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- From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
- Subject: Re: pre-teen sex play
- Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
- Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
- Message-ID: <C17M0G.1AAv@austin.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:07:28 GMT
- Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
- References: <4570318@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com>
- Organization: IBM Object Technology Products
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- janem@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Jane Marcus) writes:
- > While I'm sure this activity falls into the normal category, I think
- > that it's important to discuss it with your sister-in-law. It's hard
- > to tell from your description what the kids were doing and how much they
- > were acting as partners. When there are sex partners involved, then
- > it is imperative that talks about AIDS and safe sex begin if they have
- > not already. Parents are often the last people to see their kids as
- > sexual beings, and your sister-in-law needs to be alerted to the fact
- > that its time for some serious sex education. Unfortunately, the
- > thread of AIDS makes it unwise to ignore evidence of sexual play.
-
- While I can understand your concern about AIDS and all, I don't
- think this is particularly good advice. The boys in the original
- post were, what, 11 years old? And while you could argue that kids
- are having sex earlier&earlier, I would counter-argue that telling
- an 11 year old boy's mother that you saw him engaged in sexplay with
- one of his male friends would be _A LOT_ more harmful than helpful...
- as one poster previously mentioned, this sort of thing is really
- common at that age (I did it myself), but it's not the kind of thing
- a parent wants to be confrontational about (unless the kid starts
- doing it at the dinner table or something)(even now, at my advanced
- age of 33, I'm mortified to think of how my mom would have reacted
- if I'd been caught; probably would have warped me for life).
-
- Perhaps a "stealthy" approach would do the most good: instead of
- "You know, I saw your son engaged in mutual masturbation with his
- friend William", how about "You know, your son's 11 years old now...
- I read something somewhere about how that's about when boys start
- discovering their sexuality etc. With AIDS and all, maybe you and
- his father should consider having "a little talk" with him about
- sex."
-
- Craig
-
- Not the opinion of my employer.
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