![]() As Fissell explains, the book was, in fact, neither a masterpiece nor authored by Aristotle. For example, historian Mary Fissell has collected some fascinating stories about eighteenth-century children sneaking a peek at an early modern mega-bestseller, Aristotle’s Masterpiece. Neither is the phenomenon of children looking to racy media to supplement the sex ed they may or may not have gotten from their parents and schools. ![]() What does this mean for how my children will learn about sex? Is that the mental model I want them to bring into their relationships?Īs a historian, I know that pornography is nothing new. Internet porn is ubiquitous, and so easy to find, most of us have found it at least a couple of times even when we weren’t looking for it. I hadn’t thought about it yet, because my kids are a bit younger, but he’s right. Instead, I had to lecture him about internet porn.” ![]() My son knew the basics from sex ed class at school, and didn’t want to talk with me about it. “It’s not like the old days, when you’d tell your kid about the mechanics of it, and protection, that kind of thing. A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had to focus on the internet instead of relationships. ![]()
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