Children as young as five should be taught about gay sex, an education project has said
By Steve Doughty
Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.
Heads of the project have set themselves a goal of ‘creating primary classrooms where queer sexualities are affirmed and celebrated’.
The ambition was revealed in documents prepared for the No Outsiders project run by researchers from universities and backed with £600,000 of public money provided by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The stated purpose of the project – which is operating in 14 primary schools – is to stop bullying and prejudice aimed at homosexuals.
However, at a seminar at Exeter University tomorrow, supporters of the group will go beyond the anti-bullying agenda and discuss ‘pleasure and desire in educational contexts’.
A document prepared for the seminar and couched in convoluted academic jargon says: ‘The team is concerned to interrogate the desexualisation of children’s bodies, the negation of pleasure and desire in educational contexts, and the tendency to shy away from discussion of (sexual) bodily activity in No Outsiders project work.
‘The danger of accusations of the corruption of innocent children has led team members to make repeated claims that this project is not about sex or desire – and that it is therefore not about bodies.
‘Yet, at a very significant level, that is exactly what it is about and to deny this may have significant negative implications for children and young people.’
No Outsiders is led by researchers from Sunderland University and also involves academics at the Institute of Education and Exeter University. Books, puppet shows and plays are used to teach children about same-sex relationships.
During the project, the seminar paper says, its members have ‘challenged each other to go beyond imagined possibilities into queer practice’.
The seminar will ‘question the taken-for-granted of the supposedly sexless, bodiless and desire-less primary classroom’ and examine ‘the place of the research team members’ own bodies, desires and pleasures in this research’.
The discussions provoked a furious reaction from critics of the homosexual rights agenda. Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute said: ‘When an adult who is working in a primary school suggests that children should explore their sexuality, that should result in a complaint to the police.’
Patricia Morgan, author of studies of family life and gay adoption, said: ‘The proposal is that primary school classrooms should be turned into gay saunas. This is about homosexual practice in junior schools. The idiots who repealed Section 28 should consider that this is where it has got them.’
Project leader Dr Elizabeth Atkinson said the seminar had no connection with No Outsiders work in classrooms. ‘The seminar is part of a long-standing academic debate and has nothing to do with schools,’ she said. ‘It has no connection with sex education.’
Section 28, the law which banned the promotion of homosexuality in state schools, was repealed five years ago. Current guidance on sex education says it should not promote sexual orientation or sexual activity.
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wil // September 17, 2008 at 1:07 am
“Celebrate” is another word that should be retired for awhile. I was going to say “banned,’ but that would make me a reactionary radical or something.
pygmy // September 17, 2008 at 10:18 am
The Strange, Unexplored Overlap Between Homosexuality and Fascism
Many of the leading European fascists of the past thirty years have been gay. Progressive gay people like me shouldn’t ignore this
By Johann Hari
24 June, 2004
http://aqueertribe.tribe.net/thread/baa10a48-8a0a-4d1f-90f2-7da4ed59d1be
And this Gaystapo has an icon to revere, an alternative Fuhrer to worship: the lost gay fascist leader Ernst Rohm. Along with Adolf Hitler, Rohm was the founding father of Nazism. Born to conservative Bavarian civil servants in 1887, Ernst Rohm’s life began – in his view – in the “heroic” trenches of the First World War. Like so many of the generation who formed the Nazi Party, he was nurtured by and obsessed with the homoerotic myth of the trenches – heroic, beautiful boys prepared to die for their brothers and their country.
It was Rohm who first spotted the potential of a soap-box ranter called Adolf Hitler. He saw him as the demagogue he needed to mobilize support for his plan to overthrow democracy and establish a “soldier’s state” where the army ruled untrammelled. He introduced the young fascist to local politicians and military leaders; they knew him for many years as “Rohm’s boy.” Gay historian Frank Rector notes, “Hitler was, to a substantial extent, Rohm’s protégé.” Rohm integrated Hitler into his underground movement to overthrow the Weimar Republic.
liam mateer // September 17, 2008 at 11:35 am
This is sick why would a 5 year old want to know about gay sex . this is the destruction of childhood innocence , the people pushing this pervets agenda pedophiles, who now run the education system, do parents even know what is being pushed on the children. 5 year olds should be allowed their childhood. I am worried that the sex educators are now pushing a sick agenda using our children as pawns i am disgusted that this sick agenda is not being stopped. These criminals must be stopped before its to late and a generation of 5 year olds are taught to have oral sex and anal sex i am sick to my stomach
True // September 21, 2008 at 7:13 pm
This is truly one of the sickest things I’ve ever heard in my life. To even consider something like this is sheer madness and consumed in the greatest form of evil and perversion. No child should be taught anything about sex PERIOD! The group funding this seeks to destroy the innocence of youth and it’s disgusting!!! Anyone who supports this should be ashamed of themselves and will someday have to answer for their horrible choices.
liam mateer // March 30, 2009 at 7:53 am
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO REALISE THAT PEOPLE IN GOV WHO WANT TO TEACH ABOUT GAY SEX TO 5 YEAR OLDS ARE MOLESTORS AND SEX GROOMERS OF CHILDREN ITS OBVIOUS UNLESS WE HAVE LOST OUR MINDS. END GOV SPONSORED PEDOPHELIA
pjwalker911 // March 30, 2009 at 8:02 am
End government period. And start a new one, run by the people instead of the elite pedos.