…For revolutionaries, the failure to sexualize childhood explains why the sexual revolution has not advanced further. Therefore, many are adopting a new brand of comprehensive sex education that begins earlier and encourages actual sexual activity. Revolutionaries peddle early sex education under the relatively moderate banners of halting pregnancy, preventing abuse, and stopping sexually transmitted diseases. Their ultimate goal is for public institutions to normalize treating children as sexual beings. Early sex education, they hope, will affect the habits and affections of children and shape their actions and attitudes.
Our tech giants are encouraging childhood sexuality. Netflix’s recent Cuties may do for childhood sexuality what Will and Grace did for same-sex marriage. Who can forget “Desmond is Amazing”—the story of an eleven-year-old drag performer? Advertisers long ago abandoned the idea that pre-teens are sexually innocent.
And age of consent laws are changing. California is the leader. While it remains a crime, for instance, for an eighteen-year-old to have sex with a twelve-year-old, judges can now call such sex voluntary but not consensual and lower the penalty for the perpetrator (as long as the age gap is ten years or less). Thus, legal support for maintaining the sexual innocence of children is eroding. Soon enough, age of consent laws will fall into desuetude, much like earlier forms of sexual regulation.
The 2020 Democratic platform supports “medically accurate, LGBTQ+ inclusive, age-appropriate sex education.” In Boise, the mayor’s task force on building a more equitable city aims to “establish sex education at pre-k level–12th” grade. This is happening throughout the country. Biden’s campaign website promises to pursue universal pre-K education for all American three- and four-year-olds. Will that include sex education? More than half the states mandate sex education in Kindergarten. State boards of education are also blessing such approaches.
The new comprehensive sex ed emphasizes tolerance for sexual fluidity and alternative lifestyles. It instructs young kids in “sexual pleasure, their nascent sexual bodies, and sexual intimacy,” as one writer puts it. Kids can learn about consent by practicing sexual intimacy in grade school, as they have done in Germany. As schools adopt early sexual education, sexual intimacy will be taught earlier and exploration of the body will go from discouraged, to optional, to encouraged. If children are by nature sexual beings, expect their sexual nature to be revealed ever earlier: If children are innately sexual, revolutionaries can never say “that is too early….”
The above comes from a Sept. 24 story in First Things.
San Andreas fault sure to take CA into the sea.
the millstones are at the ready
More reason to detest to the Left coast more than I already do.
I’ve fled the People’s Republic of California for Arizona where ultimately, it may be the same as California but one hopes for the best. I loved the weather in California, but it was the only thing it had going for it. I’ve already gotten a tax bill for my new home and it’s half of what I paid in CA for the same size house. And by the way, the heat is not as daunting as it is said to be.
Depends where you live in AZ. 115 degree heat in the south? No thanks. Flagstaff might be tolerable.
The title “California the Leader in Child Sex” conjures images of an entire state having orgies with young children allowed, forced or trafficked into compliance. The article refers to “writers’ but does not give names nore references to evidentiary publications that a critical thinker can then investigate if the allegations are true. Any critical thinker should not take any singular event and presume it proves an overall allegation. I am not, for the record, defending child sex (defined as having any sexual contact with a minor by another minor or adult), and a strong advocate against sexual trafficking. However, for far too many, the concept of “innocence via ignorance” is the axiom for sex education – the less, the better, leave it to parents who, by and large, cannot even deal with their own sexuality let alone their growing teen or young adult.
Dear Michael Joseph Dremel:
every parent of a child is an educator, fyi
The Pedophile’s Republic of California — Let the sex abuse scandals roll. I would not be surprised if some Priests leave the Priesthood to become public school teachers. The students at public schools have become much easier pickings.
The “parents” of these girls and their instructors are teaching them to seduce men while underaged. It will not end well at all. I really wonder if any of these underaged “actresses” were kidnapped (aka sex trafficked.)
A woman just tried to kidnap one of the grandchildren of the ex football player Joe Namath right out of a house when he was there. That is if the report is accurate and truthful. One never knows now days who is being truthful or just involved in a publicity stunt.
Nevertheless, there have been real abductions of children all over California for years from stores and libraries.
Joe Montana. Like Namath, do ya? :)
You are right, it was Joe Montana’s grandchild and not Joe Namath’s as I wrote.