“ As a result, cross-generational sex was common at Oneida; much of it would today be considered statutory rape, or worse.”

The world we grow up is the only one we know first-hand, so we naturally think it’s normal. A critical thinker examines the contemporary world through the lens of history, though, and this story of the Oneidas, along with many other examples (ancient Greece, ancient Rome, just for a couple easy examples), leads to the suspicion that the world we live in now is anything but normal in regard to sexual practices … and may even be highly perverted.

If, as many claim to believe, sex is natural and healthy, why do we hide it from our children? Why do parents only fuck behind closed doors or, better yet, while the kids are away from home? Why don’t parents show their kids how they masturbate and encourage them to do the same? Sex, being the only way our species gets propagated, is surely the most important life skill kids need to learn, so why do we teach it only in classrooms using flip-charts and cucumbers? Isn’t something seriously wrong with this picture?

We like to think we are sexually liberated, but are we really? A slave who was allowed to make trips to town off the plantation could consider himself liberated if he chose such a limited yardstick for the measurement, but from our perspective we would see him as seriously deluded. When so many historical sexual practices are not only taboo now but can lead to prison for those who dare to engage in them, what yardstick can we credibly use to justify calling ourselves “liberated”?

It is said that children who are the victims of “childhood sexual abuse” often grow up to be “abusers” themselves. If that’s true, it applies equally to all forms of abuse, including our current, socially accepted abuse wherein children are denied natural, parentally-encouraged exploration into the magical world at the conjunction of their thighs.