How can you raise your family to be liberated in regards to nudity and sexuality and remain safe from the extreme attacks of the prudes? Even something as simple as having nude art around the house might be enough to throw people into a tantrum and call the authorities. How does a liberated family shield themselves from the normal culture? Do you compromise your freedoms for safety? Do you teach them how to answer those who ask about the family? Do you hide it when relatives come over? Or is it best to simply NOT and play it safe? This is one of my main concerns about my future and I do NOT want to start a family without much advice on this topic.
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Very great advice Professor.
Great question. I think I wrote an essay on that once. I'll look for it. The short answer is "plausible deniability." Though it might look to outsiders like state social workers are looking for people to accuse of child abuse, the reality is that in every single state child protective workers have far too many cases to look into than they can. They don't want new cases. The first and best protection is to be a white middle class family with a professional job. Unless their hands are forced, child protective workers do not ...DO NOT want to get involved with people like that. So....all you have to do is to be able to plausibly deny what some busybody accused you of doing. So in our case when our kids were growing up we never shut our bedroom door, even when we were having sex. We also had sex all over the house, but we never initiated sex when the kids were around. Thus if we had been called to task the answer was "Oh I'm sorry we will be more careful next time." Case closed.
clarifications: it's probably not necessary for me to worry about this now but I do. I want to do what's BEST for my future imaginary family and that in my mind doesn't always line up with the standard norms. I've always had a lot of fear of man and certainly am no revolutionary type eager to take risks.