What happened?
British children aged six are being taught about “self-stimulation” of “private parts”, the Mail on Sunday has revealed. The All About Me programme, whose materials have been used in more than 240 primary schools, includes a teaching manual which advises teachers to tell six-to-10 year-olds about how people “stroke themselves”.
Why was it under-reported?
The media have struggled to deal with the issue of sex education: the Government’s recent expansion of “relationships and sex education” was passed with little scrutiny or debate. As Celia Walden wrote in the Daily Telegraph last week, political correctness has led to an uneasy silence: “At a kids’ party on Saturday, I couldn’t help noticing how many discussions on parental subjects were permeated with pauses. It wasn’t just that people weren’t sure what they were allowed to say, but that they weren’t sure what they were supposed to think any more.”
