Following up on the previous story…
What Our Kids Know About Sex: All Mechanics, No Meaning
Recently I found myself in a classroom conversation with a group of 15- and 16-year-old girls about sex and relationships. Bogged down at one point over the question of sexual values, I said, "How about if we shift gears? Let's talk about the meaning that sex is supposed to have in people's lives. Maybe that will help us think more clearly." "Meaning?" the girl next to me said, looking totally nonplussed. "Sex is supposed to have meaning? What do you mean by that?" My heart sank.I knew that popular culture had undermined fundamental values, but until that moment I hadn't realized, or accepted, quite how profoundly. The sexual revolution really is over, I thought, and sex has finally lost.
Funky Dung
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