How NOT to teach your kids about sex
 

Couple gets probation for "educational" sex

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Rhode Island woman who routinely had sex with her boyfriend in front of her 9-year-old daughter to teach her about sex was sentenced to three years' probation, authorities said Tuesday.

Rebecca Arnold, 37, and David Prata, 33, who received the same sentence this week, told investigators they thought the practice would help the child to learn, prosecutors said.

"Basically, and I'm tempted to say idiotically, they believed it was helpful to the girl, Ms. Arnold's daughter; they believed it was helpful to her development to see them engaging in various sex acts in front of her," said Mike Healey, spokesman for state attorney general Patrick Lynch.

The pair told investigators that they allowed the girl to watch their sexual romps but did not compel her to.

Rhode Island Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah Jeremiah Jr. allowed the couple from the city of Woonsocket to plead guilty and accept probation, instead of jail time, because he wanted to spare the girl the pain of a trial, local media said.

The girl mentioned the activity to her father while visiting him in Massachusetts and he reported the incident to authorities, Healey said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070321/...a_crime_sex_dc

What the hell goes through people's minds???

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Well ain't that just fucking great... :disgust

Please edit the name... Michael Jackson

Do you know that there are tribes where showing the schildren how sex looks is perfectly normal. Sometimes they gether children from tribe to watch some couples having sex. They say it is good education.

Yep, and because we don't do it this way, we no longer live in shacks in the desert or on trees in the jungle :disgust

wtf is wrong with people.... :Oh crap

I don't know, I'm kind of split on this issue. Realistically, the best way to teach children about the ACT of sex IS to show them sex, they say a picture's worth a thousand words. On the other hand, showing children sexual activity does nothing about education of the RISKS of sexual activity; it just looks like a lot of fun. So, ups and downs to both sides of the coin.

bery useful

I think there's nothing wrong with having sex in front of your children as long as they're not forced to watch?!

WTF is wrong with sex?

Nothing is wrong with sex, of course. But there are just some things you don't need to clutter up a 9 year olds mind with.

Nothing... but for a 9 year old to watch her mom and step dad get it on in front of her... thats wrong.

What ever happend to renting Pretty Woman to teach your kids about sex...:1orglaugh

Unfortunately in this case it wasn't a bullet. :disgust

I learned by watching people have sex on camera

Yes but in OUR tribes we don't do that.

A firend of mine teached her brother to kiss (she was kissing him) He was 10 and she was 18.
Interesting if she would have teached him sex the same way? But she didn't.

where do you live?

It would be interesing to know too. :disgust

If I was one of the children that Brad and Angelina adopted, I wouldn't mind them showing me :)

pretty crazy

That's crazy...it seems their encouraging the kid to have sex at an early age....

This is a tough one to call. On one hand, it is definitely outside the bounds of what most of us would call normal behavior. On the other, they weren't forcing her to watch, or making her participate.

I have to say it isn't something I would suggest people do, but I think the sentence was about right. Pretty much a slap up side the head to make them think about it. It wasn't too long ago that 12 years old was considered wife material, and in some communities in the US it still is. Can you say Mormons?

This of course spirals off into a whole argument about how we as a society send massively mixed signals with programs to teach them not to have sex until they are married, counterpoised against Bratz dolls for little kids that are dressed like street hookers, and fashion styles that are highly sexual. I mean what 13 year old really should be wearing low rise pants with thong underwear showing?

Our society is just messed up in the sexuality department.

It takes a village to raise a prostitute.....

Yes, I've heard of that. Some tribes actually have the father fuck their daughters the night before she has her fist night with her husband to 'show her'.

(oh did I also mentionned that the same tribes rip off these women clitoris in order for them to never experience orgasm?)

wow, that is insane. i had heard of the removal of the clitoris, but never heard of the father taking the daughter's virginity. :(

:thumbsup

hopefully this isn't one of those cases where the 'friend' is really the person talking

Hmmmm pretty weird

people are going nuts now adays

people have always been nuts but these days we just hear about it more

:( That is just stupid. A 9 yr old girl should be playing with barbie dolls and not thinking about what her mother looks like when step daddy is banging her. BAD IDEA!:Oh crap

that is messed up

Agree:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :thumbsup :1orglaugh

This is just absolutely wrong, I'm glad that these two got punished :disgust

crazy stories

I remember my mom telling me off for having Barbie and Ken live together without being married. I used to think she was super harsh but these says sometimes I am glad they were more like that and less like the horror stories you hear in articles like this.

Exactly...9 yrs old. That is down right scary.

That just isn't close to normal behaviour

No you are right. we live in steel structures were we breathe recycled air, eat fast food, and watch tv, until we drool, and then go out and purchase shit that we dont need, because they told us on TV that we need it, and that no kitchen or house should be without it.


Much better way to live.

There are some crazy people in this world! We wonder why kids are so messed up?? Hello - look at the parents!

I dunno...

Not exactly what I'd do, but, frankly - I don't think there's really anything really wrong with it, either. ... except that maybe the father wasn't in the loop on the whole thing.

I think that it's a display of our society's sexual insecurities that leads us to say parents don't have the right to instruct in such a manner... and only goes to make "sex" a continuing taboo for future generations.

I would think in a truly enlightened society, it'd be fine for parents to say "and this is how we brought you into the world, kiddo" in an effort to make the act of sex appear perfectly normal, and a part of everyday life.

well, that kid is screwed up for life now...

Did they serve snacks? Cause that makes all the difference.

:Oh crap :Oh crap

I would have trouble getting turned on knowing my child was watching.

That sort of happened to a girl I fucked around with in high school. Her mom taught her how to suck dick when she was about 13 by having her practice on her boyfriend at the time. (the moms boyfriend) The girl never said anything, and nobody ever got in trouble, but man....could she suck a dick! :love2suck

Yeah, I hear ya... I'm sure I'd feel the same way.

The moment the parents are actually getting "turned on" by their kid watching, I do think a line has been crossed.

And I'll also agree that most people probably can't be trusted to make the distinction of where education for the child ends, and the need for therapy later in life begins... so maybe it's for the best that we don't seem to be allowing for it.

But, generally, I think marking it as taboo is almost as backwards as those that might get off on it.