ACtually, if you'll read this thread, you'll see that few considers the rape of a boy by a woman in a position of power as an act of violence. Which isn't surprising, given the lack of enthusiasm for digging out the abusers who get young girls who end up in clinics knocked up.
This is what happens when you promote sex among children. You stop protecting them, and you end up with a jaded, degraded society in which anything goes and nobody cares.
Rome is a prime example.
One problem, what you consider "promoting" sex (though I don't know for sure just trying to get an angle) may or may not include education. Sexual education isn't promoting it, as a matter of fact if anything it will frighten more away from it (those disease slides are not pretty) or at the least make educate them enough to make better choices. However, our media does promote sex to children, Maury Povich is one of the biggest offenders by glamourizing and rewarding those young who sleep with a lot of other people. Many other shows do. One reason I like Jerry Springer is it shows these type of people for what they really are ... baffoons, instead of rewarding them in any way they are ridiculed on stage (it's quite funny to). Also look at all the comedies that have been coming to theaters lately ... almost every single one focuses on sex, most make being a virgin or non-sexual look bad, and the highest rating they get is PG-13. Those movies make millions and many parents are taking their kids to them or rent the DVD for the whole family, while good movies like Bedtime Stories, Wall-E, etc. fail when there is no sexual content and are rated G. So, just wondering if you agree here or not.
You are promoting sex among children when you tell them it's a normal thing, that they don't have to tell their parents, and that there are ways to hide the natural consequences of it, with the help of the schools and government.
You are promoting sex among children when you insist that it's "natural" for children to have sex, and there's no way to stop it, and we shouldn't try, and when it happens, we must "respect" the child (a.k.a. "protecting the predatory p.o.s. who got her pregnant) and not ask any questions about why she got pregnant, or who the hell is having sex with her.
You are promoting sex among children when the schools provide them with condoms.
Jerry Springer isn't showing real AMerica. His producers hunt down the most depraved, dysfunctional, lying assholes they can find...then pretend they are representative of conservative or even just blue collar americans. It's a shame you like it so much because it's providing you with a distorted view of what people really are like. Middle class and poverty-level Americans are mostly like me....with some education, well read, intelligent, discerning individuals who can hold their own in any setting among any group of people, and who raise decent hardworking children.
And if you look hard enough, you'll see those programs which are responsible for the sexualization of children come straight out of the liberal stronghold of the entertainment industry, the liberals darlings.
THe thing is, if it's okay to break up homes because a person's religion includes giving consent for underaged women to get married to older men...then it should be okay to raid abortion clinics that give abortions to girls and refuse to report who the fathers are, or even to ask......
In other words. It's okay for unmarried children to have sex, that's given a pass by the government. But it's NOT okay to get permission from your parents and be married if you're under 18.
The understanding is that it's okay for children to have anonymous sex, so long as they get an abortion. But if they dare to get married, they'd better get ready to have their homes raided. That sets kids up for exploitation.