This documentary is worrying because of how much it has to take into account low levels of thinking and high levels of emotional responses. The classroom scene of privileged students would contrast with privileged classrooms of fifty years ago in the liveliness and keenness of the students and the ability to express themselves clearly and thoughtfully. I thought the approach to sexual behaviour was muddled, quite apart from disagreeing with some of it.
Young people miss out on understanding alternatives to early promiscuity – not as a negative abstinence, but knowing more about the possibilities in love and its expression, and understanding more about their own bodies – their precious brains, and the Christian perspective of being ‘temples of the Holy Spirit’, also has a secular side. How to cope with sexual urgencies in adolescence needs far more discussion in the media generally – the constant stimuli are not at all good.
The youngsters in the documentary were aware of peer and commercial pressures to ‘have sex’ rather than ‘make love’. Training is needed in how to think and behave independently, according to conscience, rather than to have to be like everyone else in – even in the ways they try to be ‘different’. Do you have a ‘Thinking’ documentary on conscience and truth?
Worrying
This documentary is worrying because of how much it has to take into account low levels of thinking and high levels of emotional responses. The classroom scene of privileged students would contrast with privileged classrooms of fifty years ago in the liveliness and keenness of the students and the ability to express themselves clearly and thoughtfully. I thought the approach to sexual behaviour was muddled, quite apart from disagreeing with some of it.
Young people miss out on understanding alternatives to early promiscuity – not as a negative abstinence, but knowing more about the possibilities in love and its expression, and understanding more about their own bodies – their precious brains, and the Christian perspective of being ‘temples of the Holy Spirit’, also has a secular side. How to cope with sexual urgencies in adolescence needs far more discussion in the media generally – the constant stimuli are not at all good.
The youngsters in the documentary were aware of peer and commercial pressures to ‘have sex’ rather than ‘make love’. Training is needed in how to think and behave independently, according to conscience, rather than to have to be like everyone else in – even in the ways they try to be ‘different’. Do you have a ‘Thinking’ documentary on conscience and truth?