumb about how their bodies work.
- ben_w 3y agoI guess the converse is having to educate teens about the internet the same way I, at school, was educated about sex[0] and drugs[1]. [0] entirely heteronormative, Section 28 applied; also mostly Catholic, but rather more secular than you might expect from that description. First I even saw the word chlamydia was after I finished the GCSEs and went to a secular place for my A-levels. [1] and not rock and roll. The drugs were booze (drink responsibly), cigarettes (expensive cancer sticks), and all other drugs collectively under the banner "will destroy your life and/or kill you" (which turned out to be a whole mass of outright lies, for example "dealers trying to get primary school kids addicted to LSD" and basically everything they told us about the death of Leah Betts).