Filipinas, August 1st, 2004
Let's talk about sex. How many of you parents out there have not/would not/cannot utter those words to your children? I'm guessing most of you have your hands up right now, just like me. In the area of openness, which, if you believe parenting books, is one of the standards by which good parenting is measured, Filipino parents like us would fail miserably. It doesn't take much to understand why sexual queasiness is so ingrained in us. There's the Catholic church for one. We grew up under its puritanical shadow, constantly told that sex and sin are synonymous, except in the only acceptable in...
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