I mean, about people who think it is best to preserve kids from the realities of life and protect their "innocence", because they are not ready for it. It's called the School of Wives. In this comedy, a man makes sure a girl under his protection gets raised without any knowledge of sex, so that she remains ignorant of it until she is in age of marrying. With the secret hope that she will marry him, of course ;) As puritans are not that selfless and pure in their intents, are they? But the girl eventually meets a young man who falls in love with her and is ready to give her an "education". And of course the girl wants to marry that man, because, as she says to her tutor: You've really done a great job here, and made me learn everything nicely! Do you think I feel proud of myself, and that in my mind I don't realize that I'm a fool? I'm ashamed of myself; and, at the age I am, I don't want to pass for a fool any more, if I can. [...] It is from him that I know what I can know, and much more than from you I think I owe him. The youth wants to experience the world, and rightly so. People who wants to prevent them from what their youth demands them to do, even if it is sometimes quite risky, are not their friends but their foes. Of course it doesn't mean adults have no responsibility in that process. They shouldn't take advantage of kids, but rather guide them with benevolence in the discovery of the world. And that includes sexuality. Too many adults, unfortunately, cowardly refuse to support kids in that way, even when they are in no risk of breaching any law by doing so. That's quite sad, and leads to many tragedies. Lots of happy boys to you, FF ![]() mi lon. mute mije lili kin li lon. o sina kute e mi, mi ala wile, pilin pona mi li anpa e pilin ante. |