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ParanoidObsessive 07/29/21 9:16:39 PM #26:	adjl posted... I've seen people advocate for showing kids porn in sex ed, under the rationale that it provides an opportunity to examine it critically and understand what is and isn't realistic so they develop mroe reasonable expectations around sex. Naturally, the reaction was about on par with what this lady got, but I think there's some merit to the idea. The real problem is that showing kids porn wouldn't help anyway, because it isn't really the PORN that's the sticking point. For people who accept the premise that porn can desensitize people and impede the formation of healthy relationships and psychosexual patterns of behavior, the problem is more the social side of the equation rather than the physical one, and the idea of idealizing the partner into a sex object rather than seeing them as a person. Pretty much any sort of porn is potentially going to exacerbate that problem - even in purely softcore or straight missionary porn, you're effectively fetishizing the object of lust and leading to a disconnect. If anything, what we should probably have instead of sex ed is a relationship ed class. And I don't mean those BS health classes where they randomly pair kids up and give them an egg or a bag of flower or a robot doll to take care of as parents, I mean a class that actually gets into the more psychological aspects of social interaction, and explores the emotional and interpersonal elements of relationships to encourage people to see each other more as actual people and not just sex objects - that's more what leads to porn addiction, desensitization, and the downward spiral that leads people to see out more and more taboo and transgressive sexual fantasies to get off on. The real problem is that most of the classes we should be teaching in schools (stuff like this, organizational and long-term planning, life skills that will actually come in handy after you graduate, etc) would require a massive and near-complete overhaul of our educational system from the ground up (and half the population would probably object to it anyway), and that's way too much work. Easier to just teaching the same curriculum that people came up with years ago even if it doesn't really have practical applications anymore and wait for it to become someone else's problem later. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:956593514] in Journalist... [t:79589324]...</cite> <quote><cite>adjl posted...</cite> <quote>I've seen people advocate for showing kids porn in sex ed, under the rationale that it provides an opportunity to examine it critically and understand what is and isn't realistic so they develop mroe reasonable expectations around sex. Naturally, the reaction was about on par with what this lady got, but I think there's some merit to the idea.</quote> The real problem is that showing kids porn wouldn't help anyway, because it isn't really the PORN that's the sticking point. For people who accept the premise that porn can desensitize people and impede the formation of healthy relationships and psychosexual patterns of behavior, the problem is more the social side of the equation rather than the physical one, and the idea of idealizing the partner into a sex object rather than seeing them as a person. Pretty much any sort of porn is potentially going to exacerbate that problem - even in purely softcore or straight missionary porn, you're effectively fetishizing the object of lust and leading to a disconnect. If anything, what we should probably have instead of sex ed is a relationship ed class. And I don't mean those BS health classes where they randomly pair kids up and give them an egg or a bag of flower or a robot doll to take care of as parents, I mean a class that actually gets into the more psychological aspects of social interaction, and explores the emotional and interpersonal elements of relationships to encourage people to see each other more as actual people and not just sex objects - that's more what leads to porn addiction, desensitization, and the downward spiral that leads people to see out more and more taboo and transgressive sexual fantasies to get off on. The real problem is that most of the classes we should be teaching in schools (stuff like this, organizational and long-term planning, life skills that will actually come in handy after you graduate, etc) would require a massive and near-complete overhaul of our educational system from the ground up (and half the population would probably object to it anyway), and that's way too much work. Easier to just teaching the same curriculum that people came up with years ago even if it doesn't really have practical applications anymore and wait for it to become someone else's problem later. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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