Memories from sex education at school

[ShinyTurd]

Not even sure where this memory popped up from but I remembered this today and it really made me laugh. When we were having sex education in about year 7/8, this girl put her hand up and said 'miss, do you have to put the willy in' The teacher's response was classic...... 'Well, sometimes it needs a bit of a helping hand, it's not a guiding missile' I've never forgotten that!

When I was 11yrs old the whole class had to watch a video of a family playing volleyball.......naked.
That could have been my family!

During year 6 sex ed we had different words written on pieces of paper and had to match to a description.

One boy picked up the word vagina and said 'miss what is a (pronounced wrong) vagg eye na'
Everyone laughed.

I don't remember much tbh.
In year 9 we had to come up with different terms for sex. One girl came up with 'front bottom meets snake', bless her.
We did the condom on the plastic penis and we were all aghast at how long the rubber smell lasted on our hands.
In science we used to work through modules then have a test at the end. I remember in the reproduction module I deliberately answered some questions wrong on the test so I wouldn't get accused of being obsessed . Kids at my school were mean.

The memory that sticks out (pun intended) was putting a condom on a banana.

Yellow that sounds pretty similar to what I was 'taught'. Think the films were called Roundabout Films, and showed a couple in love, then naked with him on top, next thing I remember is the very graphic baby delivery - couldn't have put me of too much as I have 4 children and am a MW

I remember having the talk in primary school and afterwards being absolutely none the wiser as to what actually happened.

I remember the period talk in Year 7 at Middle school, Tampax in a blue container that flipped open.

All girls church school was dire until an awesome RE teacher started and was very pro sex ed (she was Dutch), made a difference from the Geog teacher telling us to put a phone book on a boys lap if we ever going to sit there!

That was the one Herbie it was a short film so for years I thought you had sex, then out popped a baby a few minutes later. Covered in blood.

The vicar's wife used to deliver the sex education at the genteel "high school for girls" that I attended. As the sessions progressed she became more and more flushed around her neck and face until she was beetroot red.

She talked about "traffic lights" where kissing was green and OK, touching over clothes "Amber" and anything else strictly forbidden.

She concluded by going on an on about "the point of no return" which left us all with the idea that if you overstepped the mark there would be nothing you could do to stop yourself. She also said we should never let a boy get us up against a wall. We were all very thoroughly confused with it all and I remember snogging some boy in a pantry at a party later that year and being very worried that
would suddenly be unable to control my self because of inadvertently passing the point of no return.

Most of my friends are 60 this year, we still have a giggle about it when we meet up for our occasional re-unions.

We had minimals sex ed, although we were told the contraceptives were a sin. Catholic school in the 80s.

An ex work mate had 3 kids, and they didn't know anything about the birds and the bees, anyone .Comes the time for sex ed. Her DD said. I know all about it. How babies are made and I want you to know I think Its disgusting, and I can't believe, that. You've done that 3 times. .

All girls' school here. We talked a lot about consent and not being pressurised into anything, but nothing about the actual process. I think the thinking was that we'd stop consenting before we got to that point

We did also put a condom on a wooden rod, but an outside group came in to do that. The thrust sorry was very much "nice girls don't do that, but if you do for heavens' sake don't get pregnant".

I was quite shocked to find out that an erect penis pointed upwards (I thought it went out at 90 degrees) and that movement was involved in sex - the biology textbooks don't show you that!

In the Lower Vth - the year before O levels, we had a series of talks from the local marriage guidance council, now Relate. This was an all girls school in 1971. The talks covered sex, contraception, std's abortion and anything else we wanted to ask.

It was very awkward - we were an extra form, created from the science divisions and the last 8 in the alphabet from 3 forms and had only ever had science lessons together before. So, when the lady asked the question "would you like to know about a,b,c,d or e?" some brave soul just said "Yes" so she told us about everything on her list.

With the permission of the family concerned, she told us the story of a girl in the year above who found she was pregnant. She and her boyfriend ran off to London and her little brother then aged 3 was saying he was going to sit in the middle of the road and hoped a lorry would come along and kill him, he missed his big sister so much. She told us that, should any of us find out we were pregnant, nothing would be as bad for our families as the distress of that toddler, and urged us - if in the same position - to contact them for help - perhaps for abortion, perhaps other alternatives, but not to run off to London without trace.

Back at a reunion, some 20 years after leaving, one friend who was a school governor said that they were trying to get something like that at their school but it was an uphill struggle against the parents. She said that she hadn't realised that our school was so advanced.

I remember the naked volleyball. What was that about?!

Sex education at school. Probably the closest I ever got to the real thing.