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skry's avatar

Deceit is immoral, not the human body. Textile washing (read: textile version of white washing) is a rampant problem. We are humans, not outfits, not uniforms.

Society might become less hyper sexualized were we to stop hiding it away and deceiving ourselves of our inherent biology. Using blanket vagueries as "protect" children from sex implies that sex is inherently malign, harmful, etc negatives. Children wouldn't exist without the sex that conceived them, so by extension of alluding sex as negative, we condemn children to have an inherency of being just as malign.

The toxicity of the concept of inheriting original sin, anyone?

Without sex, we do not have bodies to be positive of.

The harm that is being enacted onto our youths by secreting away sex and the human body is immense, resulting in body negativity and, due to sexual suppression, hyper sexualization.

Make no mistake, I'm not condoning pedos. I'm a survivor from childhood sa, so.

I'm saying if young adults' emerging sexuality is unaccepted by society, stigmatized, where if they engage in sexual activity it is in secret or in rebellion, this endangers them, to disease, to pedos, to dangerous sexual experimentation (like having an object stuck in an oriface, or otherwise damage genitalia) especially when combined with our nationally defunct sex education. We can scare them all we want, make sex into a Boogeyman, but in the end it's in their very cells, and running from it is futile and counterproductive to safety. Teaching safe methods of managing ones own sexual experience is paramount, and ensuring that everyone can feel comfortable to talk about it is necessary for healthy society.

...But instead we live in a scary world of textile authoritarianism, sexual stigmata, and body negativity....

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Timmy's avatar

I would agree fully. In fact, I believe that hiding innocent behavior makes children much more vulnerable to the very real theat of abuse. We have imposed a culture of body shame and secrecy, and children begin to feel if they might be blamed, for being hurt. We aren't allowed to be comfortable with ourselves.

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