Fury over 'fondle' book

[MikeH]

If I was to go on personal experience I'd say that girls who regularly air the orchid come a lot quicker/easier/more often than those that don't...

[Q Classic]

Maybe it's different for guys. My brother says he learned some time in his early teens.

yeah, i'd have to say so. it's kinda straightforward what a guy has to do.

[chequita guevara]

I'd say this is a great idea. It'll never happen over here though.

[Alinestra Covelia]

A few Sundays ago, Doonesbury ran a joke about masturbation. There was anticipated uproar and our editor even wrote an accompanying explanatory letter and authorized publishing two Doonesbury cartoons that day in an effort to mollify the furious masses.

Nobody wrote back, either complaining or commending.

My editor's never regained that lightness in his step since.

[MikeH]

The fact that some newspapers didn't run that in the US made the papers here. Bizarre.

[Japher]

Nothing wrong with the book or the message it sends

Everything wrong with parents who can't control what their 9 to 11 year olds read...

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Innocence is like youth. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Kids grow up fast enough already, why do we need to put even more pressure on them?

"No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in... and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of... preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not."
- Greg Egan, Distress

[Dr Strangelove]

Actually I think you'll find that self-fondling tends to be more common among pre-schoolers than grammer school aged kids. I don't really see the point of exposing kids at that age to that sort of activity. They've already passed through the usual age of "self-exploration", i.e., when very little kids poke and prod every part of their body that they can reach, yet at age nine the nervous system hasn't yet matured to the point where they would derive same sensual satisfaction that an adult would. In fact, my impression is that a kid at age nine may find the activity painful. So what's the point? Is it some sort of "Clockwork Orange" kind of experiment exploring the effects of giving kids negative sexual reinforcement in the hopes of abating teenage promiscuity? By Jove! I think the Brits are on to something!

[blackice]

Dr Strangelove the best answer yet You could be right....

[Alinestra Covelia]

My housemate Bing said he was jerking off and producing some sort of ejaculate way back when he was 7 years old.

Then again, he's 23 now and still hasn't gotten laid so maybe there's something to it after all.

[Drake Tungsten]

I think your housemate is full of ****, Allie, but that's just my opinion.

[notyoueither]

Ditto

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
My housemate Bing said he was jerking off and producing some sort of ejaculate way back when he was 7 years old.

Then again, he's 23 now and still hasn't gotten laid so maybe there's something to it after all.

In my humble medical opinion not unless he was a pretty sick puppy. True precocious puberty is not a benign condition and requires medical treatment. OTOH maybe what he really produced was pee. That's possible, and if so could be the source of his problem with girls. Many women get REALLY, REALLY turned off by the whole golden showers scene. Maybe you should take him aside and explain the difference to him.

[alva]

He should know the difference between urine and sperm by now though, no?

[Nubclear]

I must say...One would know the difference by his age It's not incredibly difficult to tell