What to make of this?
Four fifth graders had sex in an unattended classroom, posting a fifth student as a lookout. Click here for the story on CNN. Four of the five students have been charged with felony obscenity in...
View ArticleDo kids need protection from sex or from sexually explicit material?
And if so, what kind and how much? For example, does a child need to be protected from sexually suggestive New Yorker cartoon (I saw one recently that showed three people in a bed together, and another...
View ArticleWhat is the cut-off age for being a kid?
I think lots of people actually feel differently about older teenagers having sex and younger teenagers having sex. And they certainly feel differently about either of those groups having sex than they...
View ArticleSex play
What is the difference between the kind of sex play or exploration that kids naturally do, and inappropriate sexual interaction? I was reading in "Everything you never wanted your kids to know about...
View ArticleBalancing freedom for adults with safety for children
What happens when protection for kids unreasonably restricts freedoms for adults? For example, when Internet filtering software interferes with adults -- as well as non-adult -- access to information...
View Articlegod does not want 16 children
"Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that's right 16 kids and try not to cringe in...
View ArticleBullying + homophobia + hegemonic masculinity = death
Jargon alert: There are many ways to be masculine and many ways to be feminine, but there is one culturally approved masculinity that characterizes people at the top of the gender hierarchy in the...
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