No Sex, Please, We're British

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 83425

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grannybat84112" 
<grannybat at h...> wrote:

>> Tacky as that last line may sound--I'm really not interested in 
who's  bedding whom, how often they're 'doing it,' and how varied 
their  tastes may be. Really. I'm interested in what kind of 
social/ethical  preparation Magicals give their children in regard 
to The Big Life Issues, and whether the apparent lack of formal 
instruction strays that far from the norms of British Muggle 
society. <<

I think the great divide is before and after the "sexual revolution",
 
and the introduction of  The Pill, though judging by the pregnancy 
statistics I think that there was probably as much sexual activity 
going on among teens before as after...only people wouldn't 
admit to it unless they "got caught". 

But if ethics were  to be taught at Hogwarts, they would be the 
ethics of a society that enslaves its domestic workers, turns its 
criminals over to soul-sucking fiends, casually obliterates the 
memories of hapless Muggles and publicly excoriates teenage 
girls who have more than one boyfriend at a time. I can't blame 
Dumbledore for not holding ethics classes under those 
circumstances.

I think Rowling's purpose is not to say, "real life society should 
be like this," but to get us to ask ourselves in what ways  it 
already is.

Pippin