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UK: Call for sex lessons at age four

BBC News

Children as young as four should be given compulsory sex education, two leading sexual health charities say.

The Family Planning Association and Brook told BBC Newsbeat more should be done to cut abortion rates and sexually transmitted infections among teenagers.

They argue gradual education from such a young age would help children not to rush into sex when they were older.

The Department for Children, Schools and Family said it was reviewing the

delivery of sex education in schools.

Children aged four might be taught about the names of body parts and basic ideas about different relationships.

The government is not giving young people enough information about sex and relationships, the charities add.

‘High expectations’

Brook chief executive Simon Blake said: “Many young people are having sex because they want to find out what it is, because they were drunk or because their mates were.

“That’s just not good enough for young people. We’ve got to have high expectations for them so they’ve got high expectations for themselves.”

He added: “All the evidence shows that if you start sex and relationships education early - before children start puberty, before they feel sexual attraction - they start having sex later.

“They are much more likely to use contraception and practise safe sex.”

The basic sex education that children are given in science classes does not go far enough, the charities say.

They want sex and relationship education on the curriculum across the UK alongside other compulsory subjects such as maths and English, as is the case in Northern Ireland.

The DCSF said effective sex and relationships education is essential for young people to make safe and healthy choices about their lives and prevent early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

A spokesman added that an advisory group on the issue would be making recommendations on new policy to the government later this month.

Sixteen-year-old Bethany, from Norwich told BBC News she had not understood the consequences of having sex early on.

“I didn’t know I could get pregnant,” she said. “I think if they started introducing sex education a bit earlier and teaching us a bit more about it so that we were more aware it would have helped me a lot.” Source

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UK: Most men are harassed by women at work

Comment from Tezza: I can understand this. Where I work, there are a couple of woman who just like to cuddle people in the morning, don’t ask me why, they just do. They walk up to anyone male and female and cuddle them. They obviously don’t intend to harass or offend; they do it as a kind of warm greeting I think. The point I am making here is this, if men were to do the same, it would be harassment, and it’s this double standard that pisses me off.

Telegraph
Rupert Neate

Four out of five men are sexually harassed by women at work - but are too afraid to complain to their employers - according to researchers.
A study by the law firm Peninsula found 85 per cent of employers admit they take a complaints of sexual harassment from a male employees less seriously.

Two-thirds of the 2,300 men questioned also said sexual banter was inappropriate at work.

David Price of Peninsula said: “The balance has shifted and it is now women who are aiming sexual banter at male workers

“Many workers are under the opinion that sexual banter is an acceptable norm in the work place.

“But not everyone is happy with these types of jokes and the situation is a consistently growing problem for employers.

“The majority of men don’t feel that gender discrimination applies to them, and tend to just accept any banter aimed at them.

“Male employees should not feel they can’t report incidents to their employer. It is an employer’s responsibility to investigate harassment claims, whatever the employee’s gender.”

Earlier this month girls at a further education college were reprimanded for wolf-whistling at builders.

Officials at West Kent College in Tonbridge, Kent, warned pupils the behaviour was “totally unacceptable,” and said any student caught harassing the contractors would face disciplinary action. Source

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US Opinion: Tyranny of the Pinheads

Last Free Voice
Steve Kubby

These days, Americans find their government increasingly concerned with limiting not just their freedom, but their very thoughts. A new cult of punishment and authoritarianism has turned society upside down with mindless pinheads on top and society’s brightest and most intellectually gifted, on the bottom, under virtual house arrest.

Everywhere we look, we see swarms of retarded Pinheads micro-managing our lives to the lowest and most banal level, unfettered by ambiguous notions like due process or constitutional rights. Self-righteous Pinheads are constantly telling us how we should live, what we should think, and how important their parasitic, non-productive, bureaucratic activities are to our well-being. At every level of government, pompous Pinheads wallow at the public trough, ever more arrogant, resentful and ignorant of the people they pretend to serve.

Just look at how the Democrats and Republicans have abandoned their traditional values, in favor of Pinheads who believe every social issue is ultimately reducible to more laws, more prisons and more wars. As a result, the Congress of the United States has become overwhelmingly populated by Pinhead public serpents, who only know how to spend or arrest their way out of problems.

Indeed, everywhere we look, the small-minded Pinheads of the world are telling us, the non-violent, unorthodox, independent and creative people of society, how to live our lives and raise our children.

Some may argue that I am out-of-line to criticize Pinheads, but that’s exactly what they’ve been doing for years to any of us who march to the beat of our own drummer. Under the Talaban-like rule of the Pinheads, independent thought and action is bad, while conforming and endless athletic rituals are good. Under the rule of the pinheads, physically gifted jocks are heroes, while intellectually gifted students are nerds. As a result, any Pinhead jock with a high school diploma can earn $60,000 working as a prison guard or DARE officer, while a college graduate working as a teacher earns half that amount.

Pinheads have a simple solution for everything, and when it comes to dealing with those who threaten Pinhead culture and puritanical values, the Pinheads have a simple four-step plan:

- –IDENTIFICATION: Arrest and fingerprint anyone who deviates from pinhead rules and values. Use victimless crimes, secret police and predatory prosecutors to expose non-conformists.

- –SEGREGATION: Pass laws that criminalize home schoolers, medical marijuana patients, gun owners, tax resisters and countless other law-abiding groups for loss of civil rights and restrictions on travel. Whether it is to deny student loans for pot use, or evicting seniors from public housing because a relative was busted for drugs, the purpose is to single out politically incorrect groups from society.

- –CONCENTRATION: Jail, parole and probation for those who deviate from the state, followed by loss of voting and travel as a convicted felon.

- –EXTERMINATION: Jail fathers, break up families, seize homes, just for growing plants. Refuse to allow sick and dying patients access to medical marijuana. Exterminate cannabis plants, creative people and unauthorized lifestyles.

So welcome everyone to the Pinhead States of America and learn to obey the Pinheads. Keep voting for Pinheads who are “the lesser of two evils,” and keep silent as the Pinheads give all the other Pinheads badges and guns, while they empty the universities and fill the prisons.

It’s a wonderful new world for the Pinheads — more taxes, fines, court appearances, IRS audits, and home invasions by SWAT police, for the rest of us.

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