Do we need masturbation classes?
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From a fine essay by David Aaronovitch on the dangers of the sexual ignorance fostered by zealots.
Today, we see sex as athletics, sex as marketing, and, courtesy of the cardinal and others, sex as a form of pathology, something to be avoided for fear of sin or disease. This is why our girls get pregnant too early, our boys get the clap, why they know so little about what they spend so much time wanting and fearing.
Rarely, though, do they hear us discuss sex as enjoyable, great, something positive. Sex aversion of one sort or another still rules. Perhaps it always will until, somewhere in between hockey and citizenship, there are masturbation classes.
