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Sex Education

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Noraise · 09/07/2024 15:49

Is Sex Education in primary school ( Y5) mandatory?
Can anyone please advise me if it is? School is an academy by the way.

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bongsuhan · 11/07/2024 17:17

peopleare · 11/07/2024 17:13

Ok, so you think boys should be taught how to 'safely' strangle girls.

I don't.

I am happy with that being the difference between my position and yours. And I am confident in the values underpinning mine.

Well, somebody who knows that that practice exists and what risks are involved is much more likely to be able to say no than someone that has never heard of it and then gets bullied/talked into accepting it "because its OK and everybody does it".

peopleare · 11/07/2024 17:47

bongsuhan · 11/07/2024 17:17

Well, somebody who knows that that practice exists and what risks are involved is much more likely to be able to say no than someone that has never heard of it and then gets bullied/talked into accepting it "because its OK and everybody does it".

So you are being explicitly clear here that you are advocating for boys to be taught how to safely strangle girls. And in schools. You think schools have a responsibility to teach boys how to strangle girls.

And you are pretending that is a neutral position, when in reality it is very clearly an approach which condones and endorses these misogynistic acts against women. All you are doing is amplyfying the misogynistic message they are seeing in pornography.

I am advocating for a porn critical message which gives girls, and boys, the tools to be able to understand what they are seeing in pornography and how it is harmful.

Porn is not neutral and no lessons in schools should pretend it is. Pretending it is, is not a neutral act.

bongsuhan · 11/07/2024 18:02

peopleare · 11/07/2024 17:47

So you are being explicitly clear here that you are advocating for boys to be taught how to safely strangle girls. And in schools. You think schools have a responsibility to teach boys how to strangle girls.

And you are pretending that is a neutral position, when in reality it is very clearly an approach which condones and endorses these misogynistic acts against women. All you are doing is amplyfying the misogynistic message they are seeing in pornography.

I am advocating for a porn critical message which gives girls, and boys, the tools to be able to understand what they are seeing in pornography and how it is harmful.

Porn is not neutral and no lessons in schools should pretend it is. Pretending it is, is not a neutral act.

I've very obviously not said any if that.

Marblessolveeverything · 11/07/2024 18:31

peopleare · 11/07/2024 17:13

Ok, so you think boys should be taught how to 'safely' strangle girls.

I don't.

I am happy with that being the difference between my position and yours. And I am confident in the values underpinning mine.

Don't be disingenuous. I didn't say teach them how to strangle safely.

Telling them that what they see in porn the arguments they may be told and what the risks are is what I clearly stated.

Context information facts.

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