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“Hugs,” everybody keeps saying. “Who do you most want to hug on 17 May?” It’s an absurd act of prudishness. The real headline of next Monday is, of course, that this is the first day on which it will be legal (in England and most of Scotland, but not yet Wales or Northern Ireland) to have sex with a stranger since 22 March 2020. As we look ahead to the post-Covid dating world, the rules are very much a work in progress. From every quarter, one hears the same message: there is no such thing as zero risk. An acceptable gamble to one person will look like outrageous recklessness to another. The pandemic hasn’t treated us all the same, and we’re likely to emerge with different versions of what “moral” and “responsible” look like. Old friends have a hard enough time navigating new schisms, but what about total strangers? How do you meet new people in this scared new world – and what to do if the worst comes to the worst: you also fancy th
Winchester College A GROUP of parents concerned about how sex education is being taught in schools are calling for change. The set of 15 parents have joined together over the last two years following concerns surrounding relationships and sex education lessons (RSE) and have set a Facebook group calling themselves ‘Hampshire Safer Schools’. Mother of three and paediatrician Dr Julie Maxwell contacted the Chronicle after the paper reported parents’ fury that pupils at Winchester College were told they will not be prosecuted for having “consensual” intercourse. As previously reported, boys aged 13 and 14 were given a lesson by Dr Eleanor Draeger from the organisation It Happens, who stated that the age of consent “is not there to punish young people for having consensual sex”.
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