It was an analogy made on the television show, 'Law & Order: SVU' (Special Victims Unit). The plot of the episode was a 14 year old boy on trial for raping younger students at his middle school, ages 10-12, both girls and boys. His defense was the 'media' made him think that his victims enjoyed being raped, from the intense viewing of pornography he had access too.
Recently I noted two disturbing subjects regarding the high level misogyny in hip/hop, which really didn't exist twenty years ago in the genre and the normalizing of sexual assault in young women in middle/high school, so common that girls accept it.
“A young girl will see somebody being pushed against a locker and fondled inappropriately, or they are being touched inappropriately and they say: ‘Well that’s just the way it is,’” said Ms. Connelly, director of education at the Toronto District School Board.“Well folks, that’s not acceptable, but our young girls are treating it like it is acceptable and we have to address that.”
Sex education has to be more then learning about birth control and STDs, it should also be more then simply telling students 'it's a gift' that should be saved for marriage. We need to know how to behave, we need to learn and understand what is in our best interests long term and short term, so both men and women can make informed decisions.
Too much of our sexuality is on 'auto-pilot', absent of any context. The answer is that we need to be more aware of sex and all of it's repercussions, including the creation of children and our obligation to them, not to repress or ignore it. Take example television watching, there are shows with sexual/mature content, but some are in a context of a story line dealing with those repercussions of relationships and feelings, like 'Lost' and 'House'. On the other hand I could watch anything that immediately catches my eyes, such as train wrecks like Fox's Moment of Truth or the numerous of celebrity gossip shows.
As the defense attorney's argument goes, we show teenagers them a pool of water, tell then how fun it is, but never give them lessons on how to swim, basic first aid, and CPR. At best we give them a flotation device.


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