Catholic schools used to teach about sexuality with subtlety. The young absorbed inklings of the splendor of purpose revealed in the facts of botanical construction. Moral lessons would come later. They could wait. Now, the sexual ambiguity of a Gingerbread Person grooms the child for lessons in the “social construction” of innate categories of male and female. A tacky graphic, it presents sexuality as a colorful blank slate on which youngsters can project whatever subjective imaginings are fed to them.
Sex education: then and now
Maureen Mullarkey
Monday, August 5, 2024
Catholic schools used to teach about sexuality with subtlety. The young absorbed inklings of the splendor of purpose revealed in the facts of botanical construction. Moral lessons would come later. They could wait. Now, the sexual ambiguity of a Gingerbread Person grooms the child for lessons in the “social construction” of innate categories of male and female. A tacky graphic, it presents sexuality as a colorful blank slate on which youngsters can project whatever subjective imaginings are fed to them.