Does Davina go too far in sex education show?

13 April 2012

Davina McCall and Channel 4 have come under attack from family and media watchdogs over an explicit sex education programme.

In Let's Talk Sex, Miss McCall accompanies four teenagers and two school heads to a Dutch youth centre.

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The group sits in on sex education lessons in which children as young as four are taught about homosexuality and shown cartoons of various sex acts.

At one point in the show, Miss McCall, a mother of three, unrolls a condom over a prosthetic sex aid in front of two schoolchildren.

The programme is due to be broadcast later this month at 8pm - an hour before the watershed. It aims to highlight a connection between poor sex education and the high rate of teenage pregnancy in Britain.

But pressure group Family and Youth Concern is appealing to Channel 4 to withdraw the show, claiming it is "misleading" and "dishonest".

"The explicit approach to sex education featured in this programme is not at all typical of Dutch schools, but represents the extreme end of a very broad spectrum," said spokesman Norman Wells.

"They omit to mention that in the years following the introduction of compulsory sex education classes in Dutch schools, teenage pregnancy rates went up rather than down."