Children should be taught about orgasms during school, MP Jess Phillips has said.

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said she believes girls should be allowed to learn about sexual pleasure during sex education classes.

The mother-of-two added that she hopes by doing so, it would close the ‘orgasm gap’.

The Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said she believes girls should be allowed to learn about sexual pleasure during sex education classes (Picture: ParliamentTV)

She later clarified that she wasn’t suggesting children a ‘taught to masturbate’.


Speaking to Grazia Magazine, she said: ‘Women’s expectations should be greater, we have to start demanding more.

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‘To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power and imbalance between men and women.



‘Let’s stop people feeling ashamed.’

The interview came shortly after figures revealed only 65% of straight women admitted to ‘usually or always orgasming’ during sex.

She later clarified that she wasn’t suggesting children a ‘taught to masturbate’ (Picture: REX)

The statistic was shocking compared with the 95% of men.

Mrs Phillips, 37, who was raised in a ‘naked household’ where sex was an open topic, previously campaigned for sex education to be compulsory in all secondary schools by 2020.