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Your "real question" is a change of topic. The age a particular sexual practice becomes a healthy endeavor depends upon many factors, including, for example, th
by drallison 16y ago
Your "real question" is a change of topic. The age a particular sexual practice becomes a healthy endeavor depends upon many factors, including, for example, the attitude parents have about their own and their child's sexuality. But this thread is about knowledge and not about doing.
We are talking about whether access to information about fisting on Wikipedia should be blocked or not. I argue that if the child is interested, male or female, they should be able to learn what the term means. I also think that kids should be able to see for themselves race-hate propaganda, religious intolerance, naked people, and pornography if they are interested. It's our responsibility, as parents, to help them to look critically at the information they find on the web, on TV, and elsewhere. And we need to be open and willing to answer their questions in a clear, non-judgmental fashion.
It is also our responsibility to teach kids about their bodies and their sexuality and what kinds of endeavors are healthy and what are dangerous. I believe that an informed person, regardless of age, is better off than one who has no information or misinformation.
- shawndumas 16y agoSo you're not gonna answer my question?
- drallison 16y agoNo. I am not going to answer the question and escalate a debate over whether certain information should be kept from children into a debate on what is an appropriate age for children (or adults) to engage in particular sexual practices.
- shawndumas 16y agoAnd information never informs action in your opinion?
- drallison 16y agoNot in this case. Would you block access to entries about murder? robbery? guns? knives? Halloween (the work of the devil to some people)? Santa Claus (who might be discovered not to exist)? or any of the myriad of topics where some might feel information informs action.
- shawndumas 16y agoSo if information does not inform action -- if you where to be consistent -- then you would be against spending money for sex education in the public schools, correct? 'Cause no matter how much information on sex you gave the kids it wouldn't inform their actions.