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Conservatives are in an uproar over ‘Newton,’ an incredibly frank (and graphic) children’s sex ed show in Norway.
This is Line Jansrud.
Screengrab via NRK TV
Jansrud is a Norwegian celebrity and the 29-year-old host of the state-funded educational TV series Newton on Norway’s NRK TV. Recently, Newton aired a controversial segment on puberty featuring Jansrud frankly discussing (and demonstrating) such topics as French kissing, masturbation, and how to give a hickey.
Based on what we can gather from a YouTube translation, the segment begins with Jansrud explaining that puberty “gives you a new body that can make children if you have sex—otherwise known as fucking, screwing, shagging, getting it on, or making love.”
Screengrab via NRK tv
Jansrud then goes on to demonstrate how to French kiss with a tomato…
Screengrab via NRK TV
…and how suction on the neck produces hickeys, which she demonstrates with a vacuum cleaner.
Screengrab via NRK TV
Screengrab via NRK tv
Jansrud then demonstrates where the clitoris and the sensitive nerves on the penis are located, on both live and rubber models.
“Now, what everyone starts with sooner or later, but rarely talks about, stroking your own sex parts. To masturbate,” she says. “Both the clitoris of the girl and the head of the penis on a boy is full of nerves that make it pleasant to touch.”
She then lubricates the vagina before demonstrating penetrative sexual intercourse on the rubber models, as well as how to use a condom. (We can’t show these photos, but suffice to say they’re quite graphic.)
“For it to be pleasant, it’s vital that the vagina be moist enough,” she explains.”For the woman, you also have to rub the clitoris.”
Jansrud caps off the segment by showing viewers her pregnant belly. She found out she was pregnant on the air in February, and she plans to turn her pregnancy into a recurring segment on the series in the coming months.
Screengrab via NRK tv
This isn’t the first time that Newton has taken such a frank and educational approach to sex. Last month, the series landed in hot water on Facebook when the social network deleted a clip of Jansrud demonstrating where the uterus and fallopian tubes are located on a woman’s body by painting the organs on a naked model’s skin. Another clip showed Jansrud explaining menstruation by filming the blood trickling down a live model’s legs.
Such a straightforward approach to sex education seems to be par for the course in Nordic countries. Back in January, a Swedish TV children’s cartoon segment featuring a dancing penis and vagina went viral. The video featured the lyrics “Here comes the penis at full pace” and “the vagina is cool, you better believe it, even on an old lady.”
Unsurprisingly, Newton’s latest segment has been heavily criticized on a handful of blogs, whose writers seem to think the segment is borderline pornographic and prurient. This is despite the fact that Jansrud also touches on such important issues as homosexuality, the age of consent, and the need to use contraceptives. She’s also quick to assure teens that “there’s no need to rush into having sex. It’ll happen soon enough.”
Yet sex-positive Norwegian commenters are applauding Jansrud for speaking about issues, like masturbation and penetrative sex, so frankly. “Great series, that I would like should have seen when I was in school!” one commenter wrote, while another chimed in: “I am genuinely proud of the fact that … Norway is leading the way here. Stand on!”
Perhaps America should take a page out of Jansrud’s book and take a similarly frank approach to sex ed, or maybe we wouldn’t have things like chlamydia epidemics at public high schools to deal with.
You can watch the full segment below.
H/T The Local | Screengrab via NRK TV/YouTube
