As a parent of two kids who won’t be getting their sex ed (in school, at least) for a good few years, I fully approve of this list - these are, in fact, ways that people express their sexual feelings. It’s not a list of the ways that everybody SHOULD express their sexual feelings - everybody is different, obviously.
Pretending like 13 year-olds have never heard of anal sex, and that this list is going to cause them to go out and try it out of the blue? That’s just silly talk. 13 year-olds know what anal sex is. If they haven’t seen it in the abundant, freely available porn on the internet, they have a friend who has, and that friend has described it in intricate detail. And that’s something that I think is more problematic than teaching them sex ed in school - somebody needs to be teaching them that porn sex does not equal real world sex. Yes, some people do enjoy many of the things you see in porn films, but the typical, woman-degrading porn that is so prevalent these days is not exactly what you want a generation of children growing up to think is normal, everyday sex. And when my two kids reach an age where I think it’s appropriate to teach them about that, I fully intend to have that conversation with them. Pretending like it doesn’t exist and that they’ll never be exposed to it is just going to make the problem worse.
