Scholastic Sexual Imprisonment
by A view on why it is detrimental to the development of teens into adults to instill rules such as “Public Display of Affection” rules during Middle High School and High School.
About what would you feel safe speaking to your children at home if you knew that a neighbor, friend, or an acquaintance were going to be sitting with them constantly monitoring their speech and reprimanding them for actions and words deriving from your home? Given the fact that sexual education has made its way into the classroom and the fact that academic officials that work with adolescents consider any sexual reference to be a vulgarity that is punishable by suspension, even the most compassionate and truthful act within a home can become demonized and hated by institutions thus resulting in false understandings and fear among children regarding the most sanctified act of all humanity: intercourse.
A plague upon our nation that has been left to the tolerant and frustrated public for too long is the sexually explicit and lustful garbage available to anyone who continually pays for basic cable. Sex has been selling make up, condoms, TV shows, movies, ideas, ideals, and consumer goods of all sorts for so long it predates the television itself. What about reducing the truth and love of sex interests us so much as a populous? Why do we undermine the innocence and direction that our children bring to this world if we are so dissatisfied with our own lives’ direction and our own country’s past? Couldn’t it be a grander vision for all of us to leave children to their own, pre-natal and inherited knowledge of reproduction without the prejudice that leads to talks about what sex is and what sex isn’t, or what is good in a girlfriend/boyfriend and what isn’t? We live for so long thinking that we’re accumulating knowledge of how the world works when in fact we have become disillusioned and detached to the experience of innocence that we attempt to preserve.
Next time you want to open your mouth about the way your daughter dresses, next time you want to yell at your kid for having girls over through the night, you ought to ask yourself how well your own marriage is going because there is a lot of learning to do on your part to catch up to the “ignorant kid” that you strive so hard to complete in ways they will never understand or embrace with you.
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