That reprehensible Thatcherism Section 28 is being repealed, which demonstrates again that Britain is much better than the US. BBC News Online announces this with a very tasteful photo of two men snogging. The Telegraph article, on the other hand, concludes with a bizarre frothy santorum^*-like passage claiming schoolchildren are being presented with hardcore wife-swapping S&M pornography in the guise of sex education. Go on, read it. I dare you.

Tory Baroness Blatch proposed the replacement clause allowing parents to veto sex education materials. Schoolchildren were being exposed to explicit "pornography" in the form of information supplied by health authorities and other organisations to teachers, she warned.

Children as young as 11 were being given details of sexual activities including anal sex, sado-masochism, use of pain, dressing up, tying up, multiple partners and partner swapping.

This^** is why we need the BBC.
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*Santorum: 'that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.' --Dan Savage

**This, and more of The League of Gentlemen.