Liberal indoctrination

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Actually, I know two gay guys from Ashland, but the one I only see at softball. The other I'll see tonight at volleyball. If I remember, I'll give you a full report.

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I just got to thinking about my comment regarding Mayberry not existing. The friend who was molested by older neighborhood boys grew up not in the big city, but Adams County. And this is not recent, as the guy is in his upper 40's. He comes from a kinder, gentler - more innocent - era.

As someone who grew up in a sheltered, wholesome life, I'm still amazed at people's stories of their first experience. A lot of them had their first experience before high school. Sometimes it was with friends at sleepovers. Sometimes it was a cousin or not-so-distant relative.

Point being that we tend to think of high school as the beginning of sex when in fact the interest - the threat - comes earlier.

My thought is that those in rural areas - like Ashland - are probably in more need of education than those in urban areas, because "rural" is in a lot of cases mistakenly equated with "wholesome" and "innocent."

<font color="#a52a2a" size="1">[ November 30, 2004 01:10 PM: Message edited by: reason ]</font>

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And since I'm on the topic of the early age at which children have their first sexual experience, the guy I worked out with for a year and a half liked to tell the story of how he and a couple buddies took turns having sex with a slightly older neighborhood girl.

The boys were in the sixth grade.

And this wasn't some hard core inner city school. They went to Catholic school. And the neighborhood is one of Northern Kentucky's nicer ones.

I don't have children, but it seems to me that if I were raising them, I'd have them understand some fairly adult stuff by the time they reached the sixth grade. I'd rather have them learn it from me - or even a school - than out on the street, or worse yet from experience.

I'm guessing that most kids learn most of what they know about sex from other kids. This is so wrong.

I'm not convinced that what Ashland is doing is all that wrong, even without knowing all the details.

[travelinman]

Originally posted by reason:
I should point out that gae is always trying to bring down the fags. She ran her fag neighbor off to Vermont. Now she's against teaching nonviolence toward fags in schools.

Good job, gae.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was me that ran him off. Not because he liked penises, but because he was a fucking socialist.

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Originally posted by travelinman:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by reason:
I should point out that gae is always trying to bring down the fags. She ran her fag neighbor off to Vermont. Now she's against teaching nonviolence toward fags in schools.

Good job, gae.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It was me that ran him off. Not because he liked penises, but because he was a fucking socialist.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, I figured as much. gae was your accomplice.