When I was in 7th grade...or 8th grade really...I looked for books of this nature. Not for sexual enjoyment, nor for any sort of entertainment. I just needed some information about the dark side of the gay community. I wanted to know everything I was getting myself into.
I couldn't find these books. What happened?
I became prey. I became promiscuous from a young age and was taken advantage of severely from many different people. I also wasn't safe. It was not thoroughly explained to me how dangerous sex was until I got my first AIDS and STD tests when I was 16. It took my boyfriend at the time dying from AIDS related causes to really open my eyes.
I didn't know any better because there wasn't any information presented to me nor anybody to talk to. Many pieces of information were denied from me even because of their lewd nature, i.e. Dad taking away my XY magazines and screaming at me for bringing "child pornography" into his house.
I am not defending the use of pornography outright. I am not defending the use of explicit sexual literature that has no real point besides providing an excitable read. I have to defend, however, that this information cannot be kept from kids these days. It's like abstinence-only education. Just because you're keeping the ugliness away does not mean you are preventing it.
What is the real problem here? Is it that these books are too explicit, or is the fact that they are merely stories about what many gay kids get caught up in and nobody wants to deal with that can of worms?
I think our next book in the club should be "Passages of Pride."
(Yes, I am still reading the current book but it's a hard book to read. And I apologize for reading FOXNews again.)
i think any sort of literature should be age appropriate and teachers should be versed enough in that literature to provide guidance and objective discussions of the text.
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When I was in 7th grade...or 8th grade really...I looked for books of this nature. Not for sexual enjoyment, nor for any sort of entertainment. I just needed some information about the dark side of the gay community. I wanted to know everything I was getting myself into.
I couldn't find these books. What happened?
I became prey. I became promiscuous from a young age and was taken advantage of severely from many different people. I also wasn't safe. It was not thoroughly explained to me how dangerous sex was until I got my first AIDS and STD tests when I was 16. It took my boyfriend at the time dying from AIDS related causes to really open my eyes.
I didn't know any better because there wasn't any information presented to me nor anybody to talk to. Many pieces of information were denied from me even because of their lewd nature, i.e. Dad taking away my XY magazines and screaming at me for bringing "child pornography" into his house.
I am not defending the use of pornography outright. I am not defending the use of explicit sexual literature that has no real point besides providing an excitable read. I have to defend, however, that this information cannot be kept from kids these days. It's like abstinence-only education. Just because you're keeping the ugliness away does not mean you are preventing it.
What is the real problem here? Is it that these books are too explicit, or is the fact that they are merely stories about what many gay kids get caught up in and nobody wants to deal with that can of worms?
I think our next book in the club should be "Passages of Pride."
(Yes, I am still reading the current book but it's a hard book to read. And I apologize for reading FOXNews again.)
your right about freedom of information.
it is important to fight the real evil of ignorance.
E
i think any sort of literature should be age appropriate and teachers should be versed enough in that literature to provide guidance and objective discussions of the text.
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