There Is No Sex Fairy — To Protect Our Children From Becoming Sexual Abusers

Most Americans believe in the Sex Fairy. We love our children, raise them to be Baptists, Catholics, or Mormons, and teach them how to play Little League and how to make a good omelet. But when it comes to sex, we do nothing. We just hope that the Sex Fairy will zap our children in the crotch as they walk down the wedding aisle, magically turning them into sexually healthy adults.

Sadly, the Sex Fairy Myth flourishes for adults who believe (hope) that childhood is a sweet time where kiddos know nothing about sex and instead innocently concentrate on Barbies and Badminton.

Yet, in reality, screaming sexual subtleties permeate the everyday lives of children, long before parents are ready with instruction from the Kotex pamphlet or the podium-in-the-family-room lecture on swimming sperm.

As children forge on their own, sponging sexual information from the world, the path to sexual disrespect is easy to follow, even though lifetime punishments await from a pretend-to-protect society.

Perhaps as never before, newscasts and newspapers tout the problem of sexual abuse, leading a fearful society to a vengeful platform of strict laws, harsh penalties, and, ironically, an even more tight- lipped approach to sex education for children.

And even though these unforgiving and merciless responses are designed to protect children, this same promising society often applies these punitive measures to sexually acting children — smugly suggesting they knew better.

There Is No Sex Fairy challenges America's pretend protection of its youth, asking how children can be punished for sexual disrespect when that same society prudishly fails to teach them sexual respect.

In a rip-roaring, irreverent poof and puff, the Sex Fairy teaches what children really learn about sex from their world and how easy it is to become a sexual abuser.

With outlandish and outrageous flare, the Sex Fairy actually exists in the publication that says she does not exist — just to exemplify the absurdity and nonsense of America's approach to the sexuality of children.

In all her befuddled bewilderment, and with a tear in her eye, the Sex Fairy shares her "Ten Commandments For Raising Sexually Respectful Children," teaching that the ultimate protection of children from sexual abuse is to prevent them from becoming sexual abusers.

Publication details:

Written by Jan Hindman.
Illustrated by Tom Novak for fun and flair.
Softbound, lap size for easy reading.
Full-color Sex Fairy centerfold.
530 pages.
$24.95