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schools because he doesn't want it to become "time bound" and "because “changing social mores” will make fresh advice out of date".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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Here's a funny thing...

I posted a comment on the story from the Cambridge News about the BDSM workshop that was cancelled by the Trustees of the Village Hall because they didn't want that sort of thing there.

I've just had a call from the paper saying they've had to take the comment down because I mentioned my website in it, but how would I like to put a banner advert at the top of the page of one of their stories on it?!

So keep an eye on this page because Affordable Leather's banner will be appearing on it shortly!

LOL!!!!

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The latest nonsense...

Peer Rope Cambridge, a BDSM group, intended to hire a village hall for an event, however following some (as usual) over-blown coverage in the local media with lots of salacious nudge-nudge tittle-tattle, the Trustees cancelled the booking claiming it had been made "under false pretences".

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Village-hall-in-Cambridge-offers-bondage-on-a-budget-workshops-with-tea-and-biscuits-thrown-in-20130925043928.htm

The story has now hit the mainstream media with this article from the BBC and similar ones in The Guardian and other press.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-24240287

Frankly this is a complete storm in a teacup with lots of prurient lip-smacking details (mostly grubbed from the event's flyers or website by slothful journalists) and a quote from an "outraged" great-grandmother.

Some people have said that this is not the sort of pubicity that BDSM needs, however I think that it's actually positive because although, in the short term, it may put people off attending or even organising such events, in the long run many people will look at the reaction of the Trustees and think "what a prudish bunch of idiots".

If you don't like something, don't go to it, but don't try to stop others from enjoying something which does no harm by saying "We don't like it, so you're not allowed to do it!"

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