OK
We played a "game" where everyone had a glass of water except for one person who had ribena. We had to swap bits of our drinks and pretend to be at a party. At the end they said "now you all have STDs".
2008
Bad
First sex education lesson in school started with a rape joke.
2005
OK
Some strange video from the perspective of a sperm on it’s journey from inside the man to inside the woman ...
2003
Bad
One lunchtime session with the drama teacher, a banana and a condom.
2005
Bad
All I can remember is a teacher walking into class with a plastic briefcase, and inside was a ‘fake penis’. We all got to put a condom on it and that was that!
2008
Bad
Condoms, cucumbers and brit-pop made for a weird combination... "Girls who are boys. Who like boys to be girls. Who do boys like they're girls. Who do girls like they're boys”
2004
Non Existent
By the time my parents sat me down for the birds and the bees chat I was already clued up, they were TOO late! I learned the main deets from the playground, and about periods from another girls older sister.
No one taught us about self-respect. But the ‘Position of the Fortnight’ in More! magazine did step in at various important milestones in my more informative years. But maybe these things should be taught, alongside waiting to meet the right person, and then when you do how to play it safe!
1989
GREAT
I remember in Year 5 our teacher started with “We're going to spend as long on this as you need to feel like all your questions are answered” - in my memory it took up most of the week!
I also remember her, in the 'mechanics' of sex, talking about how "one or both partners move their hips to make it feel even nicer" - great tip Miss Lee!
1993
Bad
I think I learned most of my sex-ed from cosmopolitan and sex and the city
2009
OK
I remember my parents buying me a book in reception which showed pictures of people having sex on space hoppers
2002
BAD
My sex ed was pretty bad and I knew it at the time. I was told that people only had sex if it was a man and a women who went on many dates then fell in love. At the time I put my hand up and disputed it. I was told to shut up by my teacher.
2018
Bad
Graphic births and STD visualisations
2015
OK
I received the "talk" with my parents when Sarah Louise got pregnant in Coronation Street.
#storylinesgotgame
2000
Bad
We got sex-ed in school. Too much emphasis hearing about what to fear as opposed to how to understand consent, relationships or pleasure.
2018
Bad
We watched a video of a DOG giving birth!
2005
Non Existent
One religious studies teacher (middle aged conservative man) talked about safe sex and of contraception. I was horrified by the jellyfish (diaphragm) and then the bell rang.
2009
Non Existent
We had chastity day! People came to school to tell us how 'cool' it was to not have sex, before we got to roll dice. Every time you rolled a six, you were pregnant!
2008
BAD
I didn’t even know that women could orgasm till I watched a late night episode of Sexcetera at a friends house years later. And that episode was all about balloon fetishes.
2006
Bad
We watched a video of a load of males chasing after a ball pretending to be sperm
2009
Non Existent
Our teacher explained contraception by putting on a video of a singing condom
2005
Bad
Taught to apply a condom to a large blue plastic penis by a man later convicted of sexually assaulting minor.
2004
Bad
Age 11 we were shown a full frontal video of a real life woman giving birth...the boy next to me threw up on my shoe
2004
Bad
The girls got an assembly about periods, contraception etc. but we got nothing! (and thus I still don’t really understand periods)
2004
BAD
We were split by gender and taken into the girl/boys bathrooms. The teacher was so vague with her language, avoiding saying vulva/vagina.
2004
BAD
I went to a catholic school and we were taught that sex only belonged in the sacrament of marriage. Our religious studies teacher also warned that contraception was against god and he actively advocated for the ‘rhythm’ method, which had allegedly served him well so far. He has 5 children.
2009
Non Existent
The closest thing I had was a watching a sex scene from Romeo and Juliet and learning about your sexual reproduction organs for science gcse!
2004
BAD
Despite going to an all girls school, we were never taught that women could (and should) enjoy sex. The focus was on the importance of the man achieving orgasm and the ‘glorious sperm race’.
2006
BAD
Had to explain to the girl next to me that boys didn’t have periods (we never learnt about actual sex, just the gcse biology stuff)
2012
Bad
The shame of being told that we were receiving the HPV vaccine because it is most effective in those that aren’t yet sexually active - woops
2008
Bad
In primary school, we had a lesson about chickens reproducing that went dangerously near the idea, and then sex was never mentioned again in any of my education. T
1996
Non Existent
Our teacher got distracted by Michael Jackson dying and ended up talking about that instead
2009
Bad
Boys had to go in a different room when girls were learning about periods, so even now guys in their 20s don't understand periods
2005
Bad
Crap videos and condoms on bananas, led by the most terrifying teacher! definitely left me scared and unprepared !!
2018
OK
Science teacher doing his best by letting us write questions on paper and put them in an anonymous box before he read them out (‘is lube cold?’ being the only one I remember)
2003
BAD
We were never taught that women could (and should) enjoy sex. The focus was on the importance of the man achieving orgasm and the ‘glorious sperm race’.
2006
Great
Mum bought a couple of books that were pretty good to be fair, one was called ‘living with a willy’, they lived secretly under the laundry bin
2005
OK
I remember the classic condomed cucumber and various videos of how women give birth and how men get erections.
1999
Bad
Abstinence to avoid STIs, pleasure was avoided and the normal-ness of tentative-ness wasn't mentioned.
2004
BAD
Literally nothing. Actually that's not quite right - in Biology (aged 15) we did have to draw a penis out of a biology book (except it looked like something made in Doctor Who props department circa 1970) and a vagina (which looked like ivy climbing up and around a small cottage). That was it. Nothing at home. Nothing with siblings. Nothing on telly. And consequently early sexual experiences and relationships were comical (looking back) and disastrous (at the time).
1969
BAD
Throughout school my mum refused to talk about the fact I might be starting to think about / have sex - instead whenever the topic came up she’d tell me “you have a reputation to maintain”.... I went to school in the 90s! Not the Victorian era
1993