Religiosity of Capitalism

You’ve got a bit of a wrong impression of the past, Jonty. The idea that children have no sexuality is brand new, emerging only in the mid-1990s. Any time before that, it was always assumed kids were curious about sex. Before the Victorian Era, almost all families (except the ultra rich) lived in common rooms. They slept, and fucked and masturbated, right next to their family. There was no mystery of sex, no ability for anyone to make anyone else ashamed of their sexuality by making them feel alone in being a sexual human being. Nude statues lined streets, nude paintings were everywhere, there were penis-shaped door-knockers and sex and the human form pervaded all design. It wasn’t until the Victorians showed up and threw everyone into private bedrooms and started railing on about denying the flesh that sex became in any way associated with a “loss of innocence”. At that point, most people started their families at 13 or 14 or so. Children were raised to be mature enough to handle this at that age. But, companies had a different idea. They needed more educated workers. They no longer had much need for an uneducated 13yo. They couldn’t provide him with a salary sufficient to raise a family. So the poor, for economic reasons primarily, invented the idea of “adolescence” and extended education and sought to suppress their sexuality. They had no reliable birth control at the time, so abstinence was really the only option. All of our sexual policies are outgrowths of that idea and refinements of it. The purpose behind it has been lost and only the mindless dogma remains. Now we have birth control, and we can see the tremendous psychological damage it does to human beings to be taught through childhood and adolescence that sexuality isn’t normal and good… but we’re still too attached to the dogma.