Let’s talk about #sex – to four-year-olds | Shirley Haasnoot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/25/sex-education-dutch-children
My son won’t bring home the leaflet “Sex Yes, Worries No”, about the use of contraceptives, until he is at least 10. He wouldn’t be able to read it at the moment anyway. But his teachers will be talking about cuddling, friendship, newborn lambs in the fields and the differences between boys and girls. And his class might be visited by pregnant women and nursing mothers with their babies.
The Netherlands has a lurid reputation abroad when it comes to sex. Everyone knows about the red light district in Amsterdam and legalised prostitution. So it might come as a surprise to some to hear that deep down, the Dutch are very conservative people who take sex seriously. Very seriously, in fact.
