Sex education in your school

[TMAN10112]

In my school the class pretty much went like this:
-Here's what puberty is.
-Here's how sex works.
-Lets pound the image of STDs into your head for a month or two.
-Here's why abstinence is 100% super-cool and the best thing since sliced bread.
-repeat steps 3 & 4 for the remainder of the quarter.

When asked about condoms, our teacher gave us a short speech about how they were unreliable and we wouldn't need them because abstinence is the way to go (he really gave off a sort of "if-you-argue-with-me-then-don't-expect-a-100" vibe).

He never mentioned religion though, so I guess he just didn't want to risk any conflict with parents or his supperiors.

 

[CovertCell]

I went to a catholic boys only (until sixth form, aged 16-18) school. We learned nothing and if we did it was:

use protection - you wont get an STD but you'll got to Hell as its not pro-creation

don't use it - you may get an STD and an unwanted baby which you can't abort because...you'll burn in Hell.


Needless to say I was very confused until people figured out what google and a high speed internet connection was really used for.

 

[Tiny116]

My school sex education was ballshit, they taught us the anatomy and science of it. Unless of course you were a girl you got the morning off classes and got free tampons!

My best sex education came from explorer scouts.

 

[Lord George]

I think we got showed some sketchy diagrams in year 7 and that was about it, apparently due to us being the top skill set class in the school they assumed that we'd be smart enough to figure out the rest for ourselves, which we did, ahh the days of popping off behind the bike sheds (which can't be done anymore due to the school being rebuilt with cameras everywhere like some weird localised Orwellian experiment)

 

[ellenrocksyourworld]

We were sat in a dark room and made to watch this ridiculous animated video thing that was straight out of the nineteen-fifties. They showed us on the last day of year six, so I presume the plan was to show us the video then send us off for two months and pray we had no questions when we came back for year seven. Catholic schools, am I right?

 

[BonsaiK]

I went to a public school in Australia. We got lectures and also got shown a book that told us how sex worked both on a physical and biological level. It had pictures in it (drawings not photographs) but even though they were explicit they weren't very erotic and frankly made the act look kind of ugly. The use of quite hirstue men and women sporting very 70s hairstyles was frankly disturbing. It didn't seen appealing at all and I guess maybe that was the idea. We also got taught about safe sex a lot, as well as pregnancy and birth... prety much everything except the sexual act itself was discussed in great detail. For the sexual act they basically gave us the aforementioned book and said "there you go - read that - but give the book back at the end of class".

 

[CatAttack]

I was ill that day.

 

[Video Gone]

First sex-ed class for me was waaaaaay back in the day, last year of primary school. They taught us about puberty and the mechanics of sex, but not the emotion, how passionate it is. Also, since this is Ireland, the no-way island, anything regarding contraception or STDs was kept way too short and hard to even get out of the damned idiot who was speaking, and this is moving on to secondary school for fuck's sake. What the fools who run the show don't realise is that it can be extremely dangerous not to teach kids about this stuff.
Thank Mighty Thor for the fact that I actually managed to get hold of the damned information.

So yeah, extremely inadequate.

 

[Video Gone]

We were sat in a dark room and made to watch this ridiculous animated video thing that was straight out of the nineteen-fifties. They showed us on the last day of year six, so I presume the plan was to show us the video then send us off for two months and pray we had no questions when we came back for year seven. Catholic schools, am I right?

YOU ARE RIGHT. High five.

EDIT: AAAARGH, BUGGERY AND DAMNATION, DOUBLE POST. Meant to add it on to my above one, sorry.

 

[Zacharine]

We learned the anatomy, top ten STDs, condoms, pills and other forms of protection and their limitations (main message being that only the rubber protects from diseases as well and that there is a possibility of rubber failing if not...applied... correctly. Cue visual demonstrations on a banana...), physical and mental aspects related to it (always akward the first time and all that) and that the school nurse has a box of rubbers she gives out if you just come and ask. Then an education cartoon. A few leaflets to read on our own for sources of more info.

Once all that had been done over the course of several days, the teacher said the class is officially over but that she would be discussing positions next, along with their pros and cons.

As can be expected, not a single soul left early. We were 14 to 15 years old. The first sex-ed class we had had when we were 11. But nowhere nearly as complete (more about the changes of puberty) and with the message to wait for a few years. But condoms we were told about even back then.

 

[stabnex]

Public High school where your folks had to sign a waver to let their kids into Sex-Ed. They mostly taught us that gays were evil because they created STD's and the usual mechanics of reproduction.

Other than that it mostly abstinence-based which turned out to be totally fucking irrelevant when an anonymous poll revealed there was not a single virgin in my classroom. Which came as a bit of a shock to me because there were some ass ugly girls in there.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

We never talked about sex in my school. I learned everything from the good ol' internet.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Ya, in fifth grade you had to watch it, one where your parents' signed the paper. What really made it stick out of my mind was this: the person had a sex-ed video with three options: Boys, Girls, and Both. So, instead of seperating the different sexes into different rooms, we stayed in the same room and watched the Both video. They taught the genitals, menstration... and that was it. No STDs, safe-sex, or even pregnancy. I don't even remember an ounce of detail from it, I learned much more in health class... and of course the immature peers.

It was horrible, I hated that day and it alienated the boys from the girls for a while.

 

[Aerodyamic]

Oh, I learned a lot about sex in school.
Well, not in class. But technically still in school.

Don't you love 'extra credit' with the hot, young, summer term teachers?

 

[Mozza444]

My school was shocking.. we started to learn sex ed in yr 11.. i was 16 years old

by this time i had already lost my virginity.. fucking idiots

 

[Octorok]

Well we didn't have an abstinence lecture, just safe and responsible sex. Then a lecture on STDs and the problems facing teenage parents. Though the best part was the "how to put on a condom" course.

It involved zucchinis (courgettes) and condoms.

Gah! Good Lord Skarin, your avatar is as creepy as waking up to see the eyes of Gordon Brown lustfully gazing down on you.

OT : We had the full sex ed treatment, but the funniest was when a woman came in with a box full of condoms and dildos.

She is used to embarrassing teens, but we turned that class around and messed with that teacher. We had sword fights with some of the longer dildos, stole three of them and sat really awkwardly, one guy put on the strap-on she had and wiggled his hips about... Fun times.

Only thing was, she did the condom part then spent twenty minutes talking about female masturbation because she reckoned that by that point very few teenage boys would really, genuinely need any information on masturbation.

True, but a bit one-sided. Although watching things like "How to use a dildo or other phallic object" was incredibly hilarious, as was the reactions of the girls.

 

[Ham_authority95]

We have a "health" class at my school, but no real "sex ed" class.

I learned all about condoms and abstinence and birth control from the internet anyway .

 

[wooty]

When we did sex ed in my school and found out the workings of it, I shit you not, 3 girls in my year were pregnant within a month. Woops

 

[Super_Nintendo_Chalmers]

I go to a private school, so we got the whole; "The best form of safe sex is abstinence, although it's your choice"
We had a whole day dedicated to learning about sex extensively, although we did have lessons in our PDHPE classes also about sex.