As a parent, you always wonder when and how you will have THE sex talk. Is it at 12? 14? 9??? What will I say? Keep it simple, but not too simple. How will my child react? and on and on. It's something that we all should be slightly nervous about, but also proud and excited that the later stages of parenting are rolling up. And that our child will soon be an adult. It's really a wonderful milestone: sexual maturity.
I have just come to the realization that it's not going to be what I had thought that it would be 9 years ago when my son was born. I don't think I will be able to focus on his feelings, changes, how to treat girls and how to be safe. I think that the most urgent and dubious topic of sexual maturity these days is media. Porn, sexts, facebook/twitter/whatever, dick pics. Yes, there is a cute, rhymie name for penis photos that you sext out into the world. Imagine! I just learned about dick pics from John Oliver in an enlightening interview about privacy with whistle-blower Edward Snowden. It basically demonstrates that average people don't really care about privacy unless you frame in the context of their dick pics. Huh.
The doc that really got me thinking about our children is called "Sext Up Kids" by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). If you are outside of Canada, here is a high school version of Sext Up Kids that you can watch on YouTube. It really rings home the notion that the media overly objectifies girls at alarmingly younger ages and that boys and girls access to and consumption of porn is destroying their sexual mentalities.
We need to know what's going on out there.
Sex Bracelet Game
The Sun or Star Game
Scary (not sexual) Teen Games
Preschoolers Imitating Oral Sex
Russian Sex Roulette
Rape called Lucky Mexican is a "new" term in the UrbanDictionary.com
Open Letter to My Son About
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