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%SEX EDUCATION 810509
Parents teach their children many of the skills
necessary for responsible living: how to clothe
themselves, how to clean themselves and their living
spaces, how to earn and spend money, how to talk, read and
do arithmetic, etc. The child experiences social approval
for participation in and making progress in these learning
experiences.
Most parents do not understand and are embarrassed by
their own sexuality. They feel threatened by the fact
that traditional ways of understanding, predicting, and
control are impotent when it comes to sexual
relationships. The scientists, religious leaders,
legalists, and other academic scholars seem not to have
succeeded in offering non-embarrassing ways of
participating in sexual relationships within a generally
supportive context. That which is powerful and beyond our
understanding, prediction, and control---tends to threaten
us, and we fear it. Parents who have not learned how to
participate meaningfully in sexual relationships which are
humane, mutual, and socially affirmed---thus regard
sexuality with fear; and fear that their children will
become the victims of sexuality. To protect their
children from sexuality such parents try to throw a cloak
of secrecy over sexuality---as if secrecy were enough.
Many parents recognize that secrecy is not enough to
repress children's making sexual discoveries on their own.
For this reason, taboos, collusions, and their threats of
punishment are instituted. The most fearful and desperate
parents promote sexual ignorance and laws which will make
it risky for young people to experiment sexually without
the females getting pregnant. While deliberately
withholding information about contraception and making
abortions illegal, they intend to punish young people who
dare to learn experimentally what their parents did not
dare to teach them about sexual relationships. The
unwanted babies are intended to be the means of punishing
the young women who will be required to take care of them
for many years. This use of babies to punish sexually
venturesome women is often promoted by people who claim to
be promoting the "right to life". In reality they want to
use babies to punish young people who seek to learn about
sexuality---when their society fails to provide and/or
undermines efforts at providing humane education about
humane sexuality.
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