‘If a church school doesn’t believe in contraception,they won’t teach it.’ Family planning experts warn that ‘moralistic’ approach to some teenagers’ sex education is leaving vulnerable young people unable to perform informed choicesSix teenage boys dressed in tracksuits are sitting in a classroom in a training centre in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Lined up in front of them are bottles of Vimto and Mountain Dew energy drinks – and a number of colourful plastic penises.
The boys, or aged 17 and 18 and on a construction course,are having a condom relay as fragment of a sex education session. It’s a boisterous lesson – the boys crack non-pause jokes and laugh uproariously at each others quips. This is the best class ever,” says one boy, and gasping for air between gales of laughter.
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Source: theguardian.com