The children will fall silent as you step into the room, not
for fear of your countenance, but for the muted tales that their older siblings
will have told them of you. Even your
introduction, flush with candor, will make their blood run cold in their veins.
"Hello class.
I'm Mister Jacobson," you'll announce, depositing your briefcase on
the table in front of them. "Your
sex ed teacher."
You'll punctuate your sentence by opening the briefcase and
removing your smart phone from it. The
briefcase will be empty aside from this device and a single sheet of paper, on
which you'll mark attendance later.
You'll take your phone and, using a cord provided by the school
department, plug your phone into the projector sitting in the middle of the
room. With that done you'll fiddle with
your phone a bit, then look out over the room, reading through the names on
your attendance list.
When you reach James Frankletorp's name you'll pause.
"Are your grandparents Gloria and Shem
Frankletorp?" you'll ask him.
"I guess," he'll mutter in response, eyes still
fixed on his desk. He'll know what's
coming. The whole class will know what's
coming, but James will have the misfortune of being the one to bear the full
brunt of your attention.
After he responds you'll pick up your phone again, fiddle
with it until you find the relevant file, then turn off the lights and turn on
the projector. Light will scintillate on
to the screen, requiring delicate effort and tuning until it sharpens into a
still image of two elderly white people facing one another in the nude, bodies
loose and baggy, faces harrowed. Once
the image comes into focus you'll press play on the video. The elderly white folk will immediately begin
touching one another, painfully unaware of the fact that they're being
filmed. They'll clumsily smash their
bodies together, grinding, moaning, sweating, grunting, cursing, praising
Jesus, and, at one particularly fraught moment, begging one another to
stop. When they finish they'll do so
with terrified looks on their faces, as if this might be the way they die, as
if they might be found locked in this terrifying, macabre embrace. The video will end soon thereafter, you'll
switch the projector off and the lights back on. The students will all be staring ahead, all
except James, who will be staring at his desk.
It will look like he's been weeping quietly to himself. You'll smile and begin speaking.
"This is what sex is.
Sex is horrible. Sex is
hideous. Sex is the source of all
shame. To have sex is to give in to base
desire, to become as those elderly folk are, truly reprehensible. Never have sex."
After you finish you'll pack up your smart phone, exit the
classroom and leave the school, pausing only to deposit the attendance roll
sheet with the principal's office. Then
you'll get in your Honda Accord and begin driving towards your next
destination, another school, filled with another group of children, one of
whom, you're sure, will soon to be subject to a most unpleasant surprise.
Congratulations on Ruining Sex for Those Kids!
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