Sex Education For Girls

You'll have seen reports of Nadine Dorries' Ten Minute Rule speech in Parliament on Wednesday. If you haven't read the full text of her speech (and the far more reasonable response by Chris Bryant) then I recommend that you do so now. You might also like to check how (or, more likely, whether) your MP voted on the subject.

Dorries herself has published four blog posts about the debate. It's interesting (if not particularly enlightening) to read what she says:

• What a Feeling
• The link to 10 min rule bill
• AV and Girls..
• The week that was..

There is a lot of coverage by the mainstream media:

• Nadine Dorries' abstinence bill is a definite no-no (Guardian)
• Schools should teach sexual abstinence (BBC)
• Teach schoolgirls to say 'no to sex', Tory MP says (Telegraph)
• Stop telling teenagers not to have sex (Evening Standard)

And, as you would expect, there are a large number of bloggers commenting on  the issue:

• Abstinence makes Nadine Dorries brain go softer (Liberal Conspiracy)
• Nadine Dorries (hearts) teenage sex (Bloggerheads)
• On Nadine Dorries, sex, and the left (yes really) (Latte Labour)
• Boys, Girls and Nadine Dorries (Heresy Corner)
• The problems with Nadine Dorries' motion (The F Word)
• Dorries Sex-Ed bill will roll back sexual equality in our schools (The Third Estate)
• Nadine Dorries and the Crackpot Christians (Obliged to Offend)
• 4.7 Sexual Innuendos Per Hour (Bartholomew's Notes)
• Women Who Hate Women: Nadine Dorries (Um... about that thing you just said...)
• "Empowerment" Merlin's soggy left buttcheek (Thought Things)
• Thoughts on Nadine Dorries' abstinence campaign (We Mixed Our Drinks)

There are many more, of course. I'll add more links to good blog posts as I find them. There are also a couple of stories about this in the current edition of the Pod Delusion.