Schools should show teenagers pornography and get them to analyse it like they would a Jane Austin novel, a BBC presenter has said.

Dame Jenni Murray, who has presented BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for nearly 30 years, called for sex education to be combined with biology, and for schools to teach a separate subject called “gender education”.

Speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, the veteran presenter said a change in education was needed after due to the ease with which children have access to online pornography.

She told the audience: “We give our kids Jane Austen to read and we say, ‘OK let’s analyse it’.

“We might show them a news bulletin that has been on television the night before. Why not show them pornography and teach them how to analyse it?

“You put boys and girls together in a class and you show them a pornographic film and you analyse it in exactly the same way as you teach them to read all the other cultures around them.”

Schoolkids would be allowed to discuss what they had seen so they realised “normal” women do not behave like those in the films.

The Daily Mail reports that she also called for sex education to be taught as part of biology so parents would be less likely to opt out of it.

“I would abolish sex education,” she said. “I would put the ‘what goes where’ and ‘how and how things are made’ and all of that into biology because that is science and no parent is going to say ‘oh, I don’t want my child getting involved in biology or science’. Whereas an awful lot of parents might say, ‘I don’t want my child to have sex education’.

“What we would then have is a compulsory subject called gender education, so it doesn’t have the word sex in it so nobody can complain or be upset.”

The rise in easily-accessible pornography, together with the growth of gender ideology, is causing increasing confusion across the Western world as to what to teach school children.

Breitbart reported in June how Washington State in the U.S. has published educational guidelines claiming even kindergarten children needed to “understand there are many ways to express gender”, and that gender is nothing more than a “social construct based on emotional, behavioural, and cultural characteristics attached to a person’s assigned biological sex.”