Sex education: why the British should go Dutch

[RaVen Blackehart]

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"The children of De Burght School in Amsterdam walk past the red-light district to their classrooms every day, past the “Peep Shows, Live Girls,” the risqué underwear shops and the newsagents selling teen magazines with free condoms. At school the five-year-olds play mummies and daddies in the playground knowing what their parents did in bed last night.

Next year, 12-year-old Sasha explains to me, they will learn how to put a condom on a broomstick (she says this without a trace of embarrassment, just a polite smile). Across the city, nine-year-old Marcus, who lives in a beautiful 18th-century house on a canal, has been watching a cartoon showing him how to masturbate. His sister, 11, has been writing an essay on reproduction and knows that it is legal for two consenting 12-year-olds to make love. Her favourite magazine, Girls, gives advice on techniques in bed, and her parents sometimes allow her to stay up to see a baby being born on the birthing channel."

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article5208865.ece

[moonlilly1981]

okay okay okay now......I think the ummmm "propaganda" is a bit to much for these kids at that age. Now im all for teaching the facts of life and being honest with our kids. Mine know the real facts about where their little brother came from when they asked. Granted we didnt go yeah your daddy humped me till he ejaculated but put it on a level they understood. Our hope ( key word here is hope ) that with being open and honest like this they will come to us when they start having sex so we can talk to them about being safe. As for the watching the baby be born no biggie. My girls have seen it on TV. Medical stuff like that we are okay with because of my husband being a paramedic. My oldest daughters favorite show is Trama Life In The ER. My husband took pictures of our son being born my c-section. The girls look at them all the time. Its not a big deal in our house.

[Silvahalo]

I don't know, this seems over the top. Watching babies born is no big deal. I had my then 3 1/2 yr.old watch that with me when I was preparing him for the coming of his new baby brother. He was delighted to "see", what I was talking about and seemed calmer about the whole, "where baby brother came from". We didn't get into all the details, of course, but nevertheless it seemed to satisfy his curiosities and questions.
I think children are exposed, no, I'd say inundated with so much sexual content, TV, magazines, etc., that I prefer to educate and expose as the questions and need arises. Children are growing up so fast, I don't see the need to over-expose sexual content.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

When my niece was 4 she sat on the floor and looked up my sister's dress. She proclaimed to everyone that there was no baby coming out. My sister wasn't even pregnant.

[Unamused Cat]

When my niece was 4 she sat on the floor and looked up my sister's dress. She proclaimed to everyone that there was no baby coming out. My sister wasn't even pregnant.


:rofl: I bet your sister was amused.