Sex education, UK
*Sex education in English schools set to be
banned
before children are nine.* These guidelines cover education of teenagers as well as
that of children, and some topics won't be allowed until age 15.
A fraction of teenagers find themselves (willingly or unwillingly) in sexual situations
before that age. They would be better off knowing some crucial points about birth control
and preventing disease, and how to say no firmly but without rejecting the person, before
they need to know it.
Here is
criticism
of that rule.