My friend is allowing 13 year old to watch 'Sex Education'

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Is this not so inappropriate? They didn't ask to, the parents suggested it and had seen it themselves, why would you?

Well it's not that bad really, a bit graphic on the sex side but I can think of worse things a 13 could be watching, I remember watching trainspotting when I was 13.

I think it's fine.

It's harmless. I watched much worse And
I turned out ok.

I was happy for DS3 (14.5) to watch it. In my opinion it is a healthy, positive, relatively realistic portrayal of teenage sex.

Young teenagers are curious and will find information from wherever they can. Sex Education is mostly accurate and relatively benign.

OP: did you join Mumsnet just to start a thread about this?

I would feel awkward watching it with my parents but I think that it actually portrayed a very healthy way of looking at teenage sex. Have you even seen it OP? Or are you just judging it by the title?

Tend to agree 13 seems a bit young given the explicit content, but saying that there were actually some important issues tackled in an entertaining way and a good moral undercurrent, so depending on the 13 year old I reckon it could be suitable.

It’s fairly explicit but I felt it was ok for my 14, nearly 15 year old to watch, and was pleased it was a reasonably accurate representation of adolescent relationships.

I have a 14 year old dd and an almost 12 yo ds.
The thing I don’t want them to see( in mainstream movies) is violence and especially sexual violence. Particularly now in this porn soaked culture I think anything that shows consent and realistic sex is probably good , and I’d be fine with dd watching it, but ds is not too curious yet so i ynnk he’s too young.

Maybe in my ideal fantasy world where there wasn’t porn to mitigate against, I’d like my kids to find out about sex by exploring with partners they felt safe with. I mourn for the days when sex was “ doing what comes naturally” instead of kids learning that sex is something with no attraction and no intimacy, because that’s what they see in porn.