Designing The Perfect Brothel in 8th Grade? The Dark History of German Sex Education Scholarship

A group of 8th graders at a German high school got the task to design an "inclusive" brothel during their biology class in 2026. The task is taken almost word-for-word from a 2008 sex ed book that includes a range of pro-BDSM and sex industry messaging directed at school kids and has been used in a number of classrooms since publication. Elly Arrow and Sybil Jo discuss what this vision of sex education looks like, its dark historical origins and how it hinders the important work of real violence and minority discrimination prevention.Sourceshttps://www1.wdr.de/nrw/niederrhein/kreis-kleve/kevelaer-prostitution-schule-100.htmlhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualp%C3%A4dagogik_der_Vielfalthttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kentlerhttps://www.emma.de/artikel/kinderfreunde-es-geht-weiter-333657https://www.emma.de/artikel/falsche-kinderfreunde-263497https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/experten-warnen-vor-zu-frueher-aufklaerung-von-kindern-13203307.html