Sex, Decisions, Police

My little motto is partly, of course, in jest since as Bromios pointed out, in today's world the sex segregation of younger people that prevailed in practically all societies and eras until the last half century in our own (that should give you pause -- have we figured out things our ancestors missed? Occasionally yes, mostly no) is "utterly, ferociously, furiously impossible." But for what it's worth, one does not have to have a police state enforcing rigid rules. Co-ed schools simply disappear -- if you want education, you go to a single sex school. Schools for boys are run by men; those for girls by women. Don't even bother applying if you are a man to be a teacher or administrator in a girl's school -- and vice versa Scouting and other youth organizations, youth choirs (where there is musical as well as social justification for sex segregation), sports teams, church youth groups are automatically sex-segregated. (Doesn't sound so odd, does it? Was the case within yours and my living memories.) Sure, most adolescent boys would prefer sex with girls. But sex with girls carries enormous risk -- pregnancy -- which sex with other males doesn't. So boys are taught that sex with females is to be reserved for the marital bed. Sex with other males is fine as long as as there is absolutely no coercion, complete consent on both sides, and it's not too blatant. (Situation that prevailed in many places -- e.g., Japan, the "pederasty belt" as Gide described the lands from Morocco to the Philippines -- until the early 20th century). Vice versa is also true. I'm all for Sapphic infatuation and sex play among girls and women. As for the police, we agree. Get them out of bedrooms. Sex segregation among younger people should be enforced by social norms (as it historically was) not by the police who should be involved ONLY in cases of genuine rape -- i.e. where one person forces him or herself on another. It would be a better world -- for women and girls as well as boys and men. Of that I'm absolutely convinced. SR