We've short-changed our young over sex In fact those double standards about sex are no laughing matter From: The Independent - London | Date: June 14, 1999| Author: Tessa Jowell | Copyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

SEX IS all around us. We are surrounded by images of sex on television, in our newspapers and magazines, on hoardings. Sex is used to sell cars, ice-cream and chocolate. It's even being used to try to sell the modern Tory party to reluctant voters.

It would be easy to believe that there was nothing hidden about sex in modern Britain. But there's one area where this new openness about sex definitely does not extend - in parents talking to their children. It's almost the last area of Bri...

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