Advice on emotions and relationships should be made a compulsory part of sex education classes, according to the NSPCC.
The charity says its Childline is receiving nearly 50 calls a day from children who feel pressurised to have sex and lack basic knowledge about relationships, pregnancy and puberty.
“Children are in the dark about the biological and emotional aspects of sex,” said Sue Minto from Childline.
Some have criticised sex education for concentrating on purely functional aspects of reproduction, claiming that leaving explanations to parents often fails, for the simple reason that if their parents understood anything at all about relationships, sex or pregnancy, most of the children would never have been born in the first place.
We spoke to some children online about sex. Our case comes up next Tuesday.
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