Michael Gove and (lack of) Sex Education

Michael Gove the Education Secretary thinks that we should not update sex education in schools because he doesn't want it to become "time bound" and "because “changing social mores” will make fresh advice out of date".

WTF? Sex education advice to schools was last updated in 2000, ie *thirteen years ago*. How, exactly is that not "time bound"??

Thirteen years ago kids did not have the internet and smart phones and didn't have free and easy access to online pornography. Now they do, however instead of passing stupid and ineffective laws making ISPs impose default-on blocks on adult content (which are laughably easy to circumvent) we need to *educate* children about sex and sexuality and relationships and how to behave towards one another.

Unfortunately although Nick Clegg and, indeed, David Cameron agree that advice needs to be updated for the modern world, Michael Gove wants to keep children ignorant in the deluded view that somehow denying them information will make them safer!

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