From porn to contraceptives, four women reveal what they wish they’d been taught about sex at school
PULLING a condom over a banana or watching the teacher point out reproductive parts on a poster was the extent of sex education for most adults when they were at school.6Netflix's Sex Education, starring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson, has proven a hit
But I was told by girls’ magazines that getting pregnant was the worst thing that could happen – the unfortunate victims always sat in corners crying, heads turned away from the camera. I learnt from older boys’ porn films that sex could be very strange. Why was the man pointing a gun at the women in the bed? I was 13 when a 19-year-old showed me that film, and that is when I date the end of my childhood.
And women’s pleasure was never discussed, either. Our teachers’ mouths stayed as tightly closed about female orgasms and masturbation as our legs were supposed to. As a result, girls thought the best they could hope for was that their boyfriend would have a good time. It would have been beneficial to be taught about my body – how things work, what our bits look like, and that no one’s look the same. I should have been educated about contraceptives – how the
Feelings, emotions, caring for each other and even the word “love” were never mentioned. The language was what you would expect from a plumbing manual.
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