"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity."

H. H. Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate Encyclical. June 29, 2009

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Sexual education

Good sexual education is learning how to discipline the body so as to pursue long-term happiness.

Bad sexual education is about how dealing with an uncontrolled body, it's about damage control.

Worst sexual education is misleading the body towards depravity, a.k.a. soul slaving by a body gone mad. It's the opposite of sexual freedom.

Good sexual education is learning about the meaningful role of sex in human fulfillment of happiness. It's about love.

Shallow sexual education is learning about body parts and bodily functions which are anyway written in instinct.

Good sexual education is about duty rather than pleasure, which paradoxically leads to pleasure.

Bad sexual education is about pleasure rather than duty, which paradoxically leads away from enduring pleasure.

Good sexual education is about using sex in pursuit of happiness.

Bad sexual education leads to sacrificing happiness to void sex.

Good sexual education leads towards enjoying sex.

Bad sexual education leads towards suffering sex, towards sex as a vice.

Good sexual education is about love for others.

Bad sexual education is about selfishness.

Bad sexual education is about not being an adolescent mother. It gives ideas about postponing which "make sense" far beyond adolescence.

Good sexual education is about not being a single mother. It gives ideas about how to start a family.

Good sexual education is about children, and becoming parent as a means. It's about giving.

Bad sexual education is about the selfish pleasure of parenting using the child as a means. It's about asking. It's about human pets.

Good sexual education is about lifetime compromise. It's about matrimony.

Bad sexual education is about good-while-rendering. It's about a civil contract useful when the expected breakup arrives. It's about planning divorce. It's cynical.

Good sexual education is about human dignity, about what makes our bodies sacred, about respecting ourselves.

Bad sexual education is about how to put on a condom as to avoid chlamydia.

Bad sexual education is about statistics.

Good sexual education is about not judging the neighbor and custody of the own eyes.

Good sexual education leads to being a good person.

Bad sexual education leads to being a bad person.

Good sexual education is about highlighting that the most natural thing is for sex to be considered taboo; this is, something which is not irreverently talked about but something intimate, special.

Bad sexual education aims at eliminating the taboo character of sex, turning it into base, mean, and coarse. That's why sexual explicitness is everywhere attached to bad manners and lack of education.

Bad sexual education is about learning to use condoms.

Good sexual education about learning not to use porn.

Bad sexual education is about looking for pleasure.

Good sexual education is about running away from danger and pain.

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