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Reply 20

Bulletzone

Never had sex education. :smile:

Reply 21

Drunk Punx

Adequate, I guess. The basics (anatomy, pregnancy, etc) were covered in Year 5, and in Year 9 we put condoms on bananas and learned about STDs.

Honestly, the stuff I learned when I was 9/10 was more informative (from a biological point of view) than what I was taught in secondary school.

Reply 22

claireestelle

sexual health lessons in my secondary school were pretty repetitive and slightly misinformed, the teachers thought the morning after pills induced periods for example and weren't able to explain differences between contraceptives that well either. Especially once the majority of the classroom was above consenting age they really should have been better.
There were a couple of good lessons in sixth form on recognizing unhealthy relationship behaviors and abuse though, that was handled well.

Reply 23

TheGoodPharaoh

They had their own condoms in year 9? Wild

Reply 24

Rum Ham

I never got any sex ed at school. My mum taught me everything I know about sex ed. We are more like sisters than mother and daughter so it was very relaxed but innovative and I felt comfortable talking to her about it and still do.

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Reply 25

TheGoodPharaoh

Wildest thing someone ever did in my school was not flush the toilet

Reply 26

epsilondelta

I don't mind this kind of thing generally but I had to watch a video of a women giving birth, and I saw a close-up view of her vagina SPLIT OPEN when the baby came out. This was in Year 6 when I was 11. I'm now 22 and still traumatised, it was horrible and I was too young!

Reply 27

Lilith2400

I don't think the sex education i received was very good. We had one lesson in year 6 where we learnt about periods and growing hair etc. We learnt about boys going through puberty but the boys apparently learnt nothing about the girls??? I went to christian secondary school so they were more traditional with what we learnt. I only learnt more on the menstrual cycle and pregnancy in science and then contraception methods and abortion as part of our year 11 course ( many in the class had no idea about any contraception). We also occasionally had vague assemblys reminding us not to send naked photographs online. We never learnt about STIs and healthy relationships - well we did vaguely in year 12 but it's not good enough in my opinion. They leave important information far too late and brief when people have already educated themselves from word of mouth or pornography. Sexual harrassment was a big problem in my school , i'm thinking it's maybe due to this lack of teaching on what is okay in relationships , how to respect eachother , consent etc

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Reply 28

MarxistNightmare

Far too excessive and gratuitous. There is something really glib and cheap about the prevailing cultural attitude of most young liberal westerners, the whole 'be fun, be safe, do what you want as long there is a condom' ideology. What is wrong with just doing what the eastern world does and not draw excessive attention to it; basically just teaching solid academic theory and leave children to work out their personal issues themselves. There is absolutely no requirement for sex ed or even contraception as long as marital morality is enforced severely. Is there even any legitimacy in the morning after pill? Surely your just bailing out scum and sending out the message that short term debauchery can be just swept under the carpet and go unaccounted.

Reply 29

Unown Uzer

It was ok. I learnt that the age of consent was 16, was shown abortion pictures and news articles of teenage girls getting pregnant, and told that we had every right to reject sex, etc. in one year 9 assembly. Didn't learn how to use contraception or anything like that.

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Reply 30

Nunchuck-master-2334

Original post by AAO

As I have a great interest in sexual health and therefore going onto study a sexual health degree this September I always read and research into the subject. Recently I have read various articles online (news too) about sex education and whether it is good enough and and what and how exactly it should be taught. At the current time I am interested in going into the education side of sexual health but who knows after completing the degree I may have a change of heart.

In hope to gather information, opinions and thoughts on my own I have decided to post in the sexual health forum and hope to gather various responses about what your sex education was like?

For example my first sex education lesson was in my last year of primary school. The lesson was mostly the biological side of sex education. Then during the middle of secondary school I had a full day of sex education involving topics like the law, STIs, relationships etc. And again I had one or two sessions again the biological side of sex education during my GCSES.

All responses are appreciated by myself as I and doing this out of my own interest so don't worry about providing so much detail or anything personal.

Thank you in advance for any responses.

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