Forum: OT


Subject: Are some people walking a fine line here?...or am I nutz?

ElectricAardvark opened this issue on Apr 10, 2002 ยท 100 posts


ChuckEvans posted Fri, 12 April 2002 at 9:26 PM

I just finished "First Monday" and, as usual, it had good points on both sides. Certainly a dramatic point being made at the end to sway the vote to overturn the earlier decision. The show made points that I get worried about (in other words...): Make that decision about child nudity (etc.) and you effectively eliminate sex education books dealing with the adolescent child, recognized works of (video) art like "Taxi Driver", etc. And as the series also explained, the decision in no way "endorsed" child pornograghy. Nor do I. But banning everything that the lowest common denominator might find an objection with is not the answer...because the lowest common denominator might be the same kind of people (men) we learned about in Afganistan. The answer is in educating as best as can be done. I certainly feel that I am as open and as honest as I can be with our daughter...age 7 now. She is overly friendly, not shy at all (a good thing, but something that needs to be watched). We have emphasized over and over the obvious things: strangers in cars, friends in cars, friends when we are not around, good touching and bad touching, etc. (all the usual). And from age 3, we taught her that she had a vagina and boys had a penis, instead of "tootoo", "tushy", etc. She still walks across the house after a bath while drying to tell us something and I love that innocence about her. She doesn't think a thing about it and I'm so glad she can be like that. I have taken pictures of her (I think when she was 5 or 6) sitting on the bed with the sheets over her legs and I think they are beautiful. I would have posted them on our family website, but my wife suggested someone might turn us in for child pornography because her (5/6-year old) chest was bare. (instead, we posted from the neck up because her expression was so great, and the main point of the whole photograph). But we refrained from posting what both of us agreed was a great picture because "fanatics" exist.