Top academic: ‘More sex education is not the answer’

Professor Brenda Almond said that most five-year-olds have no interest in matters to do with sex and “wouldn’t even recognise the word.” And she believes that teenage pregnancies and other related problems “will not be solved” by more sex education. She went on to argue that children aged five to eight are “simply not emotionally ready for this sort of information.” Not only are their bodies not ready for sex, she said, but neither are their minds. “It plays no part in their lives and that, in my opinion, is exactly how it should stay.” Christian Institute