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[TW: SA] I keep seeing threads about how children are innocent and shouldn& #39;t be taught about sex and consent, so I& #39;m going to share about what happens when you DON& #39;T teach a child those things, because my parents didn& #39;t.
Trigger warnings for sexual assault.
Trigger warnings for sexual assault.
[TW: SA] First, what am I responding to? Tweets like this. "Let children be children...Why do they have to be taught all this?"
![[TW: SA] First, what am I responding to? Tweets like this. "Let children be children...Why do they have to be taught all this?"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek2xc2xW0AM_5Df.jpg "[TW: SA] First, what am I responding to? Tweets like this. \"Let children be children...Why do they have to be taught all this?\"")
[TW: SA] My parents managed that magical fantasy of a Totally Innocent Child. I didn& #39;t have older siblings to teach me things. I didn& #39;t have sex ed in school. (Private schools and homeschool.) I went to college not knowing what a penis looked like or what sex was.
[TW: SA] I was every bit as innocent and "childlike" as the evangelical church likes its girls to be. And what happened was that predators looked at me and fucking *salivated*. 
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[TW: SA] In my first six months of adulthood, I was sexually assaulted multiple times, choked unconscious with a rope, tricked into consuming unsafe substances, and yes, raped.
