Sexual Sciences and Morality

Can someone please tell me what is the need or urgency of giving a child of 4, a lesson on gay relationships? Or anything related to sex? What will be the probable benefit to let the child know that men have sex with men and women have sex with women and they also have sex with each other and vice versa, to this young kid aged 4?

In doing so, is it your intention to shift his energy away from his learning the alphabets and his counting and towards sex and sexuality? Well, it has so happened in a school in Broadstairs, Kent in UK where kids aged just four, I restate the figure FOUR, were given a school assembly about being gay.

The children were even shown pictures of two men lying down together and a record by the gay singer Sir John Elton was also played. Mums and dads who complained about this unfruitful exercise were labeled homophobic.

A mum was concerned that the assembly has confused the kids a lot. She added: “Girls often cuddle each other, but now they are afraid that others think they are gay”. But the head teacher was very comfortable with all this happening in the school and he said that many other parents praised the school for tackling the issue sensitively.

Who told that this was an issue for the four year olds? I don’t even recall what it is like being a kid of four and am sure this is the case with most of us reading this script of blunt remarks. I would ask any one who brands this as a fruitful exercise as to return to their childhood and consider themselves when they were a kid of four.

Did we care anything about sex at that time? Or did any one of us was given lessons on sexuality at this age? But still most of us are performing very well in our emotional and sexual lives and understand and manage the complexities very well. The ones who don’t will always exist no matter what lessons they get and at what age they get it.

What would be kids of four be thinking in his or her mind? Probably, where to get their favourite chocolate bar or their teddy or how to spend maximum time playing and enjoying carefree. Their priorities are not sexual relationships and to understand why men lie together with other men.