Sex education in your school

[Matsu]

I got a ditto sheet that had pictures of the male and female reproductive systems and blanks so you could write in the names of the individual organs and parts and stuff. And when I say pictures, I mean cartoonishly-drawn diagrams from what I think must have been the early 70s.

However, our school was also pretty poor and the "sex ed teacher" was a female substitute gym teacher, so the test involved fill-in-the-blanks with an accompanying visual aid. The female genitalia included things like "ovary", "fallopian tube", "uterus", "cervix", "vulva", but for some reason, the ditto sheet for the male genitals was basically just a drawing of a cock, they didn't even give us courtesy blanks to fill in. I wrote in "head", "shaft", "balls", with arrows pointing to the corresponding shapes on the page, and got full credit.

EDIT:

Prior to that, somebody recorded over my Cinderella tape with some kind of cheap, 90-minute-long porno; it gets right into the "Cinderelly, Cinderelly" song where the mice are making the dress, and then BAM, some guy with the biggest muttonchops I've ever seen and some dark-haired chick with a very nice rear are going at it under a bearskin rug while a blonde woman is doing some topless vacuuming. My sister and I watched for about five minutes in horror before we absconded with the tape to watch it in the basement before anyone caught on. I still have no idea how Cinderella actually ends.

 

[Archemetis]

I already knew everything they were teaching me.

I mean factually not practically.
I already knew all the names for the reproductive organs, their individual parts and purposes, the practises of safe sex everything.

When I was much younger I took a huge textbook interest into the whole thing.
(I'm talking age 9 or so).
And basically just found different sources to teach myself ahead of time.
So when they finally came round to teaching me about it in school I would sit there and know all the answers...

This didn't help me at all with the ladies who considered it weird that I knew more about the inner workings of their vaginas then they did at the time...

Everything about the actual act I learned from Porno.
It's an "education" that has not steered me wrong.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I don't remember much of the specifics. I do remember there was this weird old lady who came to our class with a powerpoint loaded with slides of STD'd genitalia, talked about how babies masturbate, and seemed to like her job a little bit too much...

I left that class more confused than I entered it.

I mean how many of your hopes and ambitions have to be crushed to be content with a job like that? At what point does "when I grow up, I want to be a movie star" turn into "Ok, kids, time to look at the bleeding dick that turned itself inside out because it had MEGA SYPHILIS" and why are you ok with it? ***** needs some mental evaluations.

 

[jimduckie]

gee when i was young , the parents and religious far left screamed no , and when they finally backed off the films they showed sucked ... todays kids got it easy ... i learned about girls and sex like 99 % of guys over 30 did ... playboy and hustler and if a rich kid ... porn movies

 

[IxionIndustries]

Mine didn't teach us shit! All we had was some video on puberty with an annoying song, and that's it.

Most of the stuff I had to figure out beforehand on the internet, from books, and porn.

Although, reading some of the posts up above, I think I wouldn't have wanted to have such a class.

 

[Chaos-Spider]

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

Does this post cause a perverted mental image to explain it, or is this just me.

I actually went to a stiener school (private, religionish, independent school...look ti up.) and other than popular culture was superficial or evil* didn't get much education on current affairs issues let alone sex.

My youngest brother (I have two) got a class of or two of something called 'personal education', which mentioned drugs and stated that vanity was bad and humility was good.

What I know of sex was what my parents told me & what I've read from books (I read a wide variety of them, so can't remember all the titles).

*This may vary from school to school & be slightly biased.

Edit: What's anal pregnancy?

 

[Bat Vader]

I had a health class in 9th grade that also doubled as a sex ed class. I never really paid to much attention to it. I was usually to busy reading.

 

[bluepilot]

At the age of 9 or ten, they showed us a video about how our bodies would change and where babies come from

At 14, we were taught about STDs, the options available for birth control and how they worked, pregnancy and genetics

It was all very informative, the rest, I had to figure that out by myself.

 

[DarkLight523]

Public School, Fiscally Conservative District, Socially Liberal PTSA = Circa. 1988 Sex Ed films on 8 mm.

The animation was about on par with the Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show in terms of quality and realism.

There was one kid whose mother went all biblical at a Board Meeting, spouting off quotes from Exodus and such.

Sheriff deputies had to physically remove her when she started throwing things the rest of the PTSA.

And that was the night we learned about the effects of pepper spray in a closed room... fun-fun.

 

[Break]

Reading over this thread, my school's sex ed was relatively incredible. We'd spend a month or two each year in more than one class learning about it - the organs, the process, pregnancy in Biology, and our guidance counsellors taught the safe sex, STI, social side of it. They even had sessions about when it's appropriate to do it - fairly basic stuff, "Dave wants to hump like bunnies, but Mandy isn't ready, what should they do," but still. They also went out of their way to debunk the particularly ridiculous myths. Surprisingly comprehensive.

Highlight of the whole experience was my old biddy of a guidance counsellor trying to explain what "douche" meant. Not something you really want to hear from a woman who can't have been younger than sixty.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Oh dear. My sex ed program in my British state schools was informative, but bad enough to not really be taken seriously. Years 5 & 7 were just technical stuff - label the diagrams, etc.

Then, in Year 9, we get to the serious stuff, if you could call it that, with some memorable moments like:
-a guy blowing up the condom he was putting on a courgette/zucchini and rattling it around inside;

-an R.E. teacher who I am sure was a lesbian (she looked very butch) telling us the only conteception that worked 100% of the time is 'No';

-A video where two socially awkward people have unprotected sex, then at the end of the video, zooms in on the girl's face while the teacher's voice echoes: "Miissing a period. Missing a period. Missing a period..." over and over again, which was hilarious;

-Another video where a guy has sex without a condom, then it hurts for him to pee, so he sits in a toilet repeating "I've got AIDS. I'm going to die." and imagining himself being castrated to cure it o_0;

Seriously, the people who came up with these videos have no idea of how relationships work, do they?

Oh, and the myths they debunked, like 'You can't get pregnent with your first time' or 'You can't get pregnent if you stand on a phone book'. I seriously doubt anyone but the sex ed people came up with these, just so they could debunk them, seeing as they're so retarded. What the hell is a phone book going to do?!

 

[Simriel]

Catholic school. Nuff said.

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... don't really remember... it's been a long time. I think we had just a tiny bit in biology in... seventh grade i think.

Not much to tell: Just how it works, risks and contraception. Maybe two or three hours. No condoms and bananas or such *g*

There really are schools where they just say: "Don't have sex"? Sigh...

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

I can't remember much other then we just had a big discussion about it.

Although recently... we all had to put a erm... y'know on a ... plastic.. erm... yeah. You get the idea.

 

[x0ny]

our Biology teacher taught us alot on the science side of sex, such as menstruation cycle, fertilization, changes in the human body during adolescence. Then the school invited a guest speaker to talk about contraception, all very informative, even taught us how to put a condom on using a cucumber. She also put out a box for us to write questions on slips of paper and put it in the box. Someone from my year played a really mean prank on this slightly gay kid who's voice still hadn't broken by the age of 18. He put in a question which read as follows:

"My friends laugh and call me effeminate, my voice hasn't broken and I'm not really attracted to the opposite sex. Is it my hormones? Or am I just homosexual?" or words to that effect. The funny thing was that the guest speaker took it as a serious question. The gay kid was present.

 

[Player 2]

We had to put condoms on fake cocks. Bricks were shat.

 

[soilent]

My high school sex ed teacher had been teaching for 40+ years, and one of her early students got preggers in her 12th year, 19 years later, she taught that woman's child about how sex before marriage is bad.

I was in class with that kid, many laughs were had.