This has long seemed like a contradiction to me: society believes in childhood innocence, and yet it also believes in complete sexual explicitness for adults. In fact, any kind of argument for modesty or restraint in fiction, television, music, etc. etc. is attacked as puritanism, prudery, and nay-saying.
Chidlren are somehow meant to travel around in bubbles of innocence which are entirely untouched by the sea of salaciousness around them.
Further, parents are somehow meant to be solely responsible for keeping these bubbles intact-- as though they could watch their children every single moment of every day.
It seems ludicrous to me. Should there really be such radical discontinuity between childhood and adulthood? Can we really have childhood innocence without also aspiring towards chastity and modesty in adults, and in their entertainments?
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