Back in the day, we all tittered our way through sex ed, but at least it was just the basic, biological facts of human anatomy and reproduction (and how to prevent the latter until so desired) and how not to catch what was euphemistically dubbed a ‘social disease’.
Today’s ‘sex education’ is not the sex ed of your school days. Nowadays, it’s more like state-sponsored grooming than education. Everything from how to write sex personals to step-by-step guides to buttsex.
The groomer lobby, though, persist in trying to fool us that nothing’s changed, and anyone who objects is just some kind of strait-jacketed wowser.
A regional West Australian council has rejected calls from a conservative group to remove and restrict sex education books from its public library […]
The motion was for the City of Albany to remove or only allow teens over 16 to access Welcome to Sex and to remove Sex: A Book for Teens until assessed by the Australian Classification Board.
So, wait – they’re stocking books that haven’t even been classified?
Welcome to Sex, it might be pointed out, was withdrawn by large retailers after complaints from parents. Even the NZ Herald can’t report on the book without a warning to readers regarding its content. Call me weird, but if a book requires a warning for the few adults still buying the Ferald, then how is it appropriate for pre-teen kids? Do eight-year-olds really need to be taught graphically how to go about ‘scissoring’?
One commenter on Facebook said she was a mum with an open mind, but thought the book was too much.
She said the target audience wasn’t “even at the age of consent”, and while she normally agreed that being informed was good, she believed the book bordered on “grooming”.
Another commenter said it was “totally disgusting and disturbing” and was not appropriate for children.
Also note:
Keeping Children Safe Albany group leader and former One Nation and Involuntary Medication Objectors Party candidate Michelle Kinsella said the books crossed the line from sexual education to “sex guides”.
As they will, though, the councillors – at least one of whom is a vocal supporter of the ‘LGBTQI+’ lobby – hid behind bureaucracy.
The majority of councillors rejected the claims following recommendations from city executives […]
Other motions from a public meeting last month were also rejected, including a proposal for council to mandate working with children checks on the grounds it was outside local government jurisdiction.
The political agenda of the supporters of the books is obvious from such statements as the following:
President of the Australian Library and Information Association, Jane Cowell, said there was a growing number of campaigns to have books on sex education, as well as books with an LGBTQIA+ focus, restricted or removed from libraries and booksellers.
“I do see the common theme across the country, it is a playbook that is being taken from America,” Ms Cowell said.
Firstly: well, so what? This is a particularly cheap jibe which says more about the political biases of Ms Cowell than anything else.
Secondly: Cowell is a vocal supporter of such ideologies as Drag Queen Story Hour (which originated in America), ‘social justice’ (also an American playbook) and the ‘UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (ditto). Her own political playbook is also quite clearly taken from America.
What does that say about her, then?
It’s also worth nothing that Cowell is, far from a vigorous defender of free speech, vocally in favour of censorship. In a 2020 presentation, she stated openly that ‘my view is that we should choose social justice over freedom of speech’.
So, she supports burning books, metaphorically, when it suits her political prejudices – but grooming guides are just fine.
