Sex Education for Children

(Copenhagen, Denmark) Here's a new twist in nanny-state initiatives.

With puberty ages continuing to decrease for girls and boys, Randers council in Jutland has decided that sex education should also begin earlier, starting in the 3rd grade with 9 and 10 year-old children.

Scientists have put forth various, sometimes conflicting, explanations for why the puberty age has been decreasing over the past few decades.

But Randers council believes teaching the body's physiological developments and the difference between boys and girls to young children is important at a time when girls are experiencing their first menstrual periods and boys' hormones are beginning to stir.

‘Overall, children are reaching puberty much earlier than before,’ Hanne Andreasen, one of the two nurses behind the initiative, told public broadcaster DR. ‘We’ve normally been teaching sex ed in the 4th and 5th classes, but those kids are already in puberty and they often find much of it difficult to accept.’ [...]

Teacher Elizabeth Dahl says that the children ask a lot of questions during the nurses’ visits, especially about sperm – of which she admits not all of them really understand the importance.

‘It looked like there were tadpoles that came from the men when they tried to make babies,’ said Peter Oliver Dam Kromann, one of the children at Munkholm School. ‘And then there was something on the ladies. I don’t know exactly what it’s called, but when they meet, then you get a little baby inside the woman's stomach.’

Frankly, I suggest teaching prepubescent kids about sex just encourages them to experiment at a younger age.