by Chris Bodenner
A reader makes a simple but astute point:
As a parent of two teenage daughters, I’ve thought about this question a lot. I've concluded that it's not a "taboo" thing to shield kids from sex; it’s a responsible parenting and practical societal thing. There are already lots of societal and moral impediments to engaging in violence. It’s universally criminal, and it’s universally considered immoral. And if it’s perpetrated on you, it hurts.
But sex is a good thing.
It's what animals are made to do. It's how each of us got here. It’s fun. But we don't want teenagers doing it. Encouraging teens to have sex before they're mature enough to understand it increases unwanted pregnancies, STDs, emotional issues. The problem is that their bodies are capable of having sex (and really WANT to have sex) long before their brains are even close to being able to deal with the consequences. That's why we as a society are more vigilant guarding against exposing our kids to sex than to violence.
Xaver Xylophon, who along with Laura Junger created the above video, says their work is "about the human drive to destroy and the absurd entertaining value that's attached to it."
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