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Porn and relationship education in schools starts this autumn
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Teaching about sex and relationships is changing its name to 'sexuality, consent and relationships'. According to debater and gender scientist Nina Rung, knowledge about good versus bad relationships benefits young people.

- 'This has a real impact on students for the rest of their lives,' she says in the Morning Show.

According to the Swedish National Agency for Education's summary of the new curriculum, the new name of the knowledge area "shows the importance of sexuality and relationships being characterised by consent".

Nina Rung says that consent is about more than sexual relationships and also includes love relationships.

- If you're 15 and in your first relationship, what should you know about what actually constitutes violence? Is it OK for someone to call you derogatory names, push you, pull your hair or strangle you," says Nina Rung, who has long debated the impact of porn consumption on young people's emotional health.

- 'The curriculum has never been so clear that you have to learn about pornography, for example,' says Nina Rung.

Clear in preschools
In several preschools, children are taught that no one is allowed to touch them without permission.

- They clearly teach 'stop minibody', but then it stops when that work is not continued at school," says Nina Rung.

She points out that not all parents are able or willing to talk to their child about the subjects in question. And that's where teachers need to step in as a complement.

Digital arena
Among other things, she hopes that pupils will understand and be able to set limits digitally too. Nina Rung mentions "dick pics", which refer to pictures of the male genitalia sent to another person without being requested.

- If you have no one to turn to, 'dick pics' and so on are normalised, she says.

She has now co-authored a book intended to serve as a knowledge aid for teachers. Not least because the subject is no longer confined to biology and social science classes.

- Now all teachers, whether they have maths or physical education, should introduce the subject in different ways," says Nina Rung.

The consent law
According to Nina Rung, the new curriculum reflects the political debate that led to the Consent Act.

When it was introduced in 2018, some critics argued that it would prove impossible to investigate and prosecute. A year after it came into force, a review of In the Name of the Law on P1 showed that the law had made an impact. Among other things, the Supreme Court took on a rape case.