But then when I think back to myself, at 13-ish, looking through someone’s stash of Playboys at a friend’s house, I am not so sure about how it would work in practice. This seemed very wise and elegant to me as a child-rearing philosophy.
One shouldn’t view this discovery as an event in itself, but more a part of the dialogue that has been going on for years about sex, body image, and all of that. She pointed out very sanely and sensibly that this isolated moment should be part of an ongoing, larger conversation with your child. What should you do in this garden-variety situation? The most sensible thing I have ever heard on this topic came from the internet scholar Danah Boyd.
