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Mind your language

Mind your language: Who says there's a 'correct name' for the penis?

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

27 July 2013

9:00 AM

In a very rum letter to the Daily Telegraph, the Mother’s Union of all people joined with some other bodies to demand that ‘primary schools should teach the correct names for genitalia’. What can they mean?

A confederate of the Mother’s Union in this campaign, the Sex Education Forum, says that by the age of seven, children should name ‘external genitalia’.

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