Teach girls at school about orgasms, says Labour MP

SCHOOLGIRLS should be taught about orgasms during sex education lessons, a Labour MP says.

Jess Phillips said it is vital to discuss female pleasure in order to ‘break down the culture of power imbalance between men and women’.

She argued: ‘We should be telling girls about orgasms during sex education. I’m not suggesting we teach girls how to masturbate, I’m suggesting we talk to them about the things they’re doing anyway.’

She made the remarks after research by the Kinsey Institute revealed only 65 per cent of heterosexual women ‘usually or always’ climax during sex, compared with 95 per cent of men.

Mrs Phillips, 37, said women’s expectations ‘should be greater’ and they should ‘start demanding more’ during sex. The MP for Birmingham Yardley, a mother of two, said she always felt at ease talking about sex with her parents while growing up, and claimed it has helped her in politics.

She added: ‘I’ve made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.’ Mrs Phillips said she is open about sex with her two sons, aged ten and 14.

And she revealed she grew up in a ‘naked household’, and often walks around home naked even now.

She said: ‘It’s mainly laziness. But I think wearing clothes in bed is weird. Why would you get dressed to go to bed?’