Sex education: a new moral panic?

MP Miriam Cates believes relationship and sex education in schools is a ‘safeguarding scandal’

Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, on College Green, Westminster
Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, on College Green, Westminster
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Graphic lessons on oral sex. Instructions about how to choke your partner safely. Discussions of the 72 possible genders. This, according to the Tory MP Miriam Cates, is what passes for RSE (relationships and sex education) in British schools today.

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