Urgh no. Where is the education here?
It is not educational to discuss ‘what sexual activity is possible’ using random combinations of body parts and ‘objects’. (What, anything?) Where is the relationships and consent context? The safer sex information?
These idiots can fuck off with their ‘no judgement’ approach. this is stirring up questions that many teachers are going to be wildly ill equipped to answer and encouraging misogynistic approach to female orifices.
Like many parents, I have campaigned for RSE to be compulsory where it is teaching kids something important like about consent, mutual pleasure and safer sex etc. This is none of that. School should be covering relationships and sex with reliable evidence-based, age appropriate information.
There is zero educational point of just getting kids to talk about sexual practices in the classroom- in front of peers and adults in authority- without teaching them anything?
That just establishes sexualised norms with the authority of it taking place in a whole-class school setting.
Great quotes in that Times article, from Safe Schools Alliance and I am particularly happy to see a government MP supporting this critique:
‘Jackie Doyle-Price, the Tory MP for Thurrock, said: “I fully supported the introduction of RSE into schools as I firmly believed it would be a force for empowering girls to take more control of their bodies and their relationships against a background of increasingly sexualised behaviour in schools and abuse of under-age girls. It is with horror that I see materials being produced which do the exact opposite. Schools should be teaching about mutual respect and consent and safe sex. That such materials have been funded by tampon tax grants is just appalling.”
Tanya Carter, a spokeswoman for Safe Schools Alliance, said: “This ‘resource’ clearly breaches safeguarding. The tampon tax should be used to educate girls on their rights — not prematurely sexualise them.
“When delivering RSE, teachers must be mindful that there will be children in the class who have been or are being sexually abused or exploited and that the lessons will be traumatising for them. It is important that schools widely consult parents and staff to avoid inappropriate materials such as this slipping through the net.”