What no teenager appreciates,
because the adults they depend on
rarely have the means to explain it,
is that every society has it's predators
and every society in history is sexual.
Modern societies like their talk of sex
to be clean and safe to share,
in their modernity they play down
notions of risk, to up the sense of safety
whilst denying bad things happen
with their partial explanations.
What parents deny is how much
youths are attractive to predators,
and all the more attractive for their
not knowing how attractive they are,
whether the predator is their employer
or that 'family friend' they see from afar.
However old I get I hope I understand
what 'virginity' should be, operationally.
'Being a virgin' never meant not knowing
what sex was, it meant knowing enough
about sex, along with working definitions
of what money and power are,
to resist being corrupted by them.
We have to know what corruption is
to be able to resist being corrupted.
Nobody should argue otherwise.
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