Purity culture is dehumanising – it’s consent that should be at the centre of sex education | Chanel Contos

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If we are educating young people for the purpose of safety, our concern should not be if they are having sex but if they are doing so consensually

‘Not only is our current method of sex education unhelpful, but it is also actively making the problem worse’ … Chanel Contos.‘Not only is our current method of sex education unhelpful, but it is also actively making the problem worse’ … Chanel Contos.Last modified on Wed 1 Feb 2023 03.

On Tuesday someone shared with me another disturbing teaching method they had witnessed when they were volunteering at a retreat day. The “sex educator” glued a pink and a blue piece of paper together and then ripped the pink away from the blue. The pink paper was left with holes in it; and small pink pieces were stuck to the blue paper. With enough gluing and ripping, explained the instructor, the pink paper would shred entirely.

This framework, endemic across cultures and religions for thousands of years, is called purity culture. There may not be arts and crafts involved, but this discourse tends to permeate many Australian households, as we chant that “boys only want one thing” and that it’s a girl’s responsibility to not “give in”.

This is deeply problematic, and dangerous for women. On a basic level, it propagates the idea that a male’s pleasure should be centred during sex. On a deeper and more insidious level, it leaves girls exceptionally vulnerable to sexual assault.

 

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Young women like Chanel Contos know that modern sexual culture is toxic but her insistence that a better awareness of consent will fix this culture is misguided. Consent is only the bare minimum - care & commitment is also necessary for healthy & respectful sexual relationships.

This is a terrible article 'When we consider that these lessons are being taught to children in schools,... How can we be surprised that young boys rape their peers for the social status?' What? this is just rape apologetics by Chanel Contos.

Rubbish. We grew up with this modern sex 'education' shite and it turned girls into skanks and boys into nil-responsibility losers or 'f---boys' as they're colloquially known. People understand consent just fine - they need to understand consequences. auspol

Purity culture is ultimately about controlling women

Milligan should work for the Guardian where she can be openly biased. She doesn't belong at the ABC which is supposed to be unbiased.

These cults don’t prepare their bairns for life past the school gate, so why is anyone surprised they sell them a pup on the sex stuff…

But the Guardian wouldn’t have the balls to say that to Muslims who share the same values. Oh no, that might mean being less of the spineless, gormless, witless cowards that Guardian staff are.

Religious schools promote virtue. Progressives promote vice. Choose your school according to your values.

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