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Sex positive practices and philosophies
It seems there's a bit of interest around this, so some people thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread with a more focused discussion.
Later this week, I'll be getting certified to teach a sexuality education curriculum for 12-18 year olds. One of the reasons I want to do this is to really promote sex positive ideals in our youth. I've also found as a teacher of autistic kids, being sex positive can be very important and can manifest in some unexpected ways.
One odd way I work to keep a sex positive philosophy has to do with the teenaged boys I work with. Most of these boys are severely autistic and do not understand the difference between public and private. So when they get aroused, they will often just take it out and play with it whenever the fancy strikes. And believe me, the fancy strikes them pretty often, being teenaged boys and all!
It's important that the adults who work with them don't say "no" to them when they do this, because we don't want to teach them that these feelings are wrong. They just need to learn that it's not appropriate in public. So we will always deliberately say "not now" rather than "no" (along with some really focused work on "public" and "private". It's amazing how detailed it can get.)
So there's a little odd way I put sex positive philosophies into practice.
There's a lot more out there. So who wants to talk about sex positive practices, recognizing sex positive attitudes and how to promote more sex positive ideals in society?
It seems there's a bit of interest around this, so some people thought it might be a good idea to start a new thread with a more focused discussion.
Later this week, I'll be getting certified to teach a sexuality education curriculum for 12-18 year olds. One of the reasons I want to do this is to really promote sex positive ideals in our youth. I've also found as a teacher of autistic kids, being sex positive can be very important and can manifest in some unexpected ways.
One odd way I work to keep a sex positive philosophy has to do with the teenaged boys I work with. Most of these boys are severely autistic and do not understand the difference between public and private. So when they get aroused, they will often just take it out and play with it whenever the fancy strikes. And believe me, the fancy strikes them pretty often, being teenaged boys and all!
It's important that the adults who work with them don't say "no" to them when they do this, because we don't want to teach them that these feelings are wrong. They just need to learn that it's not appropriate in public. So we will always deliberately say "not now" rather than "no" (along with some really focused work on "public" and "private". It's amazing how detailed it can get.)
So there's a little odd way I put sex positive philosophies into practice.
There's a lot more out there. So who wants to talk about sex positive practices, recognizing sex positive attitudes and how to promote more sex positive ideals in society?