Historically, fertility was at the center of every major religion and culture. Smaller populations and lower technology meant crops and livestock were more precious forms of food. The mythology was taught from elders to children so they could learn how to fertilize the fields, tend the flock, or find a mate so they could have a large, happy, prosperous family.

The goddess represented gift of life by the very nature of her body. Without her no births, no crops, no animals. Almost always, the goddess had a male mate/god, so together their creation would be cared for. A model for family, survival, and legacy.

In modern civilization, it is really hard to be a kid in this day and age. Society treats them like garbage rats in public. Adults expect so much out of them. Many kids grow up wondering why they had to grow up so fast never experiencing the joy of childhood.

Remember Toys R Us before it went bankrupt? "Where a kid can be a kid." Where? Tell me one place outside the home (if that even) where a kid can go where they aren't made to feel bad for being themselves. Somewhere outside, away from the rest of the world is all I can think of.

Giving someone a condom as a joke is a tease and a threat. Experiment, have lots of sex, but don't make babies. Enjoy exploring your sexuality, the less hetero oriented the better, the more strange fetishes the better, as long as you don't experiment with natural reproduction. Kids are overpopulated and polluting to the earth. What a demoralizing lesson to learn for a kid on Easter.

Learning about the Christian resurrection story isn't an easy one for kids either. A widow mother mourns the tragic, wrongful murder of her son by the government. Then he rises up like a ghost, and after everyone sees him he flies up in the sky and never returns. It takes years of counseling with the pastor for a child to understand this is meant to be a story of rejoicing and not a tragic ending.

Kids would have been happier with candy filled eggs or stuffed animals.