Teachers should not tell teenagers to stop watching porn, according to U.K government-backed guidelines.
Pupils must instead be taught the difference between real-life relationships and the ‘distorted’ world of X-rated films.
This could involve playing card games in class to decide whether various sexual scenarios belong on ‘Planet Earth’ or ‘Planet Porn’.
Youngsters need to learn that pornography does not reflect real life, often showing ‘perfect’ bodies and exaggerated sexual prowess’, it says.
The document – which has been criticised by an education campaigner for ‘taking children’s childhoods away from them’ – also calls for students to be told about the dangers of ‘sexting’ – sending explicit text messages – and sharing sexual photos and images.
The new guidance has been drawn up by sexual health charity Brook, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum in a bid to give schools advice on how to teach pupils about the topic.
It comes in the wake of a report published by Ofsted last year which found that sex and relationships education (SRE) needs to be improved in more than a third of schools.
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