I know this will come as a shock -- a shock! -- to some of you, but little kids have sexual curiosity. They explore. They play "doctor." And, gasp, they masturbate. In fact, nine students at a San Diego middle school have been suspended after other classmates reported that they were watching porn on their cell phones and masturbating.
Reportedly, this is an all-boys school. Since it's middle school, I guess the boys are around 11-13 years old. Besides the fact that kids are tech-savvy enough these days to stream porn on their phones, is there anything really shocking about this? Movies are chock full of scenes of boys around this age doing the deed with dad's well-worn Playboy stash.
I'm certainly not saying the boys shouldn't be suspended. (Read that again.) School is a time for learning -- and not about one's genitals. It's a time for math, English, science -- not for Jenna Jameson. And if, as the report says, several students raised their hands to report the activity but the teacher ignored them while continuing to read a book (maybe it was Fifty Shades of Grey?) then this is wrong. Obvs! I get that!
But this is natural behavior, y'all. I bet a few of you -- at least a few -- have found evidence of your precious offspring doing the solo mambo. My sincerest hope is that these kids don't get a thorough drubbing at home by their parents for what is natural activity. Do we really need these kids growing up with all kinds of emotional trauma around sexual activity? That leads to no good.
If I were the parents of these children, I would explain calmly but firmly that there is a time and a place for figuring out the pleasures of the body. And that time and place is NOT the classroom. Then I'd do some research on what books about sex to hand the curious tykes so they're getting their information from somewhere other than YouPorn. (I just did a search on "children's sex books" -- yikes!)
What would you say to your kid if he or she was caught masturbating in school?
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school is NO place for this type of behavior.
*sigh* We knew this was going to happen. We have become a world, no, a country, that is afraid of our own children. Kids run amok everywhere. But when people stand up to them and say, "this is unacceptable", THOSE people are trashed - on blogs like this one, in public, even brought up on charges. We sit here in judgement of restaurants who crack down and institute a "no children" policy - not because they "hate kids" but because kids' behavior is so appalling that those restaurants were likely losing business because of them.
And it's all because we're afraid to "damage" the precious "self-esteem" of these little darlings.
Whatever happened to self-esteem coming from within? Earning praise for a job well done after a lot of sweat equity? EARNING the right to say, "yeah, I did that"? Instead, we pat little Johnny on the head and say, "ok, whatever makes you feel good, honey, go ahead and do it."
And the result is that we have a pod of perverts sitting in a classroom, whacking off, and the teacher ignores it!!! She should have humiliated them right then and there. Shame them for the shameful behavior. And THEN suspended them. So they need therapy? GOOD. They don't belong masturbating in a PUBLIC classroom.
Mr. Oates- boys will be boys. Really?
So because they have a penis, we expect them to be little horndogs that can't control themselves? Males are somehow incapable of proper behavior?
Wow, I guess we should stop arresting men for raping women, because they're just men! They can't be expected to know right from wrong when their penis' get all swollen.
My 4 year old daughter already knows that touching herself is ONLY allowed when she is in her own bedroom by herself. I see nothing wrong with masturbation, in and of itself. But it is definitely a PRIVATE thing that should be done in a private setting. In my opinion, these "parents" have already failed their children in numerous ways. Not teaching them the proper time and place for self-pleasuring, allowing them to not only have a phone but one with internet access, both MAJOR fails in my book. I honestly don't have a problem with kids having their own phone, hell, my kid will probably have one in a few years (she's not even 5 yet) but you have to put parental locks and restrictions on the phone. But that's the problem, that would mean actually being a PARENT when all you want is to be your kids' buddy.