![]() ![]() It would be her introduction to her own body. ![]() The Duke laughed at the “absurdity of how little mothers tell their daughters” and Daphne countered, saying “they tell us nothing.” This conversation ended with the Duke encouraging Daphne to touch herself “down there,” a concept that was both alien and unthinkable to her, but in which she undertook anyways. In Episode 3, when confronted with the reality of her impending marriage, Daphne Bridgerton in a conversation with the Duke of Hastings guessed that there are things that held a marriage together, other than friendship. Studies have shown the potential consequences of not educating young people about sex and sexuality: Young people have a higher risk of unintended pregnancy, contracting an STI, and more. “It is important that parents have this conversation with their children, lest they seek answers outside which could expose them to misinformation,” Dr. She also notes that with internet access and association with other kids, young people could pick up the exact kind of information parents are trying to shield them from. ![]() Lolade says, “Once a child starts approaching puberty, without proper education from people who are better equipped to have these conversations, they are going to start a mis-education that could prove fatal to their sexual lives in the future.” “Children are very impressionable and conversations around sex education should be had as soon as they can process the meanings,” Dr. Lolade Martins, PhD, a child psychologist, says that when parents and guardians leave their children’s sexual education to chance, it creates room for misinformation. Why did these older women avoid talking about sex while not avoiding the act itself? (That much is now obvious to me given the constantly increasing number of children that congregated at grandma’s farm every summer.) Watching this play out on screen, even though set in the Regency era, was triggering, but it highlighted just how important teaching young people about sex is.ĭr. Looking back now, I wonder what was so scandalous, so scintillating about sex and sexuality that shrouded it in secrecy. She sighed and that was the last we ever spoke of the issue. “You might use some other formula to get to the right answer.” I told grandma I was terrible at math and had gotten a D the previous term. “It is like a math equation,” grandma said at the time. If I was clueless, it was because I was never allowed to be anything else. That summer, I learned that it was possible to get babies from somewhere other than the baby factory, but that it was wrong. This pregnancy was against everything I had believed was true – that you only got babies from the baby factory when you were old and married. It was one of the last summer holidays we would have at grandma’s farm and I wondered why she slept so much, why she no longer climbed the guava tree, and, above all, why her stomach was as big as aunt’s had been when she went to the baby factory. Later, I had just turned 11 the year my 16-year-old cousin got pregnant. “You go to the factory when you’re all grown up and married and they give you one baby.” It seemed like a perfectly reasonable explanation to 8-year-old me. ![]() “Babies come from the baby factory,” my aunt said, smiling indulgently when I had asked how the baby had come to be there. I remember returning from school and finding an infant that had certainly not been there when I left that morning, and my aunt’s stomach not quite as big. When I was 8, my baby cousin was born in the upstairs bedroom. Like Eloise, I too for the longest time had no idea just how someone got pregnant, even though the better part of my childhood and teenage years were spent in a large family that was in a constant state of procreation. As I watched that scene, the girls’ confusion was so palpable, so understandable that it reached out across the screen. ![]()
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