Training children about sex is without concern a little awks. But growing ethical panic, pervasive pornography and increased knowledge of intimate punishment have really turned it directly into a veritable minefield.

Issues and remarks built-up from Victorian schoolchildren by specialists through the Sexuality Educators’ Collective. Credit: Josh Robenstone

It is before dinner in just a little meeting room through the Hampton Community Centre, in Melbourne’s suburban south. A dozen women, sitting around a square dining are chatting, rapid-fire, about sexual intercourse. There are numerous “p” terms: pornography, pleasure, penis. But this is nothing unusual. These females constantly mention sex. They are generally educators that are intercourse experts in describing intercourse and relationships to kids and adolescents, used by state schools, fancy personal schools and conservative Catholic schools. Читать далее →