Jane Rule
Published: 1982Updated:
JANE RULE
"My own initiation came long before I was legally adult.
Though a number of males around my age offered to participate, a woman
ten years my senior was "responsible," at my invitation and encouragement.
The only fault I find with that part of my sexual education was the limit
her guilt and fear put on our pleasure, the heterosexual pressure even
she felt required to put on me. What she did "for my own good" caused both
of us pain. If I were to improve on that experience now, it would not be
to protect children from adult seduction but to make adults easier to seduce,
less burdened with fear or guilt, less defended by hypocrisy. ...
If we accepted sexual behaviour between children and
adults, we would be far more able to protect our children from abuse and
exploitation than we are now."
- ~ Jane Rule, lesbian feminist. "Teaching Sexuality"
- in Flaunting It, Vancouver, New Star Press, 1982.
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