No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

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No: HPFGUIDX 83383

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
wrote:
> >  "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki" <przepla at i...> wrote:
> >You missed two other examples: the pair caught by Snape in the 
bushes 
> > during Yule Ball, and Patil's horror when she realised that 
Crouch/Moody 
> > can see through clothes ("Nice socks, Potter!").
> > 
> > But I don't think, that Hogwarts is "awfully innocent". For 15 
years 
> > old, sex in count-legs-and-divide-by-two sense is quite remote. I 
mean, 
> > for females much more important is all that romantic nonsense: 
hugging, 
> > holding hands, sharing emotions etc. As for boys, most of them at 
this 
> > age are still not sure what the heck is happening with them.
> 
> Arya:
> This a sterostype where girls are good and boys are horny at best, 
if that 
> is, if they manage to figure out what they want.  I think I might 
offer my own 
> testimonial that girls, even at the ages of 15 thru 17, do indeed 
want and think 
> about sex and *gasp* are doing it. Divide the legs, and way more 
than that.  
> And I do in fact speak of my own personal experience when I was in 
high 
> school between 1990-1994.  
> 
> Taryn:
> I'll speak up as someone currently 16, female, and in high school 
and agree. Girls are just as hormonal as guys, but it does seem more 
common for girls to be able to hide it a bit better. And maybe have a 
bit more self-restraint. :P However, most of the girls I know /do/ 
love the fuzzily romantic gestures, too.
> 
> ----------
> Taryn : http://taryn.shirataki.net
> 
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Art:

Ancient Druidic practices placed male and female candidates in 
separate schools. This was done prior to the influence of 
Roman/Judeo/Xtian culture and was done due to the following 
reasoning. Males were imbued with power, release of said power (read 
into it what you will) lessens their power, whereas, women are polar 
opposites. I'm suprised there is so much similarity in Ying/Yang 
theology in ancient Druid/Celtic theology, but the world may not have 
been so large before the Italian conquests of 150 BC and the theories 
could have co-mingled. Getting back to how this is applied to life at 
Hogwarts (and possibly, why so many of the instructors are male and 
single) is the "Merlin" school of thought (remember, Merlin was the 
epitomy of Druidic wizard, ergo, celibate and singular.) Note: I 
implied both as separate entities. Druids do not congregate in their 
training, prefering a single mentor/student relationship until the 
apprentice reached an age of maturity where they embark on 
a "journeyman" phase where they learn other tasks and the workings of 
the world around them. By the time they are old enough to take on 
apprentices (if they chose) they have lived apart (singular) from the 
workings of a religious organization. 

It  reminds me of the Star Wars jedi in a way... (hmmm... I AM a 
geek...)

To wrap this up, perhaps the skirting of the sex issue is a bow to 
the roots of wizarding, OR just perhaps it is because ...

it is a series of books written for children.

Art.