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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 8:05a.m.

Fourteen-year-old girls were taught how to put condoms on a plastic penis

Fourteen-year-old girls were taught how to put condoms on a plastic penis

Students as young as 12 are being taught how to put on condoms and masturbate as part of school sex education, some parents claim.

Concerned parents have been calling talkback radio with worries that teachers are going too far in explaining the birds and the bees to their adolescent children.

In some cases, 12-year-old boys were being taught about oral sex and how to play with a girl's private parts, while 14-year-old girls were taught how to put condoms on a plastic penis, the callers to Newstalk ZB said.

One girl came home from school saying "she had been applying yucky and sticky condoms to a plastic black penis", the parent said, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald.

A father said his son, who attended a boys' school, was told he could play with his girlfriend's clitoris if "she's okay with it".

Secondary Principals' Association president Patrick Walsh admitted sex education had become more graphic and he too had "some difficulty" with it.

But Family Planning said international research had proven teaching children about sex early delayed the first time they have sex.

"It reduces the number of partners they will have, it reduces the frequency of intercourse ... and it also increases condom and contraception use, so programs are particularly effective if they begin before young people have sex," Family Planning health promotion director Frances Bird told the newspaper.

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15 Oct 2011 09:40a.m.

Martha B wrote:

There is absolutely nothing dirty or wrong about using a model of an erect penis to learn proper technique. God made our parts and how can the condom be applied if it isn't erect after all. It's being done in a supporting, nurturing, educational environment as it should be. Frankly, becoming familiar and comfortable with touching and dressing an erect penis is probably the best way to ensure they will stay in control and do it properly when the real situation arises. I wish the U.S. was as intelligent about sex education- we might get a handle on our STDs.

04 Oct 2011 06:52a.m.

muhammed shahid wrote:

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20 Sep 2011 08:29p.m.

Robbie wrote:

I'm so happy with so many peoples opinions on here, yes! Teach sex! and make sure you do teach it young, kids need to know early, and the information needs to be staggered, so the very basics of the human body maybe at 10, then at 11 a bot more, 12, a bit more, but by 13 you need to start hitting hard with the harsh truth about STDs and pregnancy, proper, factual information, parents don't know it all, so its better to come home with the truth, than a 40 year old myth. If I had a kid, I would be asking the school when they will be teaching it and for copies of all the information, information is power, and information isn't causing kids to have sex, your parenting will help make them keep their legs closed, and the information will help them make the right choices when they do have sex.

19 Sep 2011 04:22p.m.

Michele wrote:

And hahahaaha, sorry, but I don't think masturbation ever had to be 'taught' in the history of the world??? How to spell it maybe, but I think doing it actually comes quite naturally (excuse the pun). It's the teaching that it is 'bad' that causes most of the problems faced above!! Teaching sex-ed, and instilling kids with a heap of self-respect and respect for others (and possibly some skills to stay sober), is what will solve a lot of society's problems around these issues.

19 Sep 2011 04:00p.m.

Craig wrote:

New Zealand has a high rate of teenage pregnancy and it needs to be reduced through full and frank discussion of the facts of life. One wonders if the latest 'outcry' isn't orchestrated by the fundamentalist so-called 'family' lobby yet again...?

19 Sep 2011 03:44p.m.

matt wrote:

ha! i think this is funny some parents saying its to much for there lil ones. i say build a bridge unless they have the the cohones to tell there own kids as detalied as the schools would i dont think the teachers would like to talk about it but who else is going to tell them whats what. if you dont like it lump it like the rest

19 Sep 2011 03:35p.m.

joe wrote:

this is just funny, in reality, there likely to have sex before there 16, so best to educate them while you can..

19 Sep 2011 02:46p.m.

nigel wrote:

Good on you Jan, you go get em, you are the salt of the earth, we need more people like you, no masturbating in your house, praise the lord! And the rest of you can cut it out!

19 Sep 2011 02:43p.m.

Warwick wrote:

It is vitally important that young people get a proper sex education. My only concerns would be that 1) the reports are only hearsay, and the kids may not actually be getting this important education, and 2) the penis with which the girls are reportedly being taught is plastic, which may not prepare them fully for the real thing. I wonder why there is such concern about the penis being black -- is this a racial thing? Quite likely, given the type of person who is likely to complain on this issue!

19 Sep 2011 02:27p.m.

Mia wrote:

Well thats what heppens when you have 12 year old girls poping out babies... they have to be taught somehow and obviously the parents aren't going into enough detail so someone has to do it... have to try and educate these young people as they are already doing it any way...