BY RICHARD NELSON

There’s a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky that’s getting the nation’s attention. Usually, summer camps feature swimming, hiking, canoeing, and other outdoor activities for kids. But this one is making waves because the theme is sex education. It’s called Sexy Summer Camp, and it is open to all ages, according to Sexy Sex-Ed’s website.

The camp is receiving national attention because of controversial lessons it held last year on “gender exploration,” “being a sex worker,” “BDSM,” “self-managed abortions,” and “sexual activity while using licit and illicit drugs.” The camp is based out of Hazard and is for children in Kentucky’s rural mountains. The pretense is that kids need to understand their sexuality, but do minor children really need summer camp lessons that transgress public decency and break down moral barriers?

Tanya Turner, the leader of the camp, makes it more edgy and uncomfortable when she says in a Youtube promo video that “masturbation is really healthy and I recommend it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my nephews could talk, they were doing that.” Turner identifies as a “magical pleasure worker” and was raised by witches in a “coven-like mountain matriarchy”-not exactly the role model most parents would entrust their kids to.