When does sex ed become sex abuse?

Dana Hanley sent this link to the members of the Life, Liberty, Property bloggers: AIDS Prevention among Schoolchildren. It's a post at The Brussels Journal from December of last year. By the title of the post, you'd think it would be something along the lines of North American sex ed classes given to high school students. It's a bit different in Europe:

In Belgium the World Aids prevention day is a day of celebration for many. First and foremost for those who earn a living by it, especially the many government funded social workers who never need to go near an AIDS patient but spend their time "increasing awareness" among the masses. One powerful group in this respect is the Belgian organisation SENSOA (abbreviated from: "Increasing Awareness about Sexually Transmitted Diseases").

Because AIDS is such a terrible thing, no-one dares to question or criticise these people's activities. Their funds increase with every AIDS campaign and the government gives them any other convenience their work may require. Such as access to the nation's schoolchildren through the school curriculum and extracurricular activities.

Most of us would agree that educating people about the dangers of AIDS is a worthwhile process: it's certainly more dangerous than previous sexually transmitted diseases and combatting ignorance about how the disease is spread can help to slow down the rate of infection. That doesn't appear to be the main purpose of the current campaign, however:

"We want to teach the children that willies come in all shapes and sizes. There are hands-on activities for six-year olds, with crooked, straight and circumcised willies", the organisers tell another newspaper. Yet another paper: "Onto a doll covered in Velcro they can stick bodyparts at will, choosing between small breasts or sagging tits, between big willies and small ones that stick out in all directions." The local councillor for education proudly proclaims: "We have no taboos here.

Maybe they should have a few . . . if this was being done "retail" — one adult introducing six-year olds to this sort of sexual "teaching" — that one adult would be regarded as a sexual deviant and promptly removed from society. If it's being done by agents of the state, it's apparently completely innocent and healthy.

A journalist from Antwerp writes: "By turning blocks the children can put together a mum or dad of their own. Naked or dressed. Or they can make two mums or two dads. All types of relationships are shown. When you peep through a hole you can see two bears buttering bread and much more [from a Dutch nursery rhyme along the lines of "the animals went in two by two"]. And you can see the sleeping beauty having safe sex with her prince." "And through the peephole you also get to admire various sexual positions: the two bears illustrate that it doesn't always need to be a man on a woman," adds another.

And just why are six-year olds being provided with explicit information about sexual activities? Is there an epidemic of AIDS infection among the preschool set in Belgium? Are there orgies happening during nap time at the kindergarten classes?

And they go on: "In the orgasm corner you can explore Ken and Barbie's erogenous zones with the click of a mouse on a computerscreen." "The best part is the little room where the children can experience it all themselves. You can hear the sounds and watch a film showing the mouths of people in orgastic climax." "Anyone who is at secondary school gets a condom as an 'entry ticket.' So they can practise how to use it on an artificial penis at the end of the exhibition."

I don't tend to think of myself as a prude, but does it strike anyone else that this is, um, not to be too judgemental about it, but WRONG????