From September first-year students will now learn about the influence of porn, the importance of consent in sexual relationships and how sexual orientation and gender identity are experienced and expressed.
Caolan Faux director of Youth Work Ireland in the Cavan Monaghan area, has been speaking on the Joe Finnegan show earlier today about these purposed changes to how SPHE is going to be taught going forward.
Relationship and sexuality education (RSE) is one strand of four included on the revamped Social, Personal and Health Education course to be rolled out to students starting post-primary school from this September.
He says phones have come part of everyone's life and that we do need proper education around the digital world and the access to the digital sphere.
Another learning outcome sees students expected to "appreciate the breadth of what constitutes human sexuality, and how sexual orientation and gender identity are experienced and expressed in diverse ways
Caolan says accessing pornography has become normalised and he says that watching pornography from such an early age can have huge negative effects,
