“ Sex will always be an exciting mystery to children, they’ll always want to know about it. And they’ll learn about it, inevitably, from scary porn and all those barmy urban myths that circulate playgrounds. As a counter to that, shouldn’t responsible kids’ telly at least try to right the balance? Shouldn’t there be someone out there (apart from your boring parents and your boring teachers, who cares what they say) saying that sex is a natural, sometimes funny, sometimes wonderful thing, that decent, kind, nice people do with other decent, kind, nice people? Rather than a sleazy forbidden horror whispered about behind the bike shed. You can’t stop kids finding out about sex. You can at least make sure some of what they hear is sane and reasonable. ”
Steven Moffat (via tinysprout)
I love every word this man says.
(via rosalarian)
Moffat aside, whom I do generally quite like, this is just…. a really good quote. And I wish I had had more of these examples as a kid. And I think that kids will learn a lot about sex from popular culture so it’s important to have positive examples.
(Source: mr-owls, via knifeyutensil)
