By Lisa Correnti, C-Fam
The UN agency tasked with the care and protection of children around the world has pulled down sexual images and curricula from their website after a recent report exposed sexually explicit programs targeting children.
The report published by the Center for Family and Human Rights was released just as the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is seeking endorsement from Member States for their new 3-year strategic plan. The UNICEF executive board consisting of 36 countries has been meeting in New York all week.
Among the pages of information UNICEF purged from its website is a comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) program directed at children in Ukraine. The curriculum, titled “Adulthood without Secrets,” for children ages 10-14 explains the fluidity of one’s sexual orientation during life, including identifying as homosexual, bisexual, pansexual or asexual.
In the section on “sex and relationships,” sex is defined as “one of the ways people interact, when they express their feelings for each other through physical contact.” Sex is described as something that is an “important part of a relationship” that “helps express intimate feelings and togetherness between partners” and can “strengthen relationships.” Children are instructed on the “criteria” for “good sex” which is “sex during which you pleasure from all the processes and reach orgasm” and the necessity of foreplay.