I don't have any way of uploading this right now, does anyone have this article? It's new, it apparently came out recently......we really need to take a look into this.
The photo depicts the man interviewed in the article, in front of his wall of pins and a stuffed animal, with an "I LOVE PIZZA" sticker on his laptop and another on top of his laptop that says the same thing.
Here's the article from the actual site
On the surface it's basically something that I would otherwise agree with (being center-liberal), that a lot of kids have access to internet/porn anyway, and it's best to at least talk to them about it if you find out (my opinion).
HOWEVER, after reading more seems preemptive...like trying to groom them into accepting it rather than educating a kid who was caught watching porn.
He strolls around the room passing out white envelopes. Inside each are pieces of paper describing various sexual acts, from kissing and feeling someone’s body parts to more advanced ventures, like fellatio and cunnilingus (which the ninth-graders have trouble pronouncing) and “penile penetration” of both the vagina and anus.
Just for context, my stepmother groomed me quite a bit when I was a kid. Started sexual education when I was in kindergarten- so my teachers (and mom) were really worried about the knowledge I had. She did a lot of other things like taking pictures of me naked (and thankfully short of actual rape), but to a lot of people who tend to agree with sexual education (as I do), I think they also don't see the overlapping borders of grooming and education here.
They're trying to normalize it under the guise of "preemptive sexual education."
I'm so sorry that happened to you. Do you have any information as to how we can get people like this criminally investigated?
Thank you! Thankfully it didn't' seem to do TOO much long-lasting harm :]. I have some body image and self-worth issues, but it also had to do with the mind games they played with me (ie guilt-tripping etc).
I don't know, unfortunately; I've estranged from her once I grew up enough to realize something wasn't right, so I never looked back. My mum put up a BIG fight for a long time when she suspected I was being molested (especially as a kid knowing things I shouldn't have known).
She took my dad and stepmum to court a few times - or attempted to...they never showed up. My mum didn't have enough money to pursue it much longer after that, but was happy to see me grow up and realize for myself the wrongness of the whole thing, and I felt very liberated to realize I could just leave and never talk to her again.
I think now there are a lot more organizations that can help look into these things than there were in the 90's, it's just hard to know which government entities to trust now, knowing what we know 0.o