If I Could Give a Yopp: Confronting Sex, Talk, and Parenting
Document Type
Book Contribution
Publication Date
12-1-2014
Description
Excerpt: I am wearied by sexual repression in the family. I find parental obsession with virginity for its own sake tiresome. I am troubled by the neighbour boy who, when playing some form of truth or dare, dared my daughter, twice his age, to jump in the air and grab her penis; she says, “That’s going to be tricky, since I don’t have one.” He says, “Really? Why not?” He was seven. My own son figured this out in the bathroom with me at around two.
Citation Information
Kinser, Amber E.. 2014. If I Could Give a Yopp: Confronting Sex, Talk, and Parenting. Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments. Amber Kinser, Kryn Freehling-Burton, and Terri Hawkes, Eds. Demeter Press. 121-131. http://demeterpress.org/books/performing-motherhood-artistic-activist-and-everyday-enactments/ ISBN: 9781927335925