Children's "sexual exploration rooms" coming to a daycare near you?!?
No, this is not some sick, twisted joke - this is a real thing happening in Germany right now.
A number of daycare centers in Germany have already introduced these "sexual exploration rooms," while other daycares are still considering it. This includes at least two nurseries in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
These rooms are made for children - yes, CHILDREN - to engage in sexual games and discover their bodies and what pleases them.
A German newspaper, Die Welt, reached out to the North Rhine-Westphalia children's ministry for comment. They were told that the "sexual behavior by children" could not be "prevented" and said they had no intention of contacting the daycare centers to investigate.
According to Fox News:
Die Welt reported that one daycare in Kerpen offers children the "freedom to try out childish sexuality." The daycare also said that sexual self-pleasure on its property is of "great importance," insisting that "masturbation is normal."
I can't believe I have to do this, but I am putting a content warning on this picture of the hand puppets that are part of a "Applied Sexology" course for kids, including a bearded man with breasts, a woman with pubic hair (edited out), and a pregnant mother with a stuffed doll with an umbilical cord that comes out of her (the purpose is to teach children that men can have babies too).
Another daycare in the town of Rheinberg has also set up similar rooms where children are encouraged to play "doctor games" and urged to pursue and explore each other's bodies "carefully," according to REDUXX.
Oh, but don't worry!
They are trying their best! They at least warned the children that "no objects are to be introduced into body orifices."
Earlier this month, REDUXX reported that Germany's leading professional association on sexuality and partnership, Pro Familia, issued recommendations to daycares to set up "body exploration rooms" and "sexual games" for kids back in July.
In June, another German outlet, BILD, published an email from an Arbeiterwohlfahrt daycare center in the Hanover region of Germany that was sent to parents.
Some parents were outraged when they received the email stating the ten rules detailing how children in the rooms would be encouraged to "pet and examine" themselves and other young students.
1. Each child decides for themselves whether and with whom they want to play physical and sexual games.
2. All children, especially preschoolers, are aware of the places in the facility where nudity and body exploration can take place.
3. Girls and boys pet and examine each other only as much as is comfortable for themselves and other children.
4. No child hurts another.
5. No child sticks anything into another child's body openings (bottom, vulva, mouth, nose, ear) or licks another child's body.
6. The age gap of the children involved is at most 2 years.
7. Older children, young people, and adults are not allowed to take part in the doctor games.
8. You can say "stop" at any time and will always be respected.
9. Asking for help is not snitching.
10. If there are not enough educational staff to ensure compliance with the rules, there may be restrictions on play, e.g. children are not allowed to go naked.
One father told BILD:
My daughter is five years old. I don't want boys groping her. I have another child in another daycare center [where] there is no such thing [as an exploration room].
This disgusting email caused intense backlash, and a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education in the Lower Saxony state capital said, "The educational concept in this form endangers the well-being of the child."
Later, the head of the nursery group's management company stated that their head office had not approved the letter sent to parents, and the kindergarten has since canceled the project.
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