Posted on 08/25/2011 4:02:41 PM PDT by wagglebee
BASEL, August 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kindergarten children in Basel, Switzerland will be presented this year with fabric models of human genitalia in a “sex box” to teach them that “contacting body parts can be pleasurable.”
The kit for teachers to give sex-education lessons to primary school children uses models and recommends having children massage each other or to rub themselves with warm sand bags, accompanied by soft music, according to The Local, a Swiss newspaper in English.
“Children should be encouraged to develop and experience their sexuality in a pleasurable way,” Daniel Schneider, a deputy kindergarten rector for Basel who helped develop the sex ed curriculum along with experts, had said earlier this year.
He added, “It’s important that they learn to say no if they don’t want to be touched in a certain area.”
Education officials who have reportedly been flooded with over 3000 complaints from outraged parents have agreed to change the program’s name, but will do nothing to stop the materials from being distributed in schools, according to The Local.
Christoph Eymann, Basel education minister and member of the liberal democrat party (LDP), told the paper SonntagsBlick, “It was no doubt stupid to call it a ‘sex box’ – we will change that.
“But we will stick to our goal: to get across to children that sexuality is something natural. Without forcing anything upon them or taking anything away from their parents.”
Eymann said he understood that one line in the program, “touching can be enjoyed heartily,” could be misconstrued, but added, “It is not about ‘touch me, feel me.’
“We want to tell the children that there is contact that they may find pleasurable, but some that they should say ‘no’ to. Kids can unfortunately can become victims of sexual violence already at playschool age.”
Children should ideally be taught about sex at home, Eymann said, but since children lived in an “oversexualised society” in which pornography can be reached by young children through the internet, education officials need to respond to the realities of the day.
“Some primary school children,” he said, “know the TV schedule until 2am. We would like to offer these children firm support, which is often not available in the family. The box is only an aid. I trust the teachers to approach the material with care.”
Eymann has opposed requests from parents to exempt their children from the lessons, saying the government needs to use the schools to have unrestricted access to children.
“Primary school may be the only big audience that our society has,” he said. “The shared values that it teaches are very important. I would definitely like to keep this. The explanatory lesson can be portrayed in a way that doesn’t offend.”
Pro-family leaders in Europe have expressed their horror at the idea of presenting five year-old children with the program.
Daniel Trappitsch of the Citizens for Citizens association called the idea a “catastrophic development.” “Sex education, sure, but it shouldn’t been done this early and it certainly shouldn’t be obligatory,” he said. His group said they would fight the proposal.
Eymann said, but since children lived in an “oversexualised society”/
By all means let’s not stop the oversexualizing of our children, let’s just teach them to enjoy it. S/
Pedophiles teaching children. Any parent going along with this deserves to have that child taken away. They must hate innocence with a passion. God help us.
This is recruiting, legalized and normalized by the state.
What the hell is WRONG with these people?! Is this entire society completely INSANE??
It's exactly the same in the US. Courts have ruled that parents have no right to exempt their children from any public school instruction. Some states/districts allow exceptions, but they don't have to.
Europe is dying, largely because it has long abandoned objective standards of law and morality in favor of self-abasement and Hedonism. The forced sexualization of children is but a symptom of the death-throes of a culture whose highest values have ceased to reflect those necessary to preserve human life and dignity. It is happening in America, too, but unlike our European brethren, we still have time to reverse course. Their culture is unlikely to survive this century.
You beat me to it.
Believe me, the millstone is there, they just won’t see it until the end.
I have seen libertarian websites that support doing this (brainwashing, desensitizing kids to sex, etc) at home.
Because pedophiles want there subjects ready for their advances....
Insanity is not merely “doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result”. It is doing self-destructive things and expecting happiness and well-being to result.
because it takes time to make kids think sex with adults is normal
This is absurd! Every child knows that touching down there is “pleasurable”. Parents certainly know this and teach their kids to not “do that” in public. The schools teaching these things to 5 year old kids is sick. When a child whips it out in class and starts spanking the monkey what will the teacher say? “Stop that!” “But Mrs. Brown, YOU told us it was OK!”
This reads like satire...please tell me this is satire!
Education is regulated at the Canton level in Switzerland. Homeschooling is allowed in some Cantons, and private schools are also regulated at the Canton level. Private schools include religious schools.
A quick look suggests that homeschools have to use government-mandated curriculum; whether that includes genital-fondling is not stated. It’s not clear what requirements are placed on private schools.
What is the Swiss word for “EWWWW!”?
Stuff like this makes American schools almost look good. Almost.
I guess it’s going to be exactly like Brave New World. Instead of recess, kids will have “sex play,” or whatever Huxley called it.
Nope - not even close. This is far, far worse.
Thanks. I can’t believe that genital-fondling is going to be accepted by non-public schools. This is completely ghastly.
It seems unlikely. Private schools tend to succeed economically because they provide a rigorous academic education rather than the, “Why don’t we get drunk and scr*w?” of the public schools. They’ll lose customers if they waste time and resources on infant sex exploration.
And beyond the economic points, surely most Swiss parents are also disgusted and would never stand for this in a school for which they’re paying cash.
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