Mia writes: when my first child started school, I was surprised to learn that kiss-and-catch is now banned in the playground. But it was not to protect the girls. It was to protect the boys. Not much has changed. I recall harassing a little boy called Joel to play kiss-and-catch with me when I was 5. It was always a game the girls were keener on than the boys.

Anecdotally, this trend appears to continue throughout primary school. Generally, girls seem to be more….forward with all that stuff until boys catch up around puberty. But it raises some challenging questions. Like the one about ‘slut-shaming’. Blogger Airial Clark writes:

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