If there are no further points of order, we come now to the 10 minute rule motion for which the honorable Lady has been patiently waiting.

10 minute rumination.

Nadine Dorries.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

I beg to move that leap given to bring in a bill to require schools provide certain additional sex education.

Two girls aged between 13 16 provide such education.

Must include information and invites the benefits of abstinence and sexual activity and for connected purposes.

Mr.

Speaker, I'm sure many people in this house are aware of the broadcast day and Joan Bakewell.

I always got the impression she was like a separate political divide to myself.

However, I was intrigued a year ago to read something that Dame Joan had written in the Radio Times and other newspapers in which she said, But Mary White House, who was the campaigner against declining moral stand on television, was right to fear that sexual embrace.

The 19 sixties with damage society.

Dane Joan Bakewell was a long time fierce opponent of Mary White House, which is why what she said was was very intriguing.

But she's now changed her mind in terms of our opposition, saying that the freedom granted by the introduction of the pillar being abused, resulting in the sexualization of young girls on the prevalence of pornography danger in, said the liberal moved back in the sixties was that sex was pleasurable and wholesome and shouldn't be seen as dirty or wicked.

The pair allowed women to make choices for themselves, of course, but meant making the risk of the wrong choice.

But we all hoped that girls and women would grow to handle the new freedoms wisely.

But then everything came to be about money.

So now sex is about money, too.

Why else?

Sexualized, close the little girls run TV John channels dedicated to naked wives on have sex magazines and shops edging out Serious done.

In fact, in some newsagents.

Now there are more sex magazines available than that, she said.

Our society is such rated in sex as a typical typical glitz comments from the member opposite from the typical.

He just doesn't understand will oppose this.

That would be interesting to see if it will pose.

A man will stand in opposed a bill which is about giving empowerment to young girls, she said.

Our societies saturated in sex a typical primetime hour on TV contains 2.6 references to intercourse 1.2 references to prostitution.

Rape on 4.7 sexual innuendoes.

But moving on from Dane Joan Bakewell, Let's look at some of the examples that are available now.

Prime Mark.

The store, which is frequented by many young girls, including My Own Daughters On, was recently just dies for selling padded bikinis for seven year olds.

Now, without going, it's too much detail.

I'm sure everybody in the house understands why women would buy patted bikinis, but to make them available and to market them and target seven year old girls with parted bikinis seems to be a to be a two.

To epitomize how far the sexualization of young girls has gone within our society.

On the Faith of March explicit videos into 35th March 2010 explicit videos were shown in schools which actually depicted 27 year olds a cartoon graphic of a couple having sexual intercourse.

Now this actually resulted in some Children being removed in schools, which showed those visitors.

It won't be a surprise to any mother in the house, really parent in the house, that she's seven year old Children do not want to see a cartoon of a couple having sexual intercourse.

And I have never yet met a mother, he said to me.

I want my seven year old to see cartoons of couples having sexual intercourse.

So why on earth would schools think it was appropriate to show such videos within the classroom to seven year old Children?

Some Children aren't reporters being frightened and alarmed and disturbed by the videos.

In July 2009 Sheffield N.

H s Trust released into schools to secondary school Children from the age of 11 a pamphlet which told them that sex every day keeps the doctor away.

It also said this, and I quote from the pamphlet.

For too long, experts have concentrate on the need for safe sex and loving relationships.

Alongside this, there was a slogan which said an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.

It also said on this pump it went to 11 year olds.

Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg today and 30 minutes visit activity.

What about sex or masturbation?

Twice a week, there's the conflict going out into a secondary modern school in Sheffield.

We have to ask ourselves whether in the midst of this kind of society with the over sexualization of Children, whether we have got our sex education in schools, right is often argue that compulsory sex education and effective teaching of sakes that safe sex will help to tackle a high pregnancy rate among teenagers.

Andre Children.

Sadly, the evidence suggests that this isn't the case.

The British Medical Journal found that 93% of teenagers he became pregnant had seen a medical professional prior to the pregnancy and 71% of discuss contraception.

In fact, the journal found that teenagers and became pregnant have higher consultation rates than their peers.

Most of the differences owing to consultation on contraception, according to data published by the National City's Office, Statistics into Sorry, this is a lack of sleep, Mr Speaker.

According to data published by the Office for National Statistics in 2007 Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe, so we must be doing something wrong.

This is why I'm bringing this bill today.

I believe the answer to endure constant struggle with the incredibly high rates of teenage sexual activity on underage pregnancies lies in teaching our girls and boys about the option off abstinence the ability to just say no as part of their compulsory sex education at school, I spoke to a 16 year old girl recently who told me, This is very disturbing words.

The thing is, if you reach the age of 18 and you're still a virgin on you, meet somebody, you'd like to be your boyfriend.

He's gonna think you're a freak now That's the reason why I brought this bill, because never does it enter the mind of young teenage girls today who are taught in sex education about safe sex but talked about making their decisions whether or not to have sex on how they feel that day or on their wishes.

Feelings on the wishes of the key words.

But they're not toward you.

Actually, as a young girl are empowered and have the ability to say no, and that is not poor, taught alongside information on making the decision based on their feelings on on their wishes on alongside safe sex and it should be.

It should be as viable option.

We have to thoroughly rig some of the content of sex education, provide in schools and consider whether what is currently be offered is in the best interest of our Children and our society as a whole.

Children learn about puberty and intercourse at the age of seven on about pregnancy and contraception from the age of 11.

Teaching a child at the age of seven to apply a condom on a banana is almost like without telling them.

Actually, you don't have an obligation to go do.

This is always like saying now going Try obviously yourself and none of the stages of the curriculum.

Teachers teachings cover anything about relationships on the option to say no Children.

A tour to have safe sex but not taught to housing.

Does they know girls talk about safe sex but not have to say no to a boyfriend who persist on sexual relationship?

They're given no guidance on this whatsoever, and Alexis The Daily Mail, a 14 year old Jaycee Parkins, and describe the sex education.

She'd been receiving a local secondary school, and this is what she said as a 14 year old girl.

I had to.

I had to attend four talks in the past 91 months from a woman for a plant family planning clinic.

I've been talked three times how to put on a condom, how easily we can acquire condoms free at the clinic, how to recognize if I've got a sexually transmitted disease and to have it treated on that.

I don't need to tell my parents my GP the please anyone else about being provided the contraception or even having abortion.

There was not one mention of abstaining or any discouragement from sex.

For a girl boy to have sex before 16 is unlawful.

However, they're told in school it's unlawful, but it's okay.

You can have the condoms anyway.

They should be told it's unlawful.

You can have the condoms anyway.

But you know, why don't you consider because it's unlawful saying No, I'm waiting until it is lawful but just isn't taught to young girls at school.

Well, fight, which is constantly ignored by society, is that peer pressure is a key contributor to early sexual activity and months of Children.

Our country society is focused on sex, our sex education teach Children how to have sex, not how to say no to sex.

We ignore it at our peril that many girls feel pressurised into having intercourse when they are far too young, when actually what they need to have is their childhood in our sex education programs, we need to promote the notion of abstinence until all the advantages that it brings to self respect, not making relationship mistakes.

It needs to be seen as a safe alternative.

We need to let young girls know that to say no to sex when you're up you're under pressure is a cool thing to do.

It's as cool as learning how to apply a condom.

It's as important as all the other issues that they're taught in sex education.

And I would say, But it has to be alongside everything else so young girls can say, I've been told to say no is that the honorable member have leave to bring in her bill.

Mr Chris Bryant, Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

I note that the honorable lady said that it would be a disgrace or something like that.

If I were to speak on this matter cause I'm a man.

And of course I'm a gay man.

So I'm not exactly an expert on heterosexual sex, nor on sex with girls.

But I would say to her that I think that this is the daft ist piece of legislation that I've seen brought forward.

I agree with many, many of the problems that she's highlighted, not come on to them.

But this is not the peace, the way to solve any of those problems for a start for a start, because it's just about girls.

I said, I'm not an expert, but it seems to me if one of the things you want to tackle his teenage pregnancy, you've got to talk to the boys and the girls.

That seems axiomatic.

Secondly, it's just about 13 to 16 year old.

One of the great distress is that many young people.

When I did a lot of research on this issue in relation to teenage pregnancy or a few years ago, said to me, was that a large number of girls got to their first period without knowing what was happening to their body.

Now I think that proper education in schools, which gives girls on boys a real opportunity to seize hold of their lives and make good decisions for themselves is one that make sure that that kind of education starts long before their first period, and and thirdly, it's because she talks about an abstinence program.

Now, of course, the single most important thing that we can give any child in their education, boy or girl, is the self confidence to be able to make good decisions for themselves on when they've made bad decisions, to be able to stand up for the consequences of those decisions.

And I think we need to do things about Andi how housing is allocated on how we use the the benefit system to make sure that some of those issues are addressed.

But I have to.

But I have to say to her that there is no evidence anywhere in the world that an abstinence program of sex education works in delivering the outcomes that she wants absolutely no evidence it all on.

The third thing is that she refers to sex education.

She she just wants sex education.

She referred to the matter off on you know, the number of youngsters who are told how to put a condom on a banana.

I've never understood why putting a condom on a banana or a cucumber is of any use to anybody.

But but But she's absolutely right insane that if sex education is just about giving people teaching them the mechanics of having sex, then it is effectively an advert.

That's why what I want is, rather than the present legal situation, where the only bit that is obligatory is sex education in other words, the mechanics on teaching them about sexually transmitted infections rather than that there should be proper sex and relationship education, which starts at an early enough age to make a real difference.

Now I say to her, probably the level of teenage pregnancy and my constituency is higher than in hers.

Because if you look across the whole of the country, the map of team of high teenage pregnancy figures is the map off poverty in this country on, I feel absolutely passionately about a desire to try and cut the number of teenage pregnancies.

Indeed, Andi, I've done a great deal of work on trying to do that in my own insurgency.

She referred to the statistics, which is right to point out which show that we have the highest rate in Europe.

It's not just higher than anywhere else.

It's five times higher than in Holland, three times higher than in France and twice what it is in Germany.

And yet when you look at countries like Holland, France and Germany, they have much better sex and relationship education in their schools, which starts at a much younger age and is much more exploited on.

That's the difference.

That's part of the difference.

Now they're made.

There are lots of other elements to trying to rectify this as well.

But for many of us on this side of the house, I think one of the reasons that the issue of teenage pregnancy is so important is because it's it's not just wealth that's inherited in this country.

It's poverty that all too often is inherited in this country because off in many cases, because of teenage pregnancy, now there are lots of teenage moms who are absolutely wonderful.

They triumph against the odds.

But a lot of the babies that are born to teenage moms are much smaller.

They have more health problems.

They are three times more likely to go on if it's a girl to be a teenage mom themselves on.

So we perpetuate and perpetuate and perpetuate the cycle of poverty, in particular in certain parts of the country.

So that's why I believe that we should have far better sex and religion relationship in education.

In schools.

There are other areas on instantly just on the figures.

I'm delighted that a Labour government, through resolute work with hatred between the Department for Education and the Department for Health, managed to cut the figures significantly in this country.

And actually, if you look at the history of the figures, the time when they grew most dramatically was under Mrs Thatcher and we've now seen this last year.

The figures for 2009 show that this is the first time since 1980 that the figures have have bean way.

We've got to a record low.

I'm not complacent about that at all, because I think there is a great deal more to do, and I have my own 10 minute rule bill, which is in the sort of Charon Bang situation which is probably not likely to become as unlikely to become legislation, is the honorable ladies.

But There are other associative problems which I think we need to address.