The sex paradox and playboy anomaly

It is unfair to hand over our children to the treacherous life ahead of them without proper education. In particular, they get their sex education from anyone anywhere and in most cases we fail them. Political games have shifted the focus to abuse of abortion, implying that stopping abortion will end teenage pregnancy.

Abortion is a consequence, not the source of the problem. Of course legalizing unconditional abortion will only make things worse. The point is not to lose sight of the cause by focusing on the consequences only.

Many social problems are controlled by shaping a child’s view in accordance to traditions that have worked over long intervals in the past. Unfortunately, traditions might have mutated to serve the purpose of a certain class of people. Most adults are literally blind with regard to the validity of a particular item of tradition. However, children see things more naturally until we turn them into volkens of Star Trek.

Sex education seems paradoxical due to inadequate volume of direct research in this area. Obviously we cannot show children how two adults perform intercourse and try to explain it to them. We also face the fact that without jumping into a pool one cannot learn to swim. Nevertheless, we have solved much harder problems. We can find a reasonable solution for sex education just as well. After all, opinions may not correspond to the findings of scientific research.

The research on this social topic requires the participation of scientists with different backgrounds and from different corners of the world. Freud is only one such example. We cannot apply the first reasonable guess to our children, and then apologies for ruining their lives. The research will in fact take several generations of scientists and needs continued worldwide support.

It took Tycho Brahe a lifetime of observations before Kepler could derive his laws and Newton would formulate them mathematically, and yet that was just the beginning. With regard to sex we seem to be content with Freud-like views and their interpretations for either acceptance or rejection of those views for inclusion in a college textbook, or a bestseller. Research in this domain is considerably more complex than the work of Jean Piaget because it involves the effects of background on a child’s perception and interpretation of educational presentations.

The lack of proper education leaves children defenseless against anomalies. A person buying a playboy magazine is paying the producer so he can enjoy the life of Tiberius Caesar on Isles of Capri, and thank the buyer for his donation with pictures of producer’s life filled with nothing but sex entertainment.

Perhaps we can educate our children to avoid spending their money on useless pictures and instead enjoy an ice cream with their friends. Religion does not seem to be the weapon of choice against the temptations of playboy-like anomalies. Scare tactics do not really work until Simba experiences the effects of our failure to protect him against the laughing hyenas.

Like other areas of our success, continued scientific research will help us here too. However, closing down playboy will not save our little girls. Perhaps we can move the burden of tax from the parents of those girls to their abusers. Education will not be effective when both parents have to hold multiple jobs just to feed their children and pay for their medical insurance.