Sex education comic for primary schools causes controversy

I think it's not so much that folks are prudes, it's just something that need not be done in school.

It should have been done already when the child is say 3.

I can remember when it happened with my nephew...kids do after all say the darndest things:)

This seems like a storm in a teacup. Kids ask their parents verrrrry early on where babies come from, and I remember being given something just like this when I was a kid, a little paper book with information about mummies and daddies and lady parts and man bits and pictures and new words to help kids understand. It was great - kids can learn the basics when they really want to know, and go back to it when they're older for the specifics. Why are people such prudes? They're just genitals! Even kiddies have them.

Kids need to learn that it is not right for an adult to touch them in a sexual way, but the need to learn about their parts plus the parts of the other sex is not appropriate at that age. When I was in school we learned about it at ten years old. It was uncomfortable enough then.

Six and Seven year olds need this information from school?

NOPE...

Parents should have done this as their child learns to talk and ask "What's this?"

Yes, there should be a generic sex education I believe but parents should be doing this not others.

It's easy to become a parent..it's just plumbing but it's much harder to raise a child in an atmosphere of safety and intelligence and love.

Since we live in such an information rich society that's filled with conflicting viewpoints about everything under the sun, being as honest and forthright about such a sensitive subject seems to be the only defense against a host of misconceptions about such a basic, and positive, human function.

I'm not saying that you should haul out the Kama Sutra Coloring Book here, but they should, at the very least, have a good working knowledge about "where babies come from" and how their bodies work on a basic, biological, level so that when adolescence does arrive, they are prepared, both physically and psychologically, to avoid some of the more obvious dangers.

If a "comic book" can accomplish this with intelligence and respect, then I'm all for it.

are we that afraid of our pee pee parts?

Primary school seems a little bit too early to me. I can't imagine the kids would really be that interested, or comfortable, talking about it with their teachers. Instead their parents should have the task of telling them from an earlier age, and leave the in-school teaching to a more appropriate age.

Teaching children the correct name for body parts and "not confusing or putting fear in their minds" seem to be two totally unrelated points of view. It's seems to be more a matter of the lobbying group's creating "fear and confusion."

Since when does using the correct words inspire fear? Since when are body parts confusing? Sounds like a case of body shame by those who doth protest too much...

Get real: the kid's will learn more than you can imagine in the schoolyard at lunch - with most of it just plain wrong - teach them what's right early and there'll be less confusion and fear later on.

It is quite odd to me that parents don't teach their children the proper name for their body parts from the get go. It is an unfortunate fact that there are people out there that can do them harm. That said it is a parents duty to protect/prepare them.

The government has gone way too far with attempts to cut Britain's shocking teen pregnancy rate; kids do not want to talk about this stuff.