Alan, kiddie porn may well have been around for a long time but it was certainly never deemed acceptable or healthy. In fact men who indulged in this pastime were labelled sick, perverted deviants.
So let's not try and pretend otherwise just to suit the perversions of a minority.
As for teaching young people that frequent casual sex is either emotionally healthy or safe, well obviously you haven't seen the latest figures on Std's, in particular, those that are now becoming antibiotic resistant. Nor have you seen the articles written by doctors on the physical damage occurring from frequent anal sex.
The effect of porn on young people is now starting to show a lot of negative effects, especially the view that violent, degrading sex is normal and is leading to distorted expectations in young people, something backed up by psychologists and therapists.
Children are not naturally sexual beings unless they are exposed to sexual activity and
the increasing number of boys committing rape at ages as young as ten is testimony to the negative effects of over sexualisation of children.

What else would you expect if you send your child to a state-sponsored school? Those who provide the money are obviously also those who set the curriculum.

Politicians discovered that the more citizens indulge in sex, the less vigour they have left to revolt against them.

@ Big nana, you're making stuff up. Whatever you may discuss at your local church group is bye the bye. Lets actually deal with the facts.

"Children are not naturally sexual beings unless they are exposed to sexual activity"

Gee there would be a large number of doctors and biologists that would disagree.

I think the religious nuts would love to wind the clock back to them having free reign to rape our kids and teach everyone else that sex is bad and you shouldn't do unless your trying to have a baby.

If any of the religious posters on this site that are opposed to the safe schools training, can provide a link to a respected non religious body that deals with childhood development that has significant concerns with the safe schools program that would be great.

I bet they can't.

It seems to me that this whole campaign is run by paedophiles as a
recruitment exercise.
It would certainly make their grooming a lot easier.

Cobber:

Your religious bigotry is showing. Everyone who has a disagreement with the safe schools program must automatically be religious? Or else they must be able to point to a "respected non religious body that deals with childhood development".

They are not allowed to have an opinion themselves without it being supported by some body? Their own experiences as parents or teachers or just human beings are not worthy of being heard? What are you afraid of - the truth emerging?

You should take your bigotry where it belongs. Dismissing arguments before they have even been heard just on the basis of them coming from religious people or non-religious people without some authority is bigotry plain and simple. Who would listen to someone arguing in favour of safe schools who obviously has such bigotry ingrained within them? Any sort of bigot is not the right person to be listened to when the well-being of children is at stake.

Either stick to the arguments about the safe schools program or shut up. This is not the place to be airing you petty bigotry. We are here to discuss important issues and not your neurotic need to deride religious people.

Well expressed phanto. I score your sentiment 10 out of 10.

With regard to the article, I agree with the writer. In my opinion the Safe (Sex) Schools program should be shut down and those involved should be prosecuted as paedophiles.

End of story.