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Media used to teach sex education

07 Dec 2004

 

Teen magazines and television programmes are being used to help teach children sex education.

 

Teachers in some schools have been providing children between 12 and 15 with magazines such as Bliss, Sugar and Mizz, which have been criticised in the past for their overtly sexual content, in an attempt to demystify sex for youngsters.

 

Teenage pregnancy rates have continued to rise across the country despite efforts from the Government to improve sex education and teach children to be safe.

 

The MediaRelate project was devised after research found many young people preferred to gain information on sex and relationships from the media.

 

Pupils will also be shown programmes such as Footballers' Wives, but shadow education secretary, Tim Collins, has said he is very concerned by the potential effects of using such material to aid sex education.

 

Earlier this year the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said teen magazines should carry age restrictions on their front covers and warned that they "glamorise promiscuity".

http://www.hda-online.org.uk

 

 

Demystify??

I recommend Cosmo. :thumbup

Cosmo has some pretty slutty ish in it. I read it at my friend's dorm a few times. Those stories are steamy.

I read it every month... it's got some useful stuff in there. (Not all of it is worth reading though)

And not to be out done here by the UK Canada's sex ed classes feature right out porn. You know you are jealous.

 

FREDERICTON (CP) - Parents opposed to New Brunswick's sex education curriculum say the program's resource material includes Internet links to pornographic websites.

 

A group of parents met Tuesday with Education Minister Madeleine Dube to outline their objections to the sex-ed curriculum for grades 6, 7 and 8, which includes discussions on oral sex, mutual masturbation and sexual pleasure. The parents also presented Dube with a list of websites for youth from a reference document for the program, including one site that offers links to an online sex-toy store that sells "bedroom adventure gear."

 

"The resource document is entitled Beyond Basics," said Dr. Carolyn Barry, a Fredericton-area physician and one of the leading opponents of the new curriculum.

 

"It should be called beyond belief."

I love the last quote it made me crack up.

 

here's the whole thing

 

And for the record, I have realized lately we could save a lot of these threads if people just went to Fark everyday, because this is what the outfield and bullpen is filled with. So yeah. Tootsie Roll (you know who you are xoxoxo skeet skeet buttseckz) you should go there too.