ARLINGTON, Va. – The taxpayer-funded Public Broadcasting Service is making the case for sex education in kindergarten, pointing to the Dutch “comprehensive” model that starts with 4-year-olds.

The May 27 PBS Newshour health feature centers on the “Spring Fever” week in the Netherlands, where the country’s “comprehensive sex education” curriculum focuses a week of lessons on sexuality for primary school students.

Those students start at age 4 with talks about hugging and intimacy, and grow more detailed and explicit in higher grades.

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“Other early lessons focus on body awareness. For example, students draw boys’ and girls’ bodies, tell stories about friends taking a bath together, and discuss who likes doing that and who doesn’t,” PBS reports.

“By age seven, students are expected to be able to properly name body parts including genitals. They also learn about different types of families, what it means to be a good friend, and that a baby grows in a mother’s womb.”

The broadcasting service talked with Ineke van der Vlugt, a youth sexual development expert with the nonprofit – Rutgers WPF – that helped develop the “sexuality” education curriculum.

“People often think we are starting right away to talk about sexual intercourse (with kindergarteners),” he said. “Sexuality is so much more than that. It’s also about self image, developing your identity, gender roles, and it’s about learning to express yourself, your wishes and your boundaries.”

Van der Vlugt told PBS one of the main goals of the curriculum is to counter sexulization in the media.

“We wanted to show that sexuality also has to do with respect, intimacy, and safety,” he said.

PBS reports the Netherlands system of sex ed results in better outcomes for students there than in the U.S.

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Dutch students do not have sex earlier, according to data cited by PBS, and they have more fun when they do go all the way.

“Researchers found that among 12 to 25 year olds in the Netherlands, most say they had ‘wanted and fun’ first sexual experiences,” PBS reports. “By comparison, 66 percent of sexually active American teens surveyed said they wished they had waited longer to have sex for the first time.”

Rutgers WPF research claims that nine out of 10 Dutch teens used contraceptives during their first sex experience, and the teen pregnancy rate in the Netherlands is five times lower than the U.S., according to the news site.

And under the subhead “Let’s not talk about sex,” PBS delves into all the reasons why America’s sex education system isn’t getting the job done.

The news service highlighted Congress’ extension of comprehensive adolescent sexual health initiatives last month, but also pointed to $75 million dedicated to promote abstinence, as if that money was a total waste.

PBS quoted Deb Hauser, president of the sex ed nonprofit Advocates for Youth, who essentially said it is.

“We have failed to see that sexual health is far more than simply the prevention of disease and unplanned pregnancy,” she told PBS.

PBS also pointed to the fact half of U.S. states stress abstinence, which former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher apparently thinks “created generations of people who are not comfortable with their own sexuality.”

The perfect example is Utah, which “requires that abstinence be the dominant message given to students.

“It bans discussing details of sexual intercourse and advocating for homosexuality, the use of contraceptives or sexual activity outside of marriage,” according to PBS.

People like Utah state Rep. Bill Wright even have the audacity to propose legislation “requiring that abstinence only be taught and that it be an optional subject,” according to the news service.

Wright’s proposed 2012 bill was vetoed by the governor, but his quote at the time worked perfectly to illustrate the noncaring stereotype PBS was looking to saddle on those who support a more conservative sex education approach.

Sex ed is “not an important part of our curriculum,” Wright said, according to PBS. “It is just basically something out there that takes away from the character in our schools and takes away from the character of our students.”