YouTube personality Zoella and her fans have spoken out after she was dropped from a GCSE media syllabus for posting reviews for sex toys online.

Examiners were subject to a flood of complaints from parents who were concerned about adult content on Zoella's website, which included guides on the best sex toys to “spice up your life”

Devoted fans of the star, from Brighton, have posted their support online in posts which have been shared by Zoe’s Instagram account.

User em_clarkson said; “This is so frustrating. Female pleasure is not taught in schools. It is not mentioned once.

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“We learn about the 'birds and the bees' and that amounts to; men have wet dreams and should wear condoms, women have periods and will have babies.

“The whole conversation is so warped and it’s this ridiculous outdated thinking that sees girls enter into sexual partnerships as teenagers that they might not even be comfortable with."

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The internet star had been one of several online celebrities which children would study as part of exam board AQA’s GCSE course.

AQA has now written to teachers instructing them to remove the video blogger from exam and course material, The Times reports.

The YouTube star advertised sex toys including “pulsating tongue-mimicking machines” and vibrating underwear which can be “wirelessly controlled from up to eight metres away”.

Other items included a “wish-granting baton” and a “majestic finger puppet” which can be attached to people’s digits.

Another fan, Instagram user aliceaudley, said: “God forbid teenagers learn about sex toys.

“Let’s just stick to the good old lesson of how to put a condom on a banana.

“Maybe if the education system evolved a bit, then we wouldn’t be in the crisis where kids learn about sex through porn.

“Rant over. Keep going and keep educating Zoe.”

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Sandra Allan, AQA’s Head of Curriculum for Creative Arts, told Yahoo in a statement: “GCSE Media Studies includes the analysis of online and social media and we added Zoella in 2017.

“At the time, all her content was appropriate for teaching, but some of Zoella’s recent content is aimed specifically at an adult audience and isn’t suitable for GCSE students.

“As a result, we’ve removed the section on Zoella from the course, and we’ve contacted our schools and colleges to let them know.”

Responding on Instagram, Zoe, 30, has said she did not know she was on the syllabus.

She said: "Apparently the @zoella website got picked for a GCSE syllabus? Nothing I was aware of or asked to be part of.

"For those who aren’t aware, the Zoella website is not just me reviewing things. It’s a passionate team of women writing about things that women are interested in & we’ve worked hard to include more women’s health, conversational articles, and basically just more grown-up content as our main demographic is 25-35-year-old females. NOT 16-year-olds.

"However if the curriculum had done their research before just going 'Oh Zoella, her audience are just teens, right?' they probably would have discovered countless posts about periods, masturbation, sex, fertility alongside the newer post they’re referring to.

"Alongside this. I actually disagree that teens shouldn’t be learning about this stuff. Maybe not in their [exam curriculum] but how else are teenage girls going to find out more about being a woman? I wish I had a website like Zoella when I was growing up.

"Instead I had a Mizz magazine problem page!! Are you trying to tell me your 16-year-old daughter doesn’t know what a sex toy is or that she’s not explored her body at all?

"It’s reasons like this that we feel it’s important to write about these things on the website! And we will continue to do so. But just to clear up the narrative.

"No. I did not review vibrators. As a team we wrote about the most popular ones and guess what? It was our most clicked on article, most swiped up and most ordered items through links ever because women masturbate and if that makes you feel uncomfortable, that’s society for you"