A Tory MP has criticized a UK 2020 Government guidance on sex education in schools which she says has “opened the floodates” to children being exposed to “extreme and inappropriate” sexual content in the classroom.
Miriam Cates, a member of the Commons’ education committee and Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, criticized the Relationships and Sex Education guidance (RSE) at a Westminster Hall debate.
The RSE framework allowed for external sex education organizations to provide resources to schools, resulting in children being exposed “to a plethora of deeply inappropriate, wildly inaccurate, sexually explicit and damaging materials” which contribute to what she calls the “sexualization and adultification of children.”
MP Cates referenced a learning pack provided by the LGBT charity Diversity Role Models which was found to contain the phrase “Love has no age limit,” a slogan that has historically been associated with pedophile rights advocates.
“If we tell children that ‘love has no age’… Do we undermine their understanding of the age of consent?”, MP Cates said.
Also included in the Diversity Role Models pack, though not cited by Cates, was a list of book recommendations provided by Diversity Role Models. One recommended book, titled “Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out,” contained a graphic account of a six year-old child performing oral sex.
Cates went on to reference learning resources from the Sex Education Forum that that divided children into either “menstruators” or “non-menstruators,” and cautioned that this would cause confusion among girls.
“If a teenage girl’s periods don’t start, what will she think? How will she know this isn’t normal? How does she know to consult a doctor? How will she know she’s not pregnant? Will she just assume she’s one of the ‘non-menstruators’?”
In addition to gender identity, Cates pointed out that lessons about BDSM and rough sex are being utilized.
Lessons for children aged 14 and older provided through Bish, created by Justin Hancock, describe rough sex in an uncritical manner, including slapping and choking.
“If there’s little or no care or consent, these things are acts of violence and criminal offences,” notes Bish, before saying that “rough sex is quite common, [and] most of the time it is probably consensual.”
“BDSM is now just a general term which applies to activities, or fantasies, or scenes, that involve a consensual exchange of power,” explains Bish’s website.
“The introduction of graphic or extreme sexual material in sex education lessons also reinforces the porn culture that is damaging our children in such a devastating way,” Cates said. She then quoted research which found that “half of all fourteen year-olds have seen pornography online, much of it violent and degrading.”
Speaking with the BBC about her concerns regarding the education materials, MP Cates told presenters that she could not provide explicit details, as doing so would violate their broadcast rules.
UK-based NGO We Can’t Consent to This publishes research on the harms of physically abusive sex in response to the increasing numbers of women and girls killed and injured during intimate acts.
According to their site, which also documents profiles of the women murdered by males who would go on to claim the ‘rough sex’ defense, 38% of UK women under the age of 40 have experienced unwanted slapping, spitting, strangulation, or gagging in otherwise consensual sex.
In 2020, BBC Disclosure and BBC 5Live commissioned a survey of 2,049 men in the UK aged 18 to 39, and found that 71% of them said they had slapped, choked, gagged or spat on their partner during consensual sex.
The ‘rough sex’ defense has been used in over 60 homicides of women in the United Kingdom alone, representing a 10-fold increase in the use of the claims between 1996 and 2016.
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