Freelance sex education is a thing in UK schools. The results are what you’d expect.

Providers of sex education in schools are teaching children that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal.

Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found.

One organisation encouraged pupils to demonstrate where they like to touch themselves sexually, in a practise criticised as “sex abuse” by campaigners.

And everyone else with a functioning brain.

Relationship and sex education (RSE) became compulsory in English secondary schools in 2020, with many contracting out the teaching. Since then an industry has sprung up of providers who produce resources and go into schools to teach sex education and gender issues.

With, apparently, no filters or oversight or questions or any other form of caution, just “Have at it, thanks very much, send us the invoice.”

Staff do not need education or child development qualifications and there is no professional register or regulation of their curriculum.

Bring on the groomers!

One organisation, Bish, is an online guide to sex and relationships for children aged over 14. It is written by Justin Hancock, who teaches sex education in schools and provides teacher training on sex education.

Ok, so what does Google offer us in order to learn more about Justin Hancock? His Twitter, for one thing, so I discover he has me blocked even though this is the first I’ve heard of him. He must use The List, so that tells us one thing about him.

“Bish” has a website, with an about page packed with words about it and him (the two are one and the same really).

My name is Justin Hancock

Yes, my name does have the word cock in it. Lol! I do all the posts (apart from the guest bloggers), answer the questions, do the drawings and the really badly animated videos. I wrote this bit and this bit.

I’m a qualified and experienced sex educator

I’m a qualified youth worker and sexual health trainer. I’ve worked with young people since 1994 and I’ve been doing sex and relationships education since 1999. You can see my linkedin profile here if you want to see the kinds of work I’ve done. As you can see I’m one of the leading experts in the field of sex and relationships education. I’m also now a member of the World Association for Sexual Health.

Yebbut qualified how? Where, by whom, with what credentials? He never says. I think if there were anything to say he would say it, so I think by “qualified” he means self-qualified. He decided he was qualified so now he’s qualified, because he says so.

Back to the Times article:

The website features a question from a 14-year-old girl having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male. She states that she is worried about becoming pregnant because they are not using contraception and are using the “withdrawal” method. In his response Hancock, who describes himself as a freelance sex and relationships educator, said that “your risks of pregnancy are very, very low”, a statement described as “dangerously reckless” by campaigners. He also failed to mention that the relationship was illegal and advised using lubricant during anal sex.

Dangerously reckless and decidedly wrong according to all of human history.

In another post on the site, a reader wrote to say that she felt “dirty” after being coerced into having sex for money. Hancock replied: “There are many many people doing sex work who do enjoy what they do — even if they don’t necessarily enjoy the sex. It can be a really difficult job but many people find it rewarding — just like other jobs.

“This is especially true if sex workers mainly have good clients, which I don’t think you do. If you did want to continue, maybe you could get better clients?”

Aw, brilliant, problem solved. What a good thing she asked him! She went out and got better clients that very day and has been one happy sex worker ever since. Guy’s a genius.

In a post about “kink”, Bish links to a blog that provides a list of sexual activities including using manacles and irons, whips, swinging and beating.

Nothing risky about that, no sir. I hope he encourages the kids to experiment with choking, that’s lots of fun.

Tanya Carter, spokeswoman for Safe Schools Alliance and an early years practitioner, said: “We are very much in favour of sex education but it should be for the benefit of children — learning about rights, how to protect themselves, and how to get help if someone is abusing them. It should not be about promoting prostitution and abuse to already vulnerable children.

“We don’t think Bish or Justin Hancock should be anywhere near children because he clearly doesn’t understand child protection. It’s completely indefensible what he’s been promoting to children and some of it is verging on a criminal offence.”

But he’s an expert, he says so himself.