A pregnant teenager is questioning why students are being taught about sex when they are so young, especially given sex isn’t legal until the age of 16.
Amber-Leigh Erasmus, who is now 17, is due to give birth to her first child on Saturday, a result of having unprotected sex during New Year celebrations.
Amber-Leigh said she was brought up with the idea that you should wait until marriage before having sex. But the things she learned at school made sex seem like a perfectly normal thing to do, so she tried it.
In a sex education programme “I learned [at the age of 13] that sex was okay as long as you consented to it. I learned how to put on condoms, and we even got to ‘taste test’ the flavours of oral condoms.”
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