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What Would Happen If There Was No Sex Education In British Schools?

What Would Happen If There Was No Sex Education In British Schools?

Let's talk about sex, baby. Actually, no.

Josh Teal

Josh Teal

I have little to no memory of any lengthy sex education at school. When you're brought up Catholic you think sex is just a conspiracy theory. You hear Chinese whispers about other schools getting to test out condoms on bananas and watch soft-core porn but you never get to do it yourself, 'cause condoms and Catholicism go about as well together as a toaster and a bathtub.

I never had 'the talk' with my parents either, so everything I know now I learned on my own time. And I've come out alright. But I don't know if this can be said for everyone else out there.

David Cameron's recent null on compulsory sex education is bad. Straight up. Not informing people from a young age about health, safety and consent can only lead to terrible things.

With this in mind, we have to consider a Britain with no sex education at all. Because if it isn't compulsory, and schools don't have the resources to offer it off their own back, then there's a high chance it will fade away completely. And if that happens, how could it affect our nation's young people?

Well, for starters, porn would have an even greater influence than it does already. Most teenage boys watch porn. A survey last year found that a tenth of 12-13 year olds think they're 'addicted' to it. And, without proper sex education, they're going to view porn as an accurate - and the only - representation of sex, which it definitely isn't.

Imagine it. A world where youngsters glean everything they know about sex from smut. When this sex-ed bereft generation leave school, they'll take up plumbing and delivery jobs, with no merit or qualification, just because that's the career trajectory every porn plot implores a man to follow.

No young lad in 10 years' time will think plumbing involves anything other than walking into a mansion in California and being coerced into adultery by a woman with huge tits. On top of this, young people won't know the boundaries of sex.

They might start shagging on buses - more than they already do - and roller coasters; waiting for a table in a restaurant, getting money out of a cash machine; at the football, down the pub, at funerals, at the dentist. Maybe that's a little extreme, but it's a possibility when sex only exists in the context of other people watching.

The consequences of sex would change in the sense that no one would think of the consequences at all. Contraception will become E=mc2 and every girl will be pregnant. Moreover, they won't know what pregnancy is - no idea how to prevent it, no idea what to do while the thing is growing inside them. Labour will not be recognised and most babies will be born on the toilet - if not then flushed away.

A Britain without sex education will turn a generation into porn-crazed maniacs, who churn out babies as fast as they give birth to horrifying new strains of STDs.

Or at least it could.

Sure, sex education in schools is important, but there are other factors that can make young people reevaluate their attitude towards fucking. According to one study, the MTV series 16 and Pregnant, which followed the lives of teens on the brink of parenthood, led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births in America in the 18 months following the show's debut.

That's pretty impressive stuff. Even without sex education, it looks like there are still ways to get young people to make sensible decisions about sex: Scare the shit out of them.

There you go, Dave. If you won't make sex-ed compulsory in schools, then at least TV might prevent teens from making terrible decisions.

Words by Josh Teal

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Topics: Sex Education, david cameron