Children aged 10 and 11 will be warned, in a lesson plan backed by a senior minister, that almost all photos shown in adverts have been manipulated and that many show “a degree of perfection which is unattainable in society”.
They will be told that reading magazines lowers their self-esteem, putting their physical and mental health at risk, and asked to consider if “you need to be beautiful in order to be a good or loveable person”.
It comes after a Government-commissioned review called for action to keep sexualised material away from children, which could see explicit music videos given 18-rated labels and the covers of lads’ mags hidden in newsagents.
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