free hand ...hold on...reach: Banning Picasso at the Lapin Agile, part 2
It is possible that I may never cease to be amazed at what some parents think they are sheltering their children from. I was at first wondering if the folks who oppose the relatively innocuous play in question understand what is readily available to their children via the Internet, cable TV or the current state of computer games. But when I stopped to think about it I realized that much of what these parents are trying to hide from their children I would have known about before I got through Jr. High School. As a graduate of La Grande High School in 1985 I can assure you that I had not learned any of it from the Internet or from Premium Cable movie channels. It all came from magazines smuggled out from under older brothers' and fathers' beds, romance novels, some of the more explicit western novels, or just stories we told each other. Our young imaginations we filled with stories of sex and gun play. Don't think for a second that we didn't know what would happen in real life if we ever got the chance to rescue a damsel in distress in our flights of fancy. We were already hip to the bedroom scene of such a fairytale scenario even if we wouldn't have the details figured out for years. (if ever)...
If you have been a parent of a child for the past 12 to 13 years and they are allowed to see an R-rated movie by accident or any other reason, and the child is scarred for life and damaged morally, then you have failed as a parent. The only children (young adults) who could see a play like this and have their morals compromised have already been trained to regard this kind of thing as smut and will not show up to it and will not participate in it. The only people this ban will impact are the ones who want to participate in it in some way.
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