“Teach me divisions, not ejaculation.” The slogan, flanked by the face of a little girl, announces the color of the SOS Education campaign. The collective, which intends to fight to “obtain an improvement in the French education system”, has long been against sexuality education, which has undergone an overhaul since Pap Ndiaye’s move to the Ministry of National Education.
And the association found a very media face: the psychologist Marie-Estelle Dupont. On Wednesday, when questioned about sexuality education at school, she notably denounced “taxes which finance Public Health France campaigns where we explain to 11-year-old children how to perform anilingus”.
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The psychologist refers here to an extract from a onSEXprime website page, effectively managed by Public Health France. This site is dedicated to sexuality education among adolescents, and targets 10-19 year olds. At the bottom of the page in question, titled “Sexual practices, positions: how we do it”, a small drop-down tab is devoted to “oral sex”. We can read the following sentence there:
“ Rimming is kissing or licking your partner’s anus with your tongue or lips. »
After this succinct definition, the text indicates how to protect yourself with a condom during rimming. If Marie-Estelle Dupont is telling the truth by emphasizing the presence of this definition on a site “paid for by our taxes”, and that 11-year-olds are part of the target, it seems important to clarify several elements. First of all, nothing more precise on the practice of rimming accompanies this definition, neither text nor image.
Furthermore, this site is intended for adolescents who can browse it freely according to the questions they ask themselves. Sexuality is just one section among others devoted to body change, relationships (friends, family, etc.), norms and even gender. Many pages consist of defining terms that the Internet user might have encountered elsewhere, and a team of psychologists specializing in adolescents can be reached by chat for those who would like to explore their questions in more depth.
The false “trivialization” of sexual acts
The variety and extent of the sheets found on this site have nothing to do with the subjects covered during sexuality education sessions at school. It is therefore false to say, from this extract, that children are taught how to perform rimming at school. During the same subject on CNews, Marie-Estelle Dupont also claims that these courses “trivialize sexual acts” and that children are taught that caresses are “pleasant”, which would prevent them from denouncing acts of incest. .
An affirmation that is completely contrary to the freedom of speech on incest, which reveals precisely how the impossibility of finding resources participates in the mechanics of silence, but also a lie. Indeed, if we always rely on the onSEXplique site, the notion of consent is systematically recalled during questions on sexual themes. At the top of the page “Sexual practices, positions: how we do it”, well before the definition of rimming, these words come up several times.
“There is no blueprint for a sexual relationship, no stages you absolutely have to go through,” the introduction says. “There is no obligatory position in sexual intercourse. You only do the ones you want,” it is then repeated. “The most important thing is your consent: you only do what you really want to do”, we are reminded again after a paragraph which questions “the right to have sexual relations together”.
Who is Marie-Estelle Dupont?
To better understand this release, we must quickly look at the personality of Marie-Estelle Dupont. A very regular speaker on CNews, she also finds her place in the Sunday Newspaper since it was taken over by Vincent Bolloré, Current valuesthe conspiracy media France-Soir or even the far-right media Boulevard Voltaireas recalled Freeze Images. His interventions follow a very clear political line, very right-wing and very reactionary.
Still in the subject debated on Pascal Praud’s set on Wednesday, the psychologist thus draws a parallel between “Islamist ideology at school” and the “transactivist associations” which would intervene at school. However, when these sexuality education courses are taught, they are done by teachers in “70 to 90% of cases in primary school”, or by school nurses or Family Planning, as recalled by JDD before its change of ownership.