In school my son was shown a video of a man sexually attracted to balloons

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Name changed for this as it could be pretty outing.

Apparently it was a YouTube video, and the idea of the class was to teach them about feelings?! WTAF. AIBU to think that there are a gazillion other more appropriate ways to teach 12 year old about feelings than watching a man get into bed with balloons and tell people it arouses him?

Obviously I don't know exactly what they watched but it all seems a bit weird to me. I did clarify that the teacher showed them this and he said yes. It was part of the class.

It just seems a bit odd

@TinklyLittleLaugh
Not my thing. But i imagine it’s nice and tight for the man I believe and will make the person on the receiving end orgasm easier.

Well I so focussed on the wrong part of that video.... they think 62-8=40???

Hahaha!

You know. A lot of "standard" behaviours now like hairless genitals, anal or blow jobs were all once considered well outside the norm and a bit kinky once

And are hairless genitals, anal sex and blow jobs standard elements of the school curriculum?

OP there’s got to be some misunderstanding here
And I don’t just mean the guy loving balloons!

I hope you will update us...

Excellent responses.

I'd hope they'd be covered at some point @colourlessgreenidea. Not at 12 though, and from a "these things are choices that you can make, but should not feel obliged to submit to" sort of way, with integrated discussion on the porn industry and consent.

I watched a documentary yesterday about people who find buildings sexually attractive. One woman was married to the Eiffel Tower.

There was one woman who was in a relationship with the church building of which she was a congregation member, and she was in love with the church organ (no pun intended...) She had been cast out by the previous minister, the new minister was really supportive and welcomed her. It was really moving.

It's weird but it's so harmless.

Was the man Pennywise?

@Swellerellamoo I like the suggestion but they may suggest I'm blowing it up out of all proportion!!

@RosaWaiting oh I will do!!!

How could this be outing ?

You know. A lot of "standard" behaviours now like hairless genitals, anal or blow jobs were all once considered well outside the norm and a bit kinky once

and do you know the damage that is happening to young girls because of normalising anal?

Hairless genitals are not "the norm". It is a porn driven standard that bizarrely has become an expectation amongst younger men that in turn has resulted in younger women waxing everything off to fit in.

There are plenty of problems with no hair at all including a increase risk in UTI .

It's like fake breasts. The rise in Page 3 style implants is insane when you think about what it involves in terms of body trauma and risk. Porn driven again.

Fine if that's an adult individual's genuine free choice but in many cases particularly with younger women hairless genitals and consenting to anal is not a free choice at all. It's more perception of peer pressure "if I don't do it, Sharon will" or "if I don't do it, he'll tell everyone in my class and Tracey will say I'm weird."

I’d feel pretty deflated if I were you.

I’d have to ask the question “Why?” of the school, but whatever their response it will be too little, too latex.

Shaving genitals has been going on for millennia - can't put that one down exclusively to porn

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Oh look, this rather fucking creepy fetishist agenda is in schools already. Nothing to see here, nothing at all, move along...

I'd have been absolutely furious. There is no reason whatsoever to teach children about fetishes, no matter how innocuous."
Agree. A slightly ludicrous fetish will have been picked so anyone complaining can be laughed at. Sinister.

😂😂😂😂😂 at thinking about sexy balloons.

@SFCA I noticed that too!

Anyone else want to club together and buy julius’ poor wife a porcupine to set free in the house?

*I’d feel pretty deflated if I were you.

I’d have to ask the question “Why?” of the school, but whatever their response it will be too little, too latex.*

Shaving genitals has been going on for millennia - can't put that one down exclusively to porn

Yes you can. It's not the fact of it, it's normalising of it not the fact of it. Twenty years ago it wasn't expected by young men. Now it is. It's become an expected standard.

If this has actually been shown in a school to 12 year olds I think it’s a shame it’s just being treated as a bit of a laugh on here, would people be laughing if it was latex blow up sex dolls that the man had “feelings” for and was being shown to children?

I agree Stealth if this has happened it is really sinister.

I'd hope they'd be covered at some point @colourlessgreenidea. Not at 12 though, and from a "these things are choices that you can make, but should not feel obliged to submit to" sort of way, with integrated discussion on the porn industry and consent.

And I’d hope that no school ever discusses ‘hairless genitals’ with my daughters in the context of ‘standard behaviour’ or ‘norms’, which BusyBarbara alluded to in the post that I was responding to.

It'll blow up if you complain to the school.

I rang the school. They have no idea and want me to find out which teacher and which lesson. This means I have to bring the subject up again and it's annoyed me as I don't want to make a fuss about it. Bloody school. They are going to ask his form tutor if she has any idea about it though.