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[This Year's December Days Theme is Community, and all the forms that it takes. If you have some suggestions about what communities I'm part of (or that you think I'm part of) that would be worth a look, let me know in the comments.]
The podcast This American Life, which is probably a thing that I need to go on a true archive binge for, when they are running stories or episodes that may or may not be suitable for young ears, have a disclaimer and content notes for the story / episode that's about to play. Most of the content notes are standard, but there's an idiosyncratic one that, when I first heard it, went, "That's fascinating." That content note is "this story / episode acknowledges the existence of sex."
( This post acknowledges the existence of sex. And sexual assault. )
So, yes, I acknowledge the existence of sex, and there's a big community of people out there who also do so, some of whom have been trained as educators or therapists to help people get accurate information and work through shame or curiosity. I still think that it was good for me that when I got asked by someone about where the sex books were, I was able to ask relevant questions that helped narrow the query to something useful, and then point the person to informative resources. Not freezing up or thinking the question inappropriate was good for me to understand, as well.
The podcast This American Life, which is probably a thing that I need to go on a true archive binge for, when they are running stories or episodes that may or may not be suitable for young ears, have a disclaimer and content notes for the story / episode that's about to play. Most of the content notes are standard, but there's an idiosyncratic one that, when I first heard it, went, "That's fascinating." That content note is "this story / episode acknowledges the existence of sex."
( This post acknowledges the existence of sex. And sexual assault. )
So, yes, I acknowledge the existence of sex, and there's a big community of people out there who also do so, some of whom have been trained as educators or therapists to help people get accurate information and work through shame or curiosity. I still think that it was good for me that when I got asked by someone about where the sex books were, I was able to ask relevant questions that helped narrow the query to something useful, and then point the person to informative resources. Not freezing up or thinking the question inappropriate was good for me to understand, as well.
