More than half of 16 and 17-year-olds believe schools are not teaching them enough about the attitudes of boys and men towards women and girls and what a healthy relationship looks like, a survey has found.
Nor are they being sufficiently educated about pornography and power imbalances in relationships, they say.
The findings will alarm people concerned about the high numbers of boys and young men who say they admire or follow Andrew Tate, whose misogynistic and extreme views have been slated as dangerous to women and girls.
Tate, who is being held in Romania on trafficking and rape charges, is the founder of an online “academy” said to involve the dehumanising of women, violence and sexual assault.
In polling by the Sex Education Forum charity among people aged 16 and 17, some 58 per cent said power imbalances in relationships were not taught in enough depth, and the same proportion said they were not given enough education about pornography.
