WWF in British Literature

We're talking about Beowulf in class. Ya know, the classic 'foundation of British literature' story of a super-man who kills dragons, zombies and the zombie's mom. I like this story. Parents think it's nice, clean literature that will develop their child into an upstanding citizen, and then I get to teach all the violence, blood, guts, and appendage ripping horror to these wide-eyed missionary kids.

I hit the jackpot this year with this little piece of magic: Beowulf vs. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Let's take these two guys and pit them against each other and see what happens. Before I read this I had to explain what WWF is and who "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is. Too bad internet was down and I couldn't show a YouTube video!

I keep wondering to myself how much to expose these kids to. In my mind, if I can open their eyes to something here, in this safe classroom, then all the better for them when they return to their home countries. Therefore, I have no problem tossing a picture of this scary wrestler dude standing in a ring in nothing but his man-panties for all my kids to see. I take time to explain a piledriver and body-scissors (the kids kinda gaped at me a little when I asked if any of them wanted to show us how they were really done) so they can see how ridiculous it all is.

Something I struggle with is knowing where the line is. At what point am I explaining and exposing them to too much? Is there a line? My kids in the states catch almost all of Shakespeare's sexual humor, and my kids here catch almost none of it. Do they need to know? Am I doing them a disservice by leaving them in the dark about this? I don't want them to leave naive, but I don't want to over expose them either ... I'll leave all the over-exposing to "Stone-Cold."

What do you think?