Excellent cultural analysis

You're right; society feels a need to preserve the idea of sexual innocence in children. Interestingly, in the Victorian age, children were seen as more sexual than they are seen today. Children who had sex with adults were often seen as the instigators. Adolescent girls were frequently married to older men (in their late twenties or thirties). But as someone on this board pointed out, the decision to marry may have been made by the girls' parents.

I have witnessed parents getting visibly upset when someone (it wasn't me) accidentally said the word "sex" in the presence of their children. It seems as though these parents are trying to atone for their own lusts by artificially shielding their offspring from any mention of sex.

President Obama is right in supporting sex education for kindergartners. His reasoning is that this knowledge will help them to avoid "sex offenders." But I think this early sex education for children is good for a different reason. Society might see these children as being "capable" of sexual agency, and would thus be closer to giving children the freedoms we advocate.

If these antis think society needs "purification," why don't they lead by example and not impose on children in this way? It is extremely hypocritical in my opinion to be promiscuous and then turn around in horror at the thought of a man enjoying the company of children. This problem seems not to be exclusively sexual. Steve Wilkos threatened Jack McClellan with violence when Jack admitted hugging children in public. Why does society strongly disapprove of this behavior? And how can we change this view?