It also teaches kids that there is such a thing as an unforgivable action, IE that it is not just their right to, but bordering on their duty to set and enforce boundaries that they have the right to cut people out of their lives for breaching.

There is nothing conservatives fear more in this world than the idea of something that can permanently earn them the judgement and condemnation of others. To be judged by the content of their character, and that alone.

And that it isn’t the fault of the one in a position of power when they rape, but the naive one.

And not just for sexual assault, sexual shame is openly praticed as a mind control mechanism

You got that right.

You should be 18 or older to attend any religious event. Our youth have been indoctrinated long enough.

There are areligious people who are nevertheless puritanical.

I have a reaallly stupid niece-in-law who prefers to keep her daughter from hanging out with her little cousin (my grand-daughter) because my daughter taught her own daughter that it’s called a vagina and not a tee-tee or what-ever-the-fuck the niece-in-law insists on calling it. She literally does not want her daughter exposed to the word ‘vagina’. I think the world of my nephew, but his wife can kick rocks…

I said something similar on r/politics on Reddit and they banned me for homophobia. I was like WTF?

And that, indeed, is the purpose.

I also have a suspension they don’t want the kids able to identify the inappropriate sexual abuse they are committing on the kids, startling how often these uptight cunts end up being pedos.

I think they fear sex because it involves a certain cutting lose and abandonment of yourself. When you’re accustomed to a simple and rigid structure based on simple rules, this freedom can be experienced as a pretty deep and fundamentally frightening discomfort.

When your whole life is spent feeling so tight and wound up because you’re basically walking a clearly black-and-white tightrope, this freedom probably feels straight up Satanic to some of them.

Remember, religious folks do not hold rationality as the highest measure of something, and you probably wouldn’t either if you hadn’t been trained in the skill. It has its uses, but there’s much more important measures in their world. Life is not supposed to make complete sense to them, ever. This is why God works so often in “mysterious ways” and remains a father figure to be heeded and honored, moreso than a subject to be considered or pondered fairly.

edit: Just occured to me, but it’s akin to an ex-con who gets out of prison but has to deal with being institutionalized, where they became accustomed to that simple, rigid life and don’t remember how to live in the regular world. Now, they were once free men. How much harder would it have been had they been born into that simple, rigid institution?

They’re all Shawshank Redemptioned. Like Brooks. Like Morgan Freeman was probably gonna be, if not for his friend.

Veterans experience something like this as well, when they try to retire from the army and come home from war. They often struggle to adapt back into our extreme levels of freedom and nonchalance.

Idk, where I’m from, sex ed is minimal and abstinence only, parents can still pull kids out of it and the bulk of parents that do had their first child before age sixteen.

I imagine there’s also an aspect of instilling a culture of shame around something that constitutes as a basic human need. That way people will invariably have at least one basic “temptation” to crawl into church to plead forgiveness over before seeking deeper religious indoctrination.

don’t forget that people who leave the church don’t tithe

I genuinely believe that all the tabooisation around sex is a holdover from the days where birth control wasn’t readily available.

There was an economic incentive for People Who Own Stuff to control procreation, because this allows them to control who inherits their stuff.

There was a personal incentive for most people to control procreation to prevent their children of making A Mistake™ by getting stuck with The Wrong Person™.

Where there’s incentives, they’ll wind up being followed. Story as old as time.

Cloaking all that in religion is just window dressing so one doesn’t have to admit their true reasoning, but a purely secular pre-contraception society would also have tried to regulate sex.

You also turn off the lights and shut the curtains, lest you see something!

You forgot /s? I hope?

Banned for homophobia.

Bingo! This is why Republicans hate all education, because it makes harder for them to be manipulated.

These institutions are pure evil and must be dismantled

I think it’s the other way around, they want their teens to be forced to give birth…

As one senator(?) put it: it’s a beautiful thing when a 12 year old is married and gets pregnant.