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It's a problem, though, that I've become so comfortable talking with children about sex, because most adults aren't, and we've got a pedophile-panicked culture that just seems to be adding to the great silence. One time my son was out to lunch with a friend and me, and the friend and I were talking about my work on intersex. My son stopped me to ask me to remind him what intersex is. I explained we were talking about people who have a different kind of sex anatomy than the average boy or the average girl. I explained that, for example, some of them have a short penis or a big clitoris. "Oh, right!" he answered. I reminded him of the names of a few friends of ours who are intersex, so he'd remember we were talking about real people. Suddenly I became aware that the tables all around us had gone silent. [...]<br>
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And I was off thinking: How funny that we can't bring ourselves to tell our children the most fundamental truth about sex, that most of the time we have sex, we have it for pleasure.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?' by Alice Dreger; psmag.com/what-if-we-admitted-to-children-that-sex-is-primarily-about-pleasure-9d3956c38ff5#; Pacific Standard; 16 May 2014</i>

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