sex, and everything you wanted to know - or not

Teenagers Danica Brockwell. left, Faith Thomson and Leah Careless, right, 

look at a male statue at SEX: A Tell-all Exhibition at the Canada Science 

and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

Dave Chan for The Globe and Mail

PARENTING

Why you should take your kid to the sex exhibit in Ottawa

ERIN ANDERSSEN
Ottawa— From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, May. 24, 2012 6:16PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, May. 26, 2012 10:03AM EDT

. . . . Designed by the Montreal Science Centre, with a committee that included scientists, doctors, teachers and public-health educators, the exhibit that explores the science of sex came and went in Montreal and Regina, with hardly a fuss.

But in Ottawa, critical e-mails started even before most people had seen it – and officials stopped counting the complaints after the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada declared it “erotic and titillating” and Heritage Minister James Moore suggested it wasn’t museum-appropriate. In response, the museum removed a video on masturbation, and raised the age for unaccompanied admission to 16 from 12 years old. . . .

see the original article at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/teens/sexuality/why-you-should-take-your-kid-to-the-sex-exhibit-in-ottawa/article2442963/