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My children's school year started this week. I have had a look at their new schoolbooks.
My oldest child, 15 years old son, has a new book in biology which concentrates on humans in every aspect. There is a full one page photo at the start of each chapter, and one of them shows a naked family! (This is the title page for the chapter about heredity, if I remember right, or alternatively about reproduction.) In the picture there are a man and a woman half-sitting sideways, and sitting in front of them a boy and a girl (the age of the children may be between 4 to 8 years, the boy is obviously younger than the girl). Otherwise you cannot see anything strategic, but the boy's little penis can be seen.
The picture is nothing special to Finnish children, who always have seen their family members naked, or to their parents. I don't think that anyone would say it is inappropriate in a schoolbook. I am only wondering if this kind of picture would be accepted e.g. in the States.
I didn't find more naked pictures in this and other books. The illustrations about genitals are drawings in the standard way.
I remember that my own biology book for senior high school had in the same way full page photos as title pages of chapters, and for the chapter titled "Individual" there was a picture of a small naked child swimming, his or her bum showing.
Drawings of naked children, usually swimming or in sauna, are not uncommon in schoolbooks. I remember having seen them in the books of three generations (my parents', my own and my children's).
My oldest child, 15 years old son, has a new book in biology which concentrates on humans in every aspect. There is a full one page photo at the start of each chapter, and one of them shows a naked family! (This is the title page for the chapter about heredity, if I remember right, or alternatively about reproduction.) In the picture there are a man and a woman half-sitting sideways, and sitting in front of them a boy and a girl (the age of the children may be between 4 to 8 years, the boy is obviously younger than the girl). Otherwise you cannot see anything strategic, but the boy's little penis can be seen.
The picture is nothing special to Finnish children, who always have seen their family members naked, or to their parents. I don't think that anyone would say it is inappropriate in a schoolbook. I am only wondering if this kind of picture would be accepted e.g. in the States.
I didn't find more naked pictures in this and other books. The illustrations about genitals are drawings in the standard way.
I remember that my own biology book for senior high school had in the same way full page photos as title pages of chapters, and for the chapter titled "Individual" there was a picture of a small naked child swimming, his or her bum showing.
Drawings of naked children, usually swimming or in sauna, are not uncommon in schoolbooks. I remember having seen them in the books of three generations (my parents', my own and my children's).
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