Sex Education

[Brainwrong]

My son is about to start getting sex ed this year. He is however rightly at the stage where girls are the enemy and any talk of sex, kissing or affection is utterly abhorrent.

I've been informed by the school that the following series of programmes will be used to teach the kids about shagging.

Living and Growing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Straight away it looks like a weird choice for the following reasons

It's absurdly out of date
It's been removed from C4 archive because sex ed is currently under review.
From a personal perspective; when you read that the show describes sex as 'fun' and 'very exciting' you get the vibe it's not really what children should be being told. That's a weird thing to say to a child about sex and a young age.

Thoughts?

 

[Two Headed Boy]

I got Living and Growing in P7 (around 1993ish) and it was nothing to worry about. I learned more in the playground.

I think sensible sex education is important though. Has it actually got worse in the last 10-15 years btw? I only ask because when I returned to Uni aged 26 the complete disregard/ignorance surrounding safe sex I noticed in students aged 18-22, girls in particular, was staggering.

 

[Brainwrong]

I got Living and Growing in P7 (around 1993ish) and it was nothing to worry about. I learned more in the playground.

I think sensible sex education is important though. Has it actually got worse in the last 10-15 years btw? I only ask because when I returned to Uni aged 26 the complete disregard/ignorance surrounding safe sex I noticed in students aged 18-22, girls in particular, was staggering.

Yep, I definitely agree that Sex Ed should be taught & is important.

Has it got worse? I think the main reason for your experience is that non of those students lived through the 80s AIDS exposure. That had a profound and lasting effect on most folk of my age. Almost made us shit scared of shagging sans prophilactic. Which is a good thing. I don't think there is / has been anything like that to generate a bit of healthy fear in the next and subsequent generation(s) of shaggers.

 

[West Lothian Hibee]

I got basic sex ed in p6 can't remember much about it though was too immature and too busy laughing. Then got told all about sti's and stuff like that in high school. But as someone mentioned above learned the basics in the playground (in p1)

 

[ZemmamasBarnet]

Picture the scene...

We were getting Sex Ed in the TV room (which incidentally doubled up as the music room and fitba team changing room) during my time at Mid Calder Primary School.

Not a word is being said other than the incredibly 1950's sounding narrator describing the most beautiful act between a man and a woman in much the same way as you'd describe dissecting a frog.

And I farted. Cue hysterics from all concerned.

Once order had been restored we unfortunately returned to the images on screen which have haunted me ever since. I remember thinking even in those young and naive times (where torture seemed preferable to a kiss or a cuddle from a girl during a the game with the same name) that a man surely cannae just put his thing in a girl and "get comfortable". I vividly recall that that was the end of the matter. He just stuck his thing in, got comfortable and that was it. That was sex according to the mortician-esque narrator.

Fortunately for me I've been a cycnical bastard all my life and have tried my hardest (pardon the pun) ever since to hone my shagging technique.

 

[Doc Shrink]

Fortunately for me I've been a cycnical bastard all my life and have tried my hardest (pardon the pun) ever since to hone my shagging technique.

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I'm probably a bit more experienced than you in mastering the techniques; but the best advice I can offer you for improvement is to stop farting in the middle of the act.


:approve:






Or rather don't start farting in the middle of the act.
:doh

 

[West Lothian Hibee]

Primary 1???? :shock:

I feel sorry for you that your innocence was taken away from you at such a young age.

:console:

Ha. My mum still enjoys telling the story (after a few drinks) of how I turned to her on the bus and told her I knew how babys were made her thinking it was gonna be something daft said where I shouted out a boy puts his penis in a girls gavina. Properly embarrassed her now the story is used to embarrass me.

 

[Chuck Rhoades]

The Yanks were shown this...

'Puberty Pals'

WHAT JUST HAPPENED - PUBERTY - YouTube

 

[SKII]

Yep, I definitely agree that Sex Ed should be taught & is important.

Has it got worse? I think the main reason for your experience is that non of those students lived through the 80s AIDS exposure. That had a profound and lasting effect on most folk of my age. Almost made us $#@! scared of shagging sans prophilactic. Which is a good thing. I don't think there is / has been anything like that to generate a bit of healthy fear in the next and subsequent generation(s) of shaggers.

I don't think it has got worse - this generation have more information at their disposal than any previous generation however they do seem to have more pressures on them in terms of sexual activity at a younger age. The schools tend to have primary schools deliver a simple version of things but in the secondary sector most non-denom schools will bring in people like Caledonia Youth to deliver the sex ed. They deliver a programme called SHARE which is also NHS endorsed.

Caledonia Youth - Providing young people in Scotland with free and confidential services and advice

They also deliver a programme called SHARE Special which was devised for youngsters with learning difficulties and/or special needs.

The Sex Ed in RC schools appears to be somewhat different - most likely because there are issues around contraception that are tricky for them.

Gone are the days of Section Sex in Science. Those of a certain vintage will recall being taught their sex ed for the first time by science teachers in Section Six of the S1 syllabus. (Of course it became Section Sex).