Our society goes to great lengths to give children, and young people, a negative impression of sex and sexuality. Do you think this has any negative effects, generally, on a child's overall mental health - or adult psychology?
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I think a lot of things go to "damaging" children's wellbeing. I don't necessarily believe stalling their sexual development damages them so much that it shelters them from reality. Kids will find out one way or the other about sex. They're naturally curious as babies. They touch themselves, touch adults, ask "what's that" when mommy is standing there naked and her boobs on display. They know there are differences. Hiding those things from a child only makes them want to know more sooner. Kids today are actually exposed to sex too much. Girls model themselves after models who are less than a size 0 on the runway. They watch Miley Sirus dancing around in a leotard on stage like a slut _____ (or insert better word if you'd like). You have to have boundaries with kids. You have to be able to teach them right and wrong while teaching them about sex. They have to know that models aren't reality and that sex isn't always what it's made out to be. Girls getting pregnant at 12, 13, 14? "Teen Mom", "Pregnant at 16"? Do these shows help, hinder or hurt our kids sexuality? I believe parents should allow their kids to develop and learn, but slowly. They shouldn't hit puberty and be let free into the world to start having sex. They should still be monitored closely and talked to daily and told things they need to know rather than kids having to learn on their own at school.
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I would say there are two categories here. First the type of sexual behaviour that's all models, Miley Cyrus tramping around stage (like somebody said before me), porno, padded bras for little girls and all that. But then there's the other one - that's just kids touching themselves, couples having sex, teens having urges, kids asking questions and learning the facts of life. I'd say that it's perfectly fine for parents to give a negative impression to the first kind of sex but if they try to keep their kids from knowing the other kind that's going a bit far because there's nothing wrong with sex if you're doing it for the right reasons.
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