PUBLIC NUDITY / SEX DISCUSSION
I was watching a little documentary about porn producers last night. They specialised in solo female public nudity. I was infuriated to learn that, even though they basically did guerrilla filming in the streets and in parks, they were obsessed about not being accidentally seen by kids. It was hard to tell if this was a personal obsession or more to do with public hysteria around sex. (Of course, these overlap.)
What's going to happen to someone under 18 years old if they see nudity? Corrupted for life? Unable to function? What's going to happen if they stumble across sexuality being filmed? Might they learn something exists the adults don't want them to find out?
This attitude infuriates me BECAUSE IT IS EXACTLY THE ATTITUDE THAT PUTS KIDS IN DANGER. Why puts them in danger? Because acting as if no one under 18 has a sexuality or a naked body is not educating them about who and what both they and we all are. And it gives them no framework or context in which to process what they are almost certain to see and experience anyway. The sad and horrifying reality of the sexual abuse of under 18s is massively fuelled by the fact that talking to anyone under 18 about sex (let alone letting them see it) is hugely anathematised by puritanical adults leading to a climate of fear and taboo WHICH HELPS NO ONE AND MAKES UNDER 18s MORE VULNERABLE.
It does not help non-adults to keep them ignorant. But it does make them easier prey for sexual predators and opportunists and it does fuck society up generally in regard to how it deals with sex. And the fact is - hopefully you are not learning this for the first time - a human being does not have the sexuality function switched off up until 17 years 364 days but it gets magically switched on at 18 years. Sending sexually uneducated young adults out into the the world does not strike me as mature behaviour. No wonder so many people have abuse stories to tell and sex seems to become something purely about exploitation.
[#]sex #porn #education
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