Sex-Negative Education and Rape

It makes sense. You tell kids they can't do something, they will try to find a way to do it.  The trouble with the sex negative and abstinence-only education is that kids think of sex as bad and evil.  Its nasty and something to hide.  When they have questions, they have no one to turn too.  If they do have sex, they have no information.


I found this blog post Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape...

'Here’s my take: when you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an undifferentiated mass of “wrong.”  If all sex is wrong, then why try to tease out good from bad, pleasurable from painful? 

When students are taught not to think about sex, they aren't going to spend any time determining what they do and don’t want, or what they might be interested in.  Of course, they’re going to have sex eventually, but when it happens will they be able to communicate at all through the veil of guilt, shame, and self-loathing that sex negativity encourage?...' Read more here

After reading that check out this post about Catholic U in the USA.  Did you know the kids in this University are banned from premarital sex and masturbation?  Guess what ...

'...In fact, when I surveyed the sexual activity at Catholic U. in 2009, the university's attempts to clamp down on relations—it bans all premarital sex, masturbation included—only made students' "risky behavior" riskier. 

College students at every school are going to find a way to hook up; at Catholic, they were just forced to sneak behind the backs of the school administration and the residence assistants tasked with keeping them safe. Catholic University students had limited access to condoms and birth control and were less comfortable approaching authority figures over sex-related problems. ...' Read more here

Now all that applies to straight, gay,trans and questioning kids, I imagine there is a double or triple whammy effect on those gay,trans and questioning kids who could pile up multiple sins simply being who they are.