Protect Innocence: Meaning, Sexual Education, and Child Safety
Protect innocence means safeguarding someone from exploitation or harmful sexual exposure, but it should not be confused with withholding age-appropriate education.
Protect innocence means safeguarding someone from exploitation or harmful sexual exposure, but it should not be confused with withholding age-appropriate education.
Save oneself by means protecting or preserving oneself through a stated action, such as setting boundaries, remaining abstinent, or reducing sexual risk.
Lascivious describes a look, remark, gesture, or behavior showing strong sexual desire in an offensive, indecent, or inappropriate way.
Lewd describes words, jokes, gestures, images, or behavior considered sexually crude, indecent, obscene, or offensively suggestive.
A virginity test is an invalid examination claimed to determine sexual history through the hymen or vagina, despite having no scientific basis.
Play dirty means to use unfair, dishonest, or manipulative tactics and may also be used playfully to suggest provocative intimacy between adults.
Vulgar describes language, behavior, humor, or material considered crude, offensive, indecent, or lacking social refinement.
A dirty joke uses sexual, vulgar, explicit, or suggestive language and situations to create humor, often through innuendo or double meaning.
Explicit means clearly stated or directly shown and may describe instructions, language, consent, images, or detailed sexual content.
Explicit talk is direct, detailed conversation that may openly describe sexual desire, anatomy, acts, fantasies, pleasure, or boundaries.