“ Awake, arise now or forever be fallen” In his epic, Paradise Lost, Milton warned us of willful ignorance. But the tides of hysteria have taken hold of us. Like a gung-ho brain surgeon with an unsteady hand, the West today has daringly removed the idea of age-appropriate moral boundaries for children. Suddenly, we no longer need shame or conscience. Now this archaic Western idea has been transplanted with the absurd notion that adolescents should be sexualised. Such a task is not without dire consequences for those who dare awaken the beast of perversion.
Children’s innocence was once protected in the West, but now it seems our culture lies in the slumber of hubris, and the fringes of extremist LGBT activists are redefining our moral norms. The prophetic words of John Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost” ring true in the culture wars today. Recently, the writer Yumi Stymes released a book entitled “Welcome to Sex.” The book includes chapters that discuss and encourage masturbation, various sexual and gender identities, orgasms, and anal sex. It sounds harmless enough if it were aimed at adult readers, but it was aimed at 8–14-year-old children.
In her section on ‘The Lowdown on Anal Sex’ Stymes unabashedly proceeds to provide explicit ‘how to’ instructions about how adolescents can engage in the act of anal sex. If this weren’t enough, Stymes recently gave an interview with SBS. She stated she did “not care about the backlash” despite Big W rightfully pulling the book from its shelves. Yet her carefree attitude should come as no surprise; she was arrogant, self-righteous, and predictably indignant at any criticism of her book.
“I make no apologies for the book; I’m very proud of it.” Embarking on its own surgical expedition, the LGBT movement has attempted to re-write the cultural narrative of the West and take us back to “the state of nature.”
The narrative of the West used to be that after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, men and women would be afflicted with pain, death, and a feeling of shame. Genesis 3 states, “After Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, the eyes of both were opened.”
While we need not take this narrative literally, it has deep metaphorical importance. Despite suffering, pain, sin, and death, it is the task of the West to redeem the condition of humanity and create a better world. Shame made us modest and reminded us that some things transgress moral boundaries. Shame was an indicator of conscience, an alarm bell warning us of potential wrongdoing.
Before we decide whether something is right or wrong we are in tune with our conscience. Now our moral radars are perversely recalibrated.
This is exactly why figures like Stymes see no moral quandary about writing a ‘how to guide’ to adolescents about “anal sex”. And why is there a cultural preoccupation with indoctrinating innocent adolescents? It is because we have learned to be resentful toward innocence in our culture.
Figures like Stymes resent childhood innocence. The thirst for self-gratification is undying, and now the LGBT movement wants to sacrifice children’s innocence before the altar of carnal knowledge.
This is partly why anything and everything is perfectly acceptable sexually, no matter the age of the individual. Parents must speak out against this and show zero tolerance for such things. This means that parents must withstand the barrage of attempts to shame them for being against the sexualisation of their children.
It is ok to isolate your child from a world that accepts the sexualisation of adolescents; it is perfectly ok to want to raise your child as heterosexual and teach them about relationships; it is perfectly ok to discourage your child from sexually experimenting; and it is perfectly ok to discuss these things at an appropriate age. It’s also perfectly okay to discourage sex before marriage. It is never ok for ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ to lay claim to raising your child; that is your right as a parent, not theirs.
Would you accept a grown man in his 50’s bringing up the topic of ‘anal sex’ and’masturbation’ with your adolescent son or daughter in the name of’sexual education.’? Why, then, would you accept it from a 48-year-old self-professed moral crusader?
Stymes and individuals like her are a clear and present danger to Australian children. The danger lies in the desecration of our voice of conscience.
Not every impulse we have should be translated into speech and action. Parents must aggressively speak out in public forums, to child protection authorities, to their MP’s, to schools, and to the stores and publishers that allowed such literature to be produced. Books like this have no place in Australia. It’s one thing to write your own delusional narrative; it’s another to rewrite an entire cultural narrative.
There is a moral price to be paid for wilful ignorance, and Australia will pay it if books like this are allowed to be distributed. If society is allowed to go down this path unchallenged, it may, as Milton warned us, be too late to wake up. You only have your child for the first 18 years; the world has them for the rest of their lives.
