Worth pointing out that this is nothing new for Denmark, I remember naked bodies being displayed in children's sex-ed shows in the 90ies.
Sex-ed classes in school often involved(involves?) displaying pictures of a wide array of genitalia to make sure kids understand that there's quite a bit of variance
Having the actual subject in front of you is the best way to learn about things.
Do remember that this is not about sex, but about body image.
As a German i never understood the prude Americans and their idiotic view on nudity.
Having stupid amounts of violence (even the Tom and Jerry kind) in the media is fine.
Having artificially perfect bodies (with the proper amount of cover by clothing) is fine too.
But if there is a nipple visible somewhere they go full apeshit for no reason.
Here I think is the difference between a book and a live person:
The show’s producers say the program is meant as an educational tool to fight body shaming and encourage body positivity. And so first reluctantly, later enthusiastically, the children from the Orestad School in Copenhagen asked the adults questions like: “At what age did you grow hair on the lower part of your body?” “Do you consider removing your tattoos?” “Are you pleased with your private parts?”
One of the adults, Martin, answered that he had never had “negative thoughts” about his private parts. Another adult, also named Martin, admitted that when he was young he had worried about size. “But the relationship with myself has changed over time,” he said.
With serious looks on their faces, the children nodded.
It's weird that this is significant news - maybe in the US this is odd but coming from another secular European country, we have had similar shows over the years and no one bats an eye really.
I've done sex-ed as a kid both in Denmark and in the US in the eighties.
The danish one was super relaxed. Teacher (female) had lots of good advice like "don't stick anything up there, that you wouldn't put in your mouth". We also had people with different sexualities come out and tell us how that worked. You tried rolling on a condom on replicas. All in all good fun.
In the US (liberal school in CA) you were split into boys and girls. Parents had to sign a note that you where allowed to participate. And I don't remember the lessons for being particular informative or relaxed. More like anatomy lessons.
It really is such a psychological crime that so many children are reared with the advice that humans bodies are (in part) shameful.
This starts children off from the perspective of themselves being fundamentally wrong, flawed, or bad.
Maybe we have different opinions about what is a healthful or attractive body, but the concept of a body and its parts should be no more controversial than a tree and its parts.
In my country (France), half of 13 years old kids have already seen porn.
I sharply remember at the same age, as a boy, I was highly interested in seeing naked women. But I was not at all interested in the sexual act itself. It could be argued that if it is made super easy so see naked adults, there is much less need to look for porn. So that kind of show could raise the age at which young people start watching porn, and that would only be a good thing.
Sex-ed classes in school often involved(involves?) displaying pictures of a wide array of genitalia to make sure kids understand that there's quite a bit of variance