Love Island Should Not Be Where Our Kids Learn About Sex
I went to a sex education class for parents once, called ‘Doing it like the Dutch’. Dutch teens have the lowest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, so clearly their parents are doing something right, and I figured that even if I didn’t learn much, the class would offered welcome respite from cries of ‘I want Ketchup.’
Our class also had a questions section, during which the most common query wasn’t about sex but rather, about love. How do we teach children the link between the two - encouraging our children to explore sex with people who value and respect them? Which, in turn, raised questions about ITV’s. A veritable wildlife programme of horny humans trying to find The One - and win £50,000 - but with David Attenborough’s dulcet tones replaced by tabloid scandal and fake tan.
Before Love Island, or even reality TV existed, most of us learned about sex by reading books. My first foray into love and lust was withPolo. That well-thumbed tome with quips such as ‘he delved into her moist mossy mound’ taught me all I needed to know about getting it on. Sure, my parents had given me The Talk and I’d seen my biology teacher slip a condom on a banana but Polo was the visceral, raw, sexual and X-rated bible that told me the fictional truth..
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