29 Jun 2013 22:04:24 more evidence of a pro active agenda to get chil… · #9004

Don't get what you mean- sex is normal isn't it? Most theorists agree that teaching kids about sex early is the best way to avoid increased teenage pregnancies and STD's etc. Sex education in no way is encouraging paedophiles. If anything, it helps youngsters to grow up understanding what is acceptable and what isn't. They need to learn this stuff before they get access to pornsites on the net which will really warp their perspectives on sex.

Unfortunately Kids are able to access sites at such an early age that the need to teach them what is reality is very important.
Back in the day it was blue movies on your brothers VHS tapes and maybe a dirty mag you found now its everywhere and much more graphic.

Kopping a feel

I think you have got this wrong, Franky.
The sexualisation of our children is coming from the media and is not being dealt with by parents.
Look at the music industry, Beiber, in particular. There is someone, a near child himself, who has been marketed at 10-15yr old girls. Corporations selling sex to children is the only way you can describe that. Parents can choose to moniter their kids accessibility to such things but choose not to. If parents are not dealing with this properly and teaching their kids about this topic, the only place left to educate them in such matters is the schools. My brother-in-law is a primary school teacher and he says that the fellow teachers he has spoken to do not want to be teaching kids this stuff, it's a parents job.

The audio and visual bombardment of this generations children, from the media, celebrity and music industries, in particular, is where the blame should lie.

Jimi88

Sex education fine at an appropriate age not ten years old and under and yes I agree kids can easily stumble on porn on the net, but showing nine and ten year olds two adults have full penetrative sex and the same thing with masturbation is way to young, and there motives I treat with suspicion.

What age would you say is right then? Because kids are accessing horrible stuff far younger. There was a case in our local primary school when 2 lads were caught with porn on their phones- they were 7. Attempting to show them what's normal is important, even if it seems too young to you and I think it's slightly ludicrous to suggest there's an agenda to promote paedophilia in this. Attitudes to that have got far stricter over the years.

What is an appropriate age? Some kids are more mature than others.
I could have handled sex education at eight years old. At that age I already understood that other mammals did it. I have read about cases of young girls becoming pregnant as young as 11. If that's the case, then their sex education should have started at 9 or 10 to prevent it. Is that too young, Franky?


Jimi 88

You do get more mature kids developing than some other kids and there will always be the odd case of very young kids getting pregnant but guys I think you are missing my point, you mention kids having porn on a phone/internet easy to access which is my whole point, I will give you a example there has been a big crackdown on downloading torrents for movies and the chipped satellite boxes , the corporations were losing money big-time solution? they all got together and stopped it or made it very hard, now ask yourself could they do the same for anything pornographic? of course they could, there solution is to make it normal and that is there agenda and I am sorry that's what I genuinely think, let kids be kids because if this is going to be the norm god help kids in twenty years time.

btw I think the right age for sex education is when kids develop 12/13 average.

I'm fine with 10 year olds learning about sex education but showing them two adults having sex is just wrong.

Sex education should be diagrams on a white board and an animated video.

I agree with Franky and 10 is way too young!

Its not just about what is out there that they can access etc its about their understanding. How do you test a 10 year old has understood a sex education DVD. They would just giggle and most would not ask any questions.

It's too young ~ Mrs E

When I was 10, before the internet I may add, I had seen a porno film (soft by today's comparisons) and had 3 classmates who were no longer virgins. Mad but true.

Today, adding the internet to the mix, porn exposure prevails.

Those supporting frankie's view here are I fear wishing to project innocence onto our children in a world where none exists. I see that as the more dangerous option and draw parallels with my this and my mothers approach to parenting. I had sex education before leaving primary school and yet was almost 14 and in puberty when she sat me down for a birds and bees chat. I just laughed at her: too late isn't necessarily better than too early with such information.

P

The horse has definitely bolted p and there is no going back but I do not see the need to up the ante on sex education.