There is criticism of sex education classes from all sides – too modern, not modern enough. About bees, flowers, broomsticks and the question, how should you talk to children about sex?
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Marlene Hellene
At the beginning of the nineties there was the hit “Let’s talk about sex”. The band Salt‘n‘Pepa sang: “Let’s talk about sex, baby / Let’s talk about you and me / Let’s talk about all the good things / And the bad things that may be.” It still sounds relaxed today, a fresh breeze blew through this country with the song back then, everyone sang along, some even discussed its meaning. Today, thirty years later, the School Regulations Act, § 1 Paragraph 5, formulates talking about sex as follows: “Sex education is part of the school’s educational mandate. (…) Its aim is to provide the students with age-appropriate biological, ethical, social and to become familiar with cultural questions of sexuality. It should enable the students to make responsible, self-reliant and morally justified decisions, especially in marriage and family, and to be tolerant of other ways of life.”