What does it mean to be a pervert?

THEOTHER day, I started watching “Anne with an E” on Netflix. (I’m happy that I am little by little crossing shows off my checklist.) The second episode focuses on Anne in school. She happens to catch her female classmate and a male teacher alone in a stockroom getting a little too close to each other. Since Anne comes from an abusive Even the “forward-thinking” feminist household, she knows exactly what mothers looked at Anne with disgust, the two are up to. She innocently only because she simply told the tells her friends about it and talks truth. about the “pet rat” that every man It was eccentric conservatism has inside his pants. that led to so many young women She also mentions that the two being abused and kept ignorant of may be “making a baby”. their rights. When word of this reaches the Sad to say, however, even now in parents, the one that is blamed the 21st Century this way of thinking and deemed a pervert is Anne. She still exists. It may not be as bad as it is condemned for spreading dirty was before, but it negatively impacts rumors, instead of the teacher for the lives of many people. An example behaving inappropriately towards a of this is the issue of legalizing young student. abortion. Those who are against it

Anyone watching a scene like this view it as the murder of an unborn knows and can’t help but feel enraged child. Those who are for it view it as due to how stupid the people were. giving the mother a chance to make a choice, especially in cases of rape and unhealthy pregnancies.

I admit that in the beginning, I was one of those “abortion is the worst crime” kind of people. I would always use the cases of aborted fetuses found in toilets or trash cans as examples. Why would these women get pregnant, only to kill their baby and dump it somewhere?

Later on I realized that the reason these women were pushed to do this is because they never probably had access to birth control, or even education of any form about the implications of unprotected sex.

In “religious” countries, talk of sex and contraceptives is taboo.

When we are children, our private parts are looked to as dirty words. At a young age, we are pushed to develop a fear of knowledge of reproduction and this results in ignorance of our body when we are older.

Birth control pills are hard to come by. People who keep condoms are perceived as vulgar.

“Planning” a family is viewed as going against the Church. We aren’t taught that you have the right to choose to be celibate or not, and that you must take precautions when you choose the latter.

This fear of sex or anything related to it has brought about young people who don’t know how to take care of their reproductive health, or that they even SHOULD. It’s strange because during ancient times, talking about our bodies wasn’t considered dirty. We even have knowledge of certain herbs and apparatuses for birth control passed down by our ancestors.

Somewhere along the line an eccentric conservatism emerged. Hopefully, now that people are more open-minded, we will accept that our knowledge of reproductive health and family planning doesn’t make us perverts or sinners./

PN