because I love YOU most of all, flist.
so, because I'm a masochist, I just watched the recent-ish Oprah episode about how to talk to your kids about sex.
pretty much all I've got to say about that is, it breaks my heart how sex-negative most Americans are in general, how squeamish they are about giving honest answers to their kids, and the fact that it's *shocking* to a room full of women to suggest that it might be a good idea to encourage their daughters to masturbate, so that they have an outlet for the inevitable urges that need to go *somewhere* if you want to keep them from having sex too young...whatever your personal threshold for that might be.
every once in a while one of you lovely people will post about discussions that you've had with your kids about sex & gender issues, and it always makes me feel warm and fuzzy and reassured that there are people out there having open and honest discussions. my own parents were the standard model of repression, but that's what I had a big sister for.
so I just wanted to say thanks, flist. keep up the good work :)
pretty much all I've got to say about that is, it breaks my heart how sex-negative most Americans are in general, how squeamish they are about giving honest answers to their kids, and the fact that it's *shocking* to a room full of women to suggest that it might be a good idea to encourage their daughters to masturbate, so that they have an outlet for the inevitable urges that need to go *somewhere* if you want to keep them from having sex too young...whatever your personal threshold for that might be.
every once in a while one of you lovely people will post about discussions that you've had with your kids about sex & gender issues, and it always makes me feel warm and fuzzy and reassured that there are people out there having open and honest discussions. my own parents were the standard model of repression, but that's what I had a big sister for.
so I just wanted to say thanks, flist. keep up the good work :)