Would You Give Your Child Permission To Go On This Field Trip?

A sex ed teacher from a private school in Minneapolis recently took 12 middle- and high-school-aged students on a field trip to an adult novelty store called the Smitten Kitten. The parents of some of the students are outraged about the trip.

The teacher tells the St Paul Trib: “What I saw happening on our trip, I thought it was beautiful because kids could talk to these sex educators without any shame, without any fear. While at Smitten Kitten, students sat in the front in a library section of the store. Everything deemed pornographic was off limits to the students, though sex toys and other products were visible. The field trip offered students access to educators and products that could be used to practice safer sex. Some students bought condoms. You can’t say, ‘All kids should know this at this age.’ There are students that are already going through puberty at 10 or 11. It was certainly the first time we have taken that kind of field trip and it will probably be our last, which I feel bad [about] because the kids had so much fun.''

Would you let your kids go to an adult novelty store on a field trip?