Calls for an end to the sexualisation of kids in schools

The Coalition for Marriage (C4M) has called for an end to the sexualisation of kids in schools and has denounced plans for a “summer of sex” at Westminster.

C4M pointed to official guidelines on sex education in addition to some concerning cases that suggest many children are being exposed to inappropriate material and are being indoctrinated right into a certain view of sex and sexuality.

According to government guidelines children as young as three could be taught about where babies come from, while from age five they could be taught that very same gender parents are the equivalent of opposite gender parents. At age 12 they could be taught that it’s their right to have sex, despite it being illegal to achieve this until age 16.

Richard Lucas, leader of the Scottish Family Party, told C4M that such material “corrupts young minds”, adding that such education rarely, if ever, mentions marriage as the right and most stable framework inside which sexual relations can happen.

C4M reports that sex education has sometimes gone up to now that even secular authorities have felt the necessity to intervene. It pointed to a faculty on the Isle of Man, which in 2023 suspended sex education after 11-year-old children were allegedly traumatised by lessons that covered oral and anal sex, how a man-made penis could be created for a sex change operation, and the variety of genders there supposedly are.

In one incident, a drag queen allegedly sent an upset child out of sophistication after the kid insisted there are two genders, relatively than the 73 being claimed by the drag queen. The school later said that the pupil had been temporarily faraway from the room by a teacher, not the drag queen, and never due to the guest speaker’s conversation about inclusion but to remind the pupil that they did “not need to agree with the guest speaker” but “must show respect”.

C4M has also taken issue with plans this summer by Labour MP Samantha Niblett to launch a “summer of sex” in collaboration with Cindy Gallop, founding father of MakeLoveNotPorn, which, despite the name, is in reality a pornography website.

MakeLoveNotPorn claims to differ from “traditional” pornography by featuring atypical people having sex versus skilled “performers”. Gallop also runs a sex education site which is geared toward ages “0 to 18 and beyond”.

Dr Tony Rucinski, Director of Supporter Strategy at C4M, suggested that the “summer of sex” was yet more evidence of the mainstreaming of inappropriate sexual material in public.

The Christian Institute has also hit out on the plans, with spokesperson Angus Saul saying: “Explaining to children and other young those who pornography presents a distorted view of relationships is a laudable objective, but this campaign is just going to present a really mixed message by suggesting that some porn is nice and a few is bad.

“This will only confuse people further, and will certainly detract from the work occurring elsewhere to limit children’s access to pornography and reverse the damage this material has wreaked on society.”

Dr Rucinski is backing calls by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman to implement sections 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996, which ban “indoctrination”, and has urged supporters to contact their MPs to “insist they stop sexualising our kids”.