Sex shouldn't be seen as inappropriate- until unless it's forced and illegal.

✰The idea that sex itself is a taboo or inappropriate topic, rather than a natural part of human life that only becomes wrong when it's forced, is a deeply harmful approach that causes more problems than it solves. This mindset is particularly damaging because of how it handles the education of children. Here’s why this is so problematic. 

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1. It Creates a Culture of Shame and Ignorance, Not Safety.

●By treating all talk of sex as something dirty or forbidden, we attach a sense of shame to a fundamental aspect of human biology and relationships. This doesn't make anyone safer; it just makes them uninformed and embarrassed about their own bodies.

❥The "Forbidden Fruit" Effect: When something is made secret and taboo, it doesn't disappear—it just becomes more intriguing and is pursued in secret, often without proper guidance. This can lead teens to seek information from unreliable sources like pornography, which provides a wildly distorted and often violent picture of sex and relationships.

❥Shame Prevents Reporting: If a child is taught that anything related to sex is bad and shouldn't be discussed, they are far less likely to speak up if they experience abuse. An abuser often relies on this exact silence and shame, making the child feel complicit or guilty. A child who understands their body in a factual, non-shaming way is empowered to say, "What you are doing to me is wrong," and to tell a trusted adult.

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2. It Actively Prevents Proper Education and Safety.

●The argument that we must"protect children's innocence" by hiding information about sex is a dangerous miscalculation. Knowledge is not the same as experience; giving a child age-appropriate information is what truly protects them.

❥Lack of Bodily Autonomy: When we don't teach children the correct names for their body parts (like penis, vulva, vagina) and instead use "cute" euphemisms, we subtly teach them that these parts are too shameful to name. This makes it incredibly difficult to then teach them that they have autonomy over those same parts. A child who can't say "Don't touch my vulva" is less equipped to stop an abuser.

❥No Understanding of Consent: If we never talk about sex in a healthy context, we can't possibly teach the crucial concept of consent. Consent isn't just about sex; it's about the fundamental right to control what happens to your body. A child who is never taught about boundaries, "good touch vs. bad touch," and that their "no" should be respected, becomes a vulnerable target and may not even recognize when their boundaries are being violated.

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3. It Confuses the Real Issue: Force vs. Activity.

●The core problem with treating all sexual topics as inappropriate is that it fails to make the most critical moral distinction:the difference between consensual activity and forced violence.

❥By making it all taboo, we lump together a loving, consensual act between adults with the violent crime of rape and assault. This is a profound failure of moral reasoning. It's like treating a home-cooked meal and a poisoning as the same thing because they both involve food.

❥The real taboo should be on coercion, manipulation, and violence, not on the biological act itself. When we refuse to make this distinction, we end up with a culture that sometimes shames victims of assault ("what were you wearing?") while simultaneously failing to give young people the tools to build safe, respectful, and pleasurable intimate lives.

✰In short, shielding children from any and all information about sex does not keep them innocent; it keeps them ignorant and vulnerable. True protection comes from demystifying the subject, replacing shame with knowledge, and arming them with the understanding of bodily autonomy and consent. This is how we build a generation that is truly safe, respectful, and capable of healthy relationships, while unequivocally condemning the force and abuse that is the real violation.