SEX AT SCHOOL
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The problem...
The UK has the highest number of teenage pregnancies (90,000 conceptions
a year) in western Europe
The average age of first sex in young women has gone down five years in
the last two generations and is now the second-lowest in the EU
UK cases of the sexually-transmitted infections, chlamydia and gonorrhoea,
doubled in young people in the last five years
A quarter of UK teenagers have had sex before they're 16
Young people who start sex before 16 are less likely to use contraceptives
40 per cent of young boys, according to the Schools Education Unit, have
not heard of HIV
Say goodbye to flying storks and the birds and the bees, but don't overdo the graphic descriptions or the 'f***speak'. That's what the kids suggest. They want honest, basic information about sex, and the chance to talk about 'feelings' and 'relationships'. And
it should start in junior school between the ages of nine and 11.
