Sex Education in Primary Schools

[foodmaniac]

5 is a little too young, I think. I myself didn't learn anything about it until I was in High School. I think that should be about the right time, or at least in 6th grade or something like that.

 

[razer17]

5 is too young in my opinion.
At 5 kids have no sexuality, no effort should be made to force it upon them - already we see kids are becoming sexually active at younger and younger ages.

Kids that age should be let alone when it comes to sex ed, 10 years old is the minimum in my eyes. At least then the kids are within 2-3 years of their hormones kicking in.

Considering kids are already having sex at 10 and 11, I think it's a little late to just start teaching them. There was that girl here in Britain who got pregnant aged 11 not long ago.

And since the 5 year old would only be taught about the body, not sex, I think it's reasonable.

 

[thahat]

personally, i vote region specific.
i live rurally here in the netherlands, i had no interest in this til i was what? 8-12?
and that was just because i accidentally saw a porn movie late at night when going to the damn toilet.

in the cities though, maybe as young as that is required, but hell if i know XD

 

[Naheal]

Actually, it's at 5 you learn parts of the body - it's only later you learn about 'the birds and the bees', as it were.

But I do think it's a good idea to teach them it as a compulsory measure - a lot of people I know, including myself, never got taught it at all. It's a problem, and it's good the government is taking action to stop it.

I'd like to argue against this, but... this is an excellent point. So long as the whole "control" thing is taught as well, I don't see an issue.

 

[razer17]

That's... no.

Sex is something that should be used maturely and responsibly. 5-year olds simply don't have the maturity to properly deal with that information. At all. This is a horrible, horrible idea.

I was right. Eventually kids will be learning about sex the moment they enter school, with in-class practice. I mourn the complete loss of common sense and morality in our world...

This is not a horrible, horrible idea. And I would certainly think that trying to avoid teen pregnancy is the opposite of losing common sense and morality. They aren't going to teach 5 year olds about sex. They are going to teach them about the body, which is important. Only when they are older will they learn about sex, but considering some girls are no getting pregnant as young as 11, sex ed needs to happen before age ten. It isn't immoral to teach kids about adult life so they are fully equipped to deal with it, that's just a prudish view.

 

[razer17]

The way we're doing it is fine:

IT really, really isn't. People as young as 11 are getting pregnant, something needs to be done. No one is teaching 5 year olds about sex, but about the body. And that's important. Later comes sex ed. But what do you think 5 year olds would do if they were taught about sex? And kids that age already have some idea. Just look at the case where a mum caught her daughter and a boy playing "show me yours and I'll show you mine" and then the little girl claimed that the boy raped her, so she wouldn't get in trouble. Maybe these kids do need some sort of education, no?

 

[WestMountain]

I had my Sex Education when I was 15 and that was just someone strapping a condom on a wooden dick, we don't need to learn more than that, kids nowadays watch TV and stuff and learn thereafter :]

 

[razer17]

I didn't know about sex at age five. If I'd heard about it, I was the type of ridiculous child who would have tried it.

This is a terrible idea.

Before I sound like a broken record, read my other three posts, matey-bob.

 

[TimeLord]

For those of us who are UK residents

We already have Sex Education in Primary School

Well Scotland does, I got Sex Ed at age 8/9

 

[Ickorus]

I had my first Sex Ed class at 11, I think that's a good age to be honest.

5 is way too young.

 

[Thaius]

That's... no.

Sex is something that should be used maturely and responsibly. 5-year olds simply don't have the maturity to properly deal with that information. At all. This is a horrible, horrible idea.

I was right. Eventually kids will be learning about sex the moment they enter school, with in-class practice. I mourn the complete loss of common sense and morality in our world...

This is not a horrible, horrible idea. And I would certainly think that trying to avoid teen pregnancy is the opposite of losing common sense and morality. They aren't going to teach 5 year olds about sex. They are going to teach them about the body, which is important. Only when they are older will they learn about sex, but considering some girls are no getting pregnant as young as 11, sex ed needs to happen before age ten. It isn't immoral to teach kids about adult life so they are fully equipped to deal with it, that's just a prudish view.

That's what we've said multiple times, but each time we lower the age for it, it just lowers the common age of pregnancy. Admittedly I doubt it is biologically possible for it to dip below 11, but that doesn't mean it's okay for kids to be sexually active before then. We've hit a new low here.

It's not as bad as I thought if they don't actually learn about sex until later, but I'm still not sure it's a good idea. Remember DARE? The program that decided the way to keep kids off drugs was to teach them about drugs while they were young, before they had the opportunity to get into something they didn't understand? Remember how that went? The education just got them interested at a young age and it had the opposite of the intended effect, because the kids were not yet mature enough to make good decisions regarding the subject matter. You really think if we teach young kids about sex, they'll be responsible with it? You really think they're mature enough to handle the responsibility that comes with that knowledge? Go to any elementary school and tell me that.

 

[Ishamel]

Best way to explain sex to five-year-olds? It's a special cuddle that Mummy and Daddy do when they want to have a baby. Takes out all the awkward questions about body parts and so forth, and introduces the idea that it's a pleasurable, loving experience at the start. I got filled in on the details when I was 7, and didn't feel the need to try it out at all.

I was shocked by how ignorant the rest of my class was when we started sex ed at age 9, even about their own bodies, and by age 11 when we started watching videos I was even more shocked. I know a guy who at 18 thought that women pissed through their vagina. If parents are going to be squeamish about it, then someone has to step in.