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Darkside
Mistress Evilynne speaks openly about
society’s issues with children knowing
about sex...
Think of the
children!
“Think of the children!” resounds their battle
cry.
What a loaded phrase. What a loaded weapon.
They whisper it when speaking to each other, they
shout it at the top of their lungs to the press who
print it black on white, again and again… think of
the children.
It seems that the general population sees all
deviations from a very restrictive sexual norm to be
akin to paedophilia. The country is indeed suffer-
ing from an epidemic of pedophilia, but that is one
specific issue which is as far removed from things
such as BDSM as murder is from playing cops and
robbers. The idea that we are out to hurt your
children is a preposterous one which is bandied
constantly because it always has a major impact
on an audience. It makes you look like the hero,
out to preserve the sweet innocence of the next
generation. This innocence is a complete illusion.
We bring up our children in a world of fantasy
where they grow up into vulnerable and naive
teens.
These same “innocent” children which you try
so hard to protect are constantly subjected to
the horrors which you watch on the news every
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evening, which is specifically designed to influence
your thought process in order to make you more
amenable to the stripping away of your liberties.
They are subjected to their parents drinking in front
of them, openly discussing how alcohol takes away
the pain. They are subjected to domestic violence,
which imprints in them the archetype of their un-
derstanding of human relationships.
And yet they worry about their children being
exposed to people undertaking in adult play in a
safe, sane and consensual manner. I say that the
world has gone topsy turvy. Children should be
taught about sexuality, at a rate that matches that
of their intellectual development. They are able to
understand these things much earlier that people
give them credit for. Society is trying so hard to
hide sex from children. The results are that when
faced with a sexual predator, they don’t under-
stand what is happening and are ill equipped to
fight back against grooming and threats. Also,
children always do come across adult sexuality,
but by chance, out of context, and with no tools to
help them understand and process what they have
seen.
Rather than hide the realities of adulthood from
our children, hadn’t we better educate them and