Teaching taboos
from Christian Concern:
A report published this week into the sexual behaviour of 16-24 year olds found that teenagers are increasingly experimenting with taboo practices. Even though the report only deals with the behaviours of young adults, it concludes that education for children should become more graphic. And that’s exactly what Goedele Heikens, sexologist and ambassador for the UN’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education programme, advocated when she appeared on This Morning.
LBC presenter Nick Ferarri made a spirited defence and the poll running throughout the interview closed with 73% of voters against the idea, so common sense prevailed. Here are a few more reasons why it’s a harmful proposal.
Schools cannot solve all social ills – we cannot educate our way out of a broken mess. The Department for Education (DfE) – together with its enforcers at Ofsted – is bent on a form of social engineering that imposes a singular liberal agenda on the education service (even in the private sector), in the name of preparing children for life in modern Britain. But children only spend about 20 per cent of their lives in school – it’s parents who should take first responsibility for talking to their children about sex. It’s also their job to set boundaries: there is growing evidence that parents are actually afraid to do so in case they alienate their children or find themselves shamed on social media. As a result, growing numbers of children get their information online, often on porn sites.
There is a tacit assumption that ‘more information’ equates to ‘better education’. Yet nowhere during this programme, or elsewhere in the wider debate, is there any consideration of moral values. ‘As long as children understand consent then nobody gets hurt and everyone can enjoy themselves’ is how the argument goes. Society needs moral red lights. We teach children the rules about traffic lights and road safety, yet are loathe to adopt moral red lights to protect them from early sexualisation, online pornography and sexual promiscuity.
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