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How did you
first learn about sex?
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Found porn
in my parents' bedside table...then, well after the fact, my mother "casually" left
a copy of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*" out
where I would be certain to happen across it. (I seem to recall it was
on the staircase leading up to our bedrooms.) Later (much, much later)
there was Sex Ed in school.
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Do you feel
the information you were given was adequate?
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More than
adequate.
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What do you
think of the quality of sex education today?
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Depends where
you live. In the 70's, in California, it was excellent. In the 90's in
Louisiana, they were still fighting to keep it off the schools' curriculum.
Very disturbing.
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Do you feel
that the media's obsession with sex leaves nothing left for parents
to teach their kids?
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The media's
obsession with sex is dangerous if parents don't teach them something
more than they'll see on TV or at the movies. Hollywood (or for that
matter, the news) is NOT real life.
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Do you think
that sexuality education should be treated differently for girls than
it is for boys?
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Yes. Women
need to know more than guys...they're at greater risk of being taken
advantage of because--sadly--even in the new millennium, young girls
regularly don't get enough of the facts to make smart choices.
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Does the
advertising of "women's sanitary products" on TV bother you?
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Nah. The
nose-hair clippers bother me, though.<shudder>
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How early,
is too early to learn about sex?
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Never. From
the time children are born and exploring their own bodies, they're learning
about sex...whether we're explicitly teaching them or not. Teach them
what they're ready (or need) to know at each age. (And if I knew what
that was, I'd be a millionaire...)
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If you knew then what
you know now, what would you do differently?
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The first girl who tried
to get me to go down on her, and later, the first girl who put her tongue
in my mouth, and lastly, the first girl who tried to get me to make out
with her...I would have done it.
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If you had
a teenage daughter and there was a book available which contained graphic
information about female sexuality, orgasm, masturbation techniques -
designed to teach them everything about their sexuality - while recommending
the delaying experimentation with penetrative sex until of emotional maturity
(and legal age) - would you let her read it? (please give reasons why)
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Yes. Because
it's the right thing to do. I had sons. Since we were in Louisiana (remember,
no Sex Ed in schools) I took them to classes where we learned together
about masturbation, nocturnal emissions, puberty, venereal disease, pregnancy,
etc. If I'd had a daughter, I would have encouraged my wife to arrange
to attend the female course with her on the same subjects.
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How did
you first hear about exotic sexual practices such as fetishism and group
sex?
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"Everything
You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*" Fairly comprehensive primer.
Then, later, the really exotic stuff I had to read about in mags like "Variations" and
after the Internet, online. Just when I think I've heard it all, there's
always something new...
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Do you feel
that the increasingly mainstream reference to these things is a good thing?
(ie: Threesomes and guy's facination with Lesbianism being a standard
punch line on sitcoms these days).
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Can we become
jaded? Inured? Over-tolerant? I'm not sure what the reason for this question
is...but if you don't like what you're seeing, turn it off. Complain
(loudly) to the networks--AND THEIR SPONSORS! I worry that TV and media
are giving us what we really want...a sad state of affairs, if true.
No one will really know what the harm is until 20 or 30 years from now
when we see how it's affected the next generation...and by then, it'll
be too late. I like to think (hope) that there's been too much repression
and that a healthy attitude toward sex (for men AND women) is a good
thing. An obsession about sex (or about anything) is not. Hard to say
which side of the line this falls on.
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