my goodness, what *prudes* they're raising here

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Twice this week, I have had teenagers bring me stuff they thought was inappropriate for kids to check that I knew about them. And I had to explain both times that they were perfectly fine for the ages they were intended for, and that many people did not find them offensive. Meanwhile, I'm mentally thinking that isn't this the age where they should be rooting for more nudity?

One was a 13-year-old girl who thought It's Perfectly Normal shouldn't be in the children's room (it's a sex ed book for children, hand-drawn, cartoonish pictures). Then, a 14-year-old boy going through a stack of manga the YA librarian had brought in, and exclaiming that many shouldn't be available to teenagers be cause people were nekkid! Again, not photographs, hand-drawn, in B&W.

I despair for healthy attitudes toward sex in the future.

Comments

[roguepuppet.livejournal.com]

my kids are scary prudes when it comes to sex.. and gods know they did not get that from me or my household. to their peers, showing your belly ( cropped shirt) is risque and the fact that I have my nipples pierced was scandalous. There is an odd movement afoot in the 12-16 yr old crowd. Someone must have mixed something in with the DARE materials and not told us about it...

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I am just going to hope their parents secretly put them up to it.