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Cooking Steak @cookingsteak@possums.gay
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@ebi i agree with that. It's hard to figure out in these situations how much is too much. Ideally children would be getting sex ed from adults who studied the topic, so I wonder if society at large thinks that this is crossing said boundary? I would argue it's better to learn about things like proper consent from trusted adults than random twitter account, and yeah kids are going to be curious and teens especially will find ways to circumvent age restriction.

While typing I was reminded me of something in comics that could be comparable. There was a Spiderman comic at one point that told a story about the dangers of drugs, but took a different approach from just saying "they are bad", which was showing the consequences of abusing them. Then the Comics Code wouldn't put their approval seal on it simply for mentioning drugs at all. I think it's similar with sex ed; instead of hiding it entirely or just saying it needs to be restricted, teens should get better sources for the info, that teaches them the safe way to go about it, and the consequences of not doing so.