Aswad
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Oh, well, I'll just edit it and repost. Rewritten for VAT; please forgive any discontinuities (I didn't get the quotes from the pulled post for context): As far as I can tell, the average child of previous generations where I live has not enjoyed more innocence at any point in the past twelve centuries or so than they do now. For the most part, it seems to me that it is parents that enjoy the innocence of children, which is a habit our culture has largely imported from the USA, actually. Of course, predators also enjoy the innocence of children, particularly when artificially bolstered by well-meaning parents. Note that I'm not suggesting that parents are setting their kids up for those intentionally, but rather that they do so unintentionally, out of ignorance and good intentions. There is no single standard that is universal. A pulled post asserted that the poster would've been traumatized by seeing the genitals of the opposite sex as a child. I cannot agree. For one thing, it just doesn't happen where I live. If Alice and Christie are of the same ethnicity, living in two different cultures, and seeing a cock traumatizes Alice, but doesn't traumatize Christie, then it is the difference- the culture- that causes Alice to be traumatized. And we know the reactions from the environment can absolutely be traumatizing to a child. The only alternative explanation I can come up with would be if Alice were, as an individual, too fragile to deal with reality. There's never been any gender separation in my home, or the homes of anyone I know here that wasn't part of some cult growing up. This helps to equip them with a normal relationship to their bodies and those of others, whereas a shameful relation to the body is just grooming people for all sorts of fancy extra kinks. Now, I don't mind kinks in any way, but these include harmful pathologies, and that is a problem. As regards transpeople, reality and nature support a blurring of gender lines, as does the law. One may, of course, fight the laws of humans, nature and reality, but I'm not about to laud the effort. Normal children process this sort of thing at whatever age it's presented to them. Reservations about the human body and its variations are taboos originating with the parents. Please don't try to inflict your own taboos on everyone else's kids; no need to let the damage spread. Lastly, I would note that some cultures are creepily obsessed about sex. The culture exported from the USA is one of those. IWYW, — Aswad.
< Message edited by Aswad -- 11/10/2012 1:44:12 PM >
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