Finally Out by Loren A. Olson MD

Author:Loren A. Olson, MD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oak Lane Press
Published: 2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Although same-sex sexual exploration is often disregarded as “boys will be boys,” sexual education that would better equip a young boy to deal with his expanding sexuality encounters tremendous resistance, as if the innocence of boyhood would be unleashed, resulting in out of control, sexually driven automatons. In the 1950s, girls were shown a movie about menstruation, but boys got nothing. In Nebraska, farm boys learned about sex in the context of breeding farm animals, and city boys learned about sex from farm boys. Many of those who oppose sex education feel the need to protect the innocence of their children. Opponents believe that sex education undermines the values taught by parents and see sex education as a subversive attempt to remove parental authority. But ignorance and preaching abstinence is no protection of innocence.

Sex education should be so much more than a ten-minute discussion of good touch and bad touch, ideas that are to be shed magically like wedding clothes upon entering the honeymoon bed. Sex education could teach young boys that they have a choice, and that a failure to express their choice is not the same as giving consent. It could teach them about how to deal with an imbalance of power with someone in a position of authority. It could teach them about safe sex. Whenever children do not receive a healthy education about sex, they will seek to educate themselves. That sleeping giant is going to wake up.

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