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Sex education in schools

Woman's Hour

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The Politics of Sex Positivity

Parents have the right to withdraw their child from sex ed. In this case, the subject was consent and I happily gave permission for my daughter to take part. But when she got home, she described something a little bit different. She was saying that she'd been taught, she lives in a heteronormative society. That's a very bad thing. She should be sex positive in her attitude to relationships. It has a lot of controversial issues that I think wouldn't meet the Education Act requirement for schools to be impartial.

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