Here are just three aspects of how the young are being sexualised today in the UK.
First, parents, do you know what your youngsters (or their mates) are viewing on their smart phones? Sadly, pornography is hooking even ‘good kids’—and this porn is light years from Page 3 ‘Girlie’ content.
‘Most teens (73%) reported that they have consumed pornography’. Fightthenewdrug.org
Given how powerful and addicting this type of pornography is, the Just Say No solution is insufficient. Youngsters need to know how and why it damages them.
For more, see Gary McFarlane’s brilliant ‘Sex, Love and Porn Addiction’: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1117412/episodes/16233057
Second, we are coming close to the season of PRIDE.
In June 2023, 6,000 schools celebrated one form of LGBTQ promotion, that of ‘Diversity Week’, the content of which many parents would have been ignorant. https://christianconcern.com/news/lgbt-diversity-week-targets-faith-schools-with-misleading-ideology/
Why is teaching primary (especially) youngsters about LGBTQ wrong?
Children are not mini-adults: they are wet cement. One does not teach about such matters, one embeds them in their psychological and moral framework: Love is good; gay is love; gay is good!
Also, children are taught that being gay means you ‘love’ a person of the same sex. Really? There are all sorts of loving same-sex relationships (within and without the family) which are non erotic. Indeed, children know they ‘love’ their same-sex best friend, so are they gay?
Pride proponents insist there is no sexual element, but this is obviously false. The erotic is a major part of gay ‘love’, unlike that of same-sex best friends.
To explain this to children one must discuss what the term ‘love’ means. How is this remotely age-appropriate?
Finally, RSE/CSE
CSE [Comprehensive Sex Education] is the worst form of mandatory RSE [Relationship and Sex Education] but is taught in many schools often in tandem with LGBTQ issues.
To be fair, pornography plays a huge role, but RSE/CSE is what ‘the Establishment’ endorses, and is taught by Christian teachers to Christian students.
A recent example of a popular CSE programme for ‘mature 8 year olds’ and older (to 15s) is Welcome to Sex, M Kang and Y Stynes (2023). It features two females ‘scissoring’ (a sexual activity), and one of them is an amputee. Apotemnophilia is a paraphilia where a partner has amputated limbs. That children are now tacitly groomed to think this is ‘normal’ beggars belief, but there we are.
Such content is likely one reason for the high rates of child-on-child sex abuse (over 50%).
So parents, please realise what is happening now, on your watch, to your youngsters, and do not assume ‘the kids are okay’!
Dr Lisa Nolland, Bristol
Letter to Heart Newspaper June/July 2025