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Don't know about the magazines - we have really read them much neither myself nor my daughter now 18 ---------- but have you seen the pop videos - it's like porn with a few clothes on!!! or maybe its just me getting older and jealous cos i don't look like that anymore lol :-) - Did I ever look like that? .... G xxx

I must comment on the above comments, having brought up three daughters and two sons. When I was a child the only pornography small boys could get hold of was a pack of cards with "tastefully" nude models on. Today most parents bring home a newspaper with nude models on pages 3 or 7 or (in the Sport) every page. It is important for children to be aware that there is nothing shameful about the naked human body, but that is an entirely different subject from sex. I know that children start to become curious at varying ages, and it is my opinion, and only my opinion, that Parents are the ones who could determine when their children are old enough to start having Sex Education Lessons earlier than, perhaps 13 or 14 at which time it should be a compulsory subject for long enough for the message to get through. I see no benefit in teaching prepubescent children. A few, but not many, years ago when I was involved with Community Activities I was Chair of our local Police Liaison Committee. We had representatives from a variety of organisations including a couple of Youth Outreach Workers. One meeting they told us how they had spent an evening at a Youth Disco in our area, and had spent some of the evening in the toilets, teaching the young girls how to orally instal a condom. I was horrified, but the other committee members took it as a matter of course. And as for Music Videos, I really enjoy watching mtv with the sound off. Need I say more? Jim

jim, you say teach sex ed around 13/14 but everyones different,as i said previously my eldest daughter is almost 10 and is beginning to go through puberty,do i wait till shes older.they don't need to be told explicit things but need to be aware of their bodies,my mum told me that she was never told about periods and when hers came she was half scared to death,that can't be good. your comment about condoms is horrifying,they need the right kind of info, karen