SophiaGrace said:
Why can't I express my sexuality as if it exists? Why do people pretend it doesn't exist and shield their kids from it as if it's dirty and bad? Sex is a natural part of life. I'm not sure why people moralize it into something bad.
I see what you mean, and I agree that sex is a natural part of life and that it's healthy that you feel like expressing it. And I also feel like it would be unhealthy to suppress it against your will.
I think people moralize it into something bad because sex is seen as animalistic, uncivilized, lacking in self-control or dignity, decadent, and overall contrary to the puritan work ethic and ideals. I think it's mostly a holdover from an earlier era and while i don't think it's good to be ruled by sex or anything else, I don't entirely agree with it because like we both said, sex is a natural part of life and denial or forced repression isn't healthy.
Then again, i think some forms of sexual expression are dark and i wish they would go away. Things like strip clubs and pornography. It gives off a very disturbing vibe to me, a sense of wrongness and i don't like it.
And I for one am glad I was shielded from sex as a kid. Kids just aren't mature enough to really understand it, physically, mentally, emotionally. That's why I think it is often grouped with dark topics like violence and death. It's not that the topics are necessarily always related or that sex is as bad as those other things - it's that kids aren't ready to process it yet and react to it in a mature way.
Also, I'm glad I wasn't exposed to it so that I had more time to be a kid. So that I had more time to stay young and just play, more time to think about kid things like toys, games, cartoons, parks, and make-believe. When I was young it seemed like everyone else wanted to grow up so quickly. From my earliest days in school, the girls were cliquey, snobbish, and cold, and the guys had already formed a hierarchy around sports. Then in around 5th grade it started to be about angry music with swears for swears' sake and who was dating who and rampant sex jokes and innuendoes. Then after that, it was all of that plus weed. It seemed like everyone else was in such a rush to get to that and skip straight to the grown-up world, while i was one of the very few that wanted to stay as kids. A lot of the time it seemed like i was the only one. I'm glad i stayed a kid for as long as possible, and there is a lot i wish i could un-know. Every day, i'm torn between wanting to get what i want as an adult and wishing i could go back to childhood and how i was.