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[np_storybar title=”Ontario’s new sex ed covers homosexuality, masturbation — and consent. Not everyone’s saying ‘yes’” link=”http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/20/ontarios-new-sex-ed-will-cover-homosexuality-masturbation-and-consent-not-everyones-saying-yes/”]As she hears tidbits about Ontario’s new sexual education curriculum, Sarah Carlyon-Baker admits to being a “little wary.”

Children will learn about homosexuality and same-sex marriage in Grade 3. In Grade 6, they’ll talk about puberty — a chat that will cover masturbation. When they get to the subject of sexually transmitted diseases in Grade 7, they’ll learn just how they’re contracted, including through oral and anal sex.

The new curriculum, expected to be released on Monday, is a far cry from the sex-ed the Jasper, Ont., mother remembers getting as a student — brief talk of menstruation in Grade 5, with everything else gleaned from “the schoolyard” or from a book wordlessly slipped to her by her mother.

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What’s next, Ms. Premier? Hmm? Drinking? Instructions on how to roll marijuana cigarettes? Talks about couples pooping on each other during intercourse? Is that want you want to talk about Ms. Wynne? Pooping?

It’s enough to make anyone reach for the smelling salts, but let’s do some filtering, shall we? Yes, the Premier is a lesbian. No, the Premier is not trying to create a province of little minion gays and lesbians. Awareness of a phenomenon does not necessarily endear one to a phenomenon; children will not decide to adopt a “homosexual lifestyle” for the duration of their adult lives because they learned in Grade 3 that some families have two daddies.