Want to teach kids about the birds and the bees? Show them Roman pots and Egyptian paintings! British Museum's new German boss says erotic artefacts can help school pupils learn about sex and LGBT issues

The British Museum is displaying a number of erotic treasures as a part of a sex education programme. 

They encompass a Roman goblet displaying guys having sex, a bronze phallus wind chime from Pompeii and even a box of six dildos and penis earrings designed to 'make ladies cry'. 

The idea is for children to learn about sex and identification through the use of the museum's gadgets to talk about contemporary issues.

The British Museum is showing a number erotic treasures as a part of a intercourse training programme

The Warren Cup is a Roman silver drinking cup decorated with men having sex. It become purchased with the aid of the British Museum for £1.8million in 1999

A set of woman's 'lavatory' implements for sexual gratification, such as six dildos and penis helps, utilized in Japan inside the 1800s

By analyzing the Aztecs, the Romans and ancient Egyptians, scholars can learn about pornography, consent and lesbian, gay and transgender issues.

The concept is subsidized by means of German museum director Hartwig Fischer who claims that intercourse education 'works lots higher in museums'. 

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He advised The Times: 'Museums provide protected spaces and provide faculties the possibility for pupils to interact with items and cope with difficult subjects. 

'We run a intercourse and relationship programme that works a great deal higher in museums where you have items that you could relate to and in which it's far simpler to speak about these things. 

Left: A Roman windchime. Bells have been believed to keep off evil spirits and so they have been regularly combined with the phallus, an erect penis, which turned into also a image of excellent fortune and a appeal in opposition to evil. Right: Museum director Hartwig Fischer

'I think what we have rediscovered is the function of gadgets as possibilities to study and to familiarise yourself with cultures around the globe.' 

A section of the British museum's website reads: 'The proof for equal-sex desire and fluid thoughts of gender has often been unnoticed in the past, however museums and their collections can allow us to look lower back and spot range for the duration of history.'

'Much of the historic proof is targeted round guys and their concerns and often what survives is partial, fragmentary or ambiguous. 

'Such things have often been hidden in history, and obscured by means of censorship, however now we realise the beyond is tons ?Queerer? Than we've regularly concept.' 

A penis ring used for sex via the Kayan people, an ethnic minority in Burma, inside the 1800s

HARTWIG FISCHER'S CAREER 

Fischer, born in Hamburg in 1962, began his career on the Kunstmuseum Basel, an artwork museum in Basel, Switzerland.

From 2001 to 2006, he changed into curator of 19th-Century and Modern artwork. 

He have become director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen in 2006, and presided over a duration of enlargement.

In December 2011, he was appointed director of the Dresden State Art Collections.

On 25 September 2015, the Trustees introduced that Fischer will be the next Director of the British Museum. 

He is the primary non-British head of the museum since the Italian Sir Anthony Panizzi stood down in 1866. He took up the appointment on four May 2016.