Aren’t You too Young To Be Having Orgasms?
I just read this article and I’m really in two minds about it.
I can see their point 100% about the necessity to modernise sex education and get kids to buy in to the whole idea of sex being special and not something you give away to anyone who buys you a bag of chips. What worries me is that there is a tendency amongst kids to take any advice and twist it to their own way of thinking.
Yes, encouraging masturbation at a sensible, pleasurable and above all satisfying level would take away some of the urges that cause kids to have their first sexual encounters at younger and younger ages. But is that what would happen?
The excitement of sex, and the attractions of the opposite sex (or of course same sex if that’s your thing) are potent and sometimes almost irresistible.
Let’s hope they know what they are doing on this one.
It is a minefield of opinion.
The article appears to suggest ‘treat them as adults,’ which is all very well, however the teenage years are never what one hopes.
For each and any, one can only know their boundaries through knowing whom they are, which in turn leads to sexual identity and security with a better sense.
On a more personal note as a teenager I never held any anxieties towards sex but rather I encountered a lot of girls/boys who did, naturally times change and the subject of sex, whilst it does appear to be more frequent in our lives, through various mediums, tends to lean toward salacious mediocrity, there are countless examples.
It is a difficult subject to address when so many of us still hold with the view that to ponder on anything sexual, is to being found to having a dirty mind, how the hell is it dirty? and what the fuck does that mean?
I tend to agree with you, for myself it is a question for every parent.
There’s your minefield.