Let’s talk about sex

Caroline O’Doherty reports on an initiative to encourage parents, teachers and young people to discuss sex education in a calm and positive manner

DOORTJE Braeken has a cartoon she likes to show to conferences to encapsulate the stereotypes associated with her native Netherlands.

Clogs feature, as does the quaint little boat-shaped hat, but the girl in the image is also swigging Heineken, smoking a spliff and wearing a sleazily seductive smile. The message, convention suggests, is that the Dutch are far too liberal for their own good.