U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds

[Wiener]

NEW YORK —  The United Nations is recommending that children as young as five receive mandatory sexual education that would teach even prekindergartens about masturbation and topics like gender violence.

The U.N.'s Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a 98-page report in June offering a universal lesson plan for kids ranging in age from 5-18, an
"informed approach to effective sex, relationships" and HIV education that they say is essential for "all young people."

The U.N. insists the program is "age appropriate," but critics say it's exposing kids to sex far too early, and offers up abstract ideas — like "transphobia" — they might not even understand.

"At that age they should be learning about ... the proper name of certain parts of their bodies," said Michelle Turner, president of Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, "certainly not about masturbation."

Turner was disturbed by UNESCO's plans to explain to children as young as nine about the safety of legal abortions, and to advocate and "promote the right to and access to safe abortion" for everyone over the age of 15.

"This is absurd," she told FOXNews.com.

The UNESCO report, called "International Guidelines for Sexuality Education," separates children into four age groups: 5-to-8-year-olds, 9-to-12-year-olds, 12-to-15-year-olds and 15-to-18-year-olds.

Under the U.N.'s voluntary sex-ed regime, kids just 5-8 years old will be told that "touching and rubbing ones genitals is called masturbation" and that private parts "can feel pleasurable when touched by oneself."

• Click here to see the report.

By the time they're 9 years old, they'll learn about "positive and negative effects of 'aphrodisiacs," and wrestle with the ideas of "homophobia, transphobia and abuse of power."

At 12, they'll learn the "reasons for" abortions — but they'll already have known about their safety for three years. When they're 15, they'll be exposed to direct "advocacy to promote the right to and access to safe abortion."

Child health experts say they are wary of teaching about the sticky topic of abortion, but stress that as long as messages stay age-appropriate, educating kids at a younger age helps better steer them into adulthood.

"The adults are more leery of [early sex-ed] than the kids are," said Dr. Jennifer Hartstein, a child psychiatrist in New York. "Our own fears sometimes prevent us from being as open and honest with our kids as possible."

Hartstein, however, who didn't see much harm in explaining basic concepts that kids of all ages will have questions about, was baffled by some of the ideas the U.N. hoped to introduce to kids as young as 5 years old, who will be taught about "gender roles, stereotypes and gender-based violence."

"I want to know how you teach that to a 5-year-old," Hartstein told FOXNews.com.

Despite those challenges, the U.N. insists that "in a world affected by HIV and AIDS ... there is an imperative to give children and young people the knowledge, skills and values to understand and make informed decisions."

UNESCO officials said the guidelines were "co-authored by two leading experts in the field of sexuality education" — Dr. Doug Kirby, an adolescent sexuality expert, and Nanette Ecker, the former director of international education and training at the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.

Their report was based on a "rigorous review" of sex-ed literature, "drawing upon 87 studies from around the world," said Mark Richmond, director of UNESCO's Division for the Coordination of U.N. Priorities in Education, in an emailed statement.

Richmond defended teaching about masturbation as "age-appropriate" because even in early childhood, "children are known to be curious about their bodies." Their lessons, he added, would hopefully help kids "develop a more complex understanding of sexual behaviour" as they grow into adults.

But Michelle Turner, of Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, said that such roles should be left up to parents, and worried that children were being exposed to too much information too soon.

"Why can't kids be kids anymore?" she said.


If this is tone of the great things about going global then the rest of the earth can have it, but keep this crap out of America.  Teaching children to play with themselves, really is this all they are going to have time for?  We aren't ever gonna get the jobs back so we create a world of fing perverts?  What is wrong with these people today?

[lexiconic]

If this is tone of the great things about going global then the rest of the earth can have it, but keep this crap out of America.  Teaching children to play with themselves, really is this all they are going to have time for?  We aren't ever gonna get the jobs back so we create a world of fing perverts?  What is wrong with these people today?

You know, I read through the document - which can be found here, and I didn't find anything unusually disturbing about it. Children are not "taught" to masturbate. They do it. From the moment babies gain hand control, they begin exploring their bodies. There is nothing unnatural or immoral about it.

What Fox news didn't mention, and it's not surprising, considering that it's Fox news, is the wealth of other information outlined in the document. The topic of masturbation consisted of one small section surrounded by many others that focus primarily upon safety, personal privacy, appropriate vs. not appropriate touching, promotion of good body image, respect of others, respect of others privacy, staying healthy, families, the concept of friendship vs. love, and so on.

Teaching children about healthy and responsible sexual behavior does not make them into perverts, and it certainly doesn't occupy a disproportionate amount of their whole learning experience.

[Wiener]

By bringing this into mainstream they are stepping on toes.  This is a parents job to teach their children about sex, relationships, and how to travel through life.  It isn't up to the UN, schools, or any other entity.


You know if your child is straight or not. I had questioned my oldests orientation from the time he was two.  Never to him, but inside I knew he wasn't going to be straight.  My sister even told me I spoke of it once with my Mom.  Mom talked to her about it apparently.   My Mom passed when my oldest was very young.   That day he told me I knew what was coming before it came out of his mouth.  I had hoped his whole life I would be wrong, but I wasn't on that one.  Parents see what they want to in their children, they can either see the person that is there, or the one they want them to be.

I know kids play with themselves.  Some do, some don't to me that just gives a clue to what you will have to face when they hit puberty.  You know how teens are, if they want it they will just go and get it, with no thought of the outcome.  If a parent has problems talking to their children about sex and all it's entanglements, they just need some help.  Not someone stepping in and doing the job for them.

[RobinQuillonsHair]

This is how liberals really envision sex education in our schools

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMlZSKEu-Y