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Porn Claire Perry Sex Education

Children ‘should learn about online pornography at school’

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By John Glenday, Reporter

September 3, 2013 | 2 min read

One of David Cameron’s top advisers has called on the government to reform existing sex education classes at school to teach children about online pornography.

Conservative MP Claire Perry is backing calls for a rethink of current coursework to reflect the digital age, after the NSPCC labelled present sex education practices as ‘woefully inadequate’.

This followed publication of survey results which showed that close to a third of pupils believe online pornography dictates how they should behave in a relationship. Of 601 pupils aged 11-18 72 per cent thought pornograph6y should constitute a plank of their curriculum.

Commenting in a blog post for The Telegraph Perry said: “The rise of sexting, online bullying, porn and young people documenting their entire lives on the web needs to be a core tenet of how we teach sex and relationships.”

She added that the guidance should be redrawn by sex education experts. “Rather than putting one more set of responsibilities on the shoulders of hard-working teachers, it should be possible to encourage schools to develop relationships with the many excellent charities and organisations that use trained experts to deliver the right messages to young people in appropriate and high-impact ways.”

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