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Did you receive sex ed in school?

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  • #32
    The Dom
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    anncoates wrote: »
    For people brought up in the 80s. no amount of internet porn on tap can ever be a thrilling as copping a pair of French or German tits on Channel 4 when the old pair had gone to bed.

    This could mean one of two things.

    Either you were a teenager in the 80s and by "old pair" you mean your parents, or that in the 80s you were actually going out with an old woman.


  • #33
    kowloon
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    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    Finished school in 2006, never got sex education. They taught us about what a period was when I was fifteen. Bit fcuking late!

    Just because period and colon were mentioned doesn't make it Sex-Ed, that was English class you spanner! :pac:


  • #34
    SpaceTime
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    We had some kind of weird class in Transition Year on marriage guidance / relationships !

    It was absolutely bizarre and had more relevance to a 50-something year old couple who enjoyed baking, gardening and collecting stamps than a bunch of 16 year old guys.


  • #35
    BraziliaNZ
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    anncoates wrote: »
    I distinctly remember a female teacher telling us oral sex was 'gross' and that she didn't 'how people could do it'.

    No Irish person said "gross" in the 80s


  • #36
    kylith
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    In 1994, in first year, we were read select passages from Girl Talk and told to be sure to wash our back bottoms and our front bottoms.


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  • #37
    anncoates
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    No Irish person said "gross" in the 80s

    She honestly did. Maybe that's why it stuck in my mind.

    Not that I need your validation, of course.


  • #38
    SpaceTime
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    No Irish person said "gross" in the 80s

    It depended on whether you'd cable television or just Bog 1 and Bog 2 in which case you probably said some weird RTE expression that was popular at the time like "Stop the lights!"


  • #39
    ShaShaBear
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    Got the talk in 6th class in an all-girls school, and again in first year in a mixed secondary school. Neither talk was even close to as informative as what my parents explained to me.

    They made a go of it again in Transition Year (2004) but the teacher told whopper lies that I confronted him on. He said that contraception was illegal, sperm lived for 30 days in the womb and could catch an egg at any time, and that breastfeeding was a form of reliable contraception, as well as pulling out and douching.
    I got detention, and he got a very pleasant visit from my mother the following morning. Needless to say the class was cancelled.


  • #40
    artanevilla
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    Who's Sex Ed?


  • #41
    Antisocialiser
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    Our sexual education was conducted by our religion teacher, a nun ironically enough, in Year 11. So we would have been about 14. I asked whether or not anal sex before marriage would be wrong in God's eyes and got that little remark placed on my permanent record... which so far has had no consequences whatsoever. In my mind all I was doing was shining a light on the absurdity of the situation.

    But to be fair it was a disgrace, no theory of how things were supposed to work or how to protect oneself was doled out; it was education in the sense that it was bold and we shouldn't do it.

    In science we got the nuts and bolts approach when we were about 12 i.e. sperm goes into the vagina and fertilises egg etc. One of the girls in our class was with a lad when she reached about 16 and told him how she was scared of a guy's ejaculate... she actually thought that it would be just one massive sperm like in the biology textbooks, clearly did not read the "not drawn to scale" label! :pac:


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  • #42
    SpaceTime
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    I just watched Channel 4 late at night and it explained most things! (Again, cable was the internet of those days..)


  • #43
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    In first year we had a sex ed day right before the summer holidays. It consisted of sr Columbus asking if any of us had a boyfriend and then proceeded to tell us we were too young. Think they talked about pregnancy there too but they talked more about drugs.

    Then in 3rd year we had period talks and the lady from tampax gave everyone a free sample thing.

    In 6th year religion class our nice teacher dedicated 2 classes to speak about contraception and options if you faced an unplanned pregnancy.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    The nuns taught me to never sit on a mans lap without a phonebook between us.


  • #45
    Galwayguy35
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    No, then again it was a nun that was the Principal so doubt she would have been too knowledgeable on the subject herself.


  • #46
    gobnaitolunacy
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    Who's Sex Ed?

    That older boy who stayed back a few years and lurked around the bike sheds.


  • #47
    looksee
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    I grew up in the UK, by 16 (in 1963) in my school we had had sex education as part of biology classes, also as a 'social education' class, and a talk by a doctor. Also in the (church)youth club I belonged to we had occasional talks on different aspects of sex and development. It was nobody's fault if we didn't know the theory anyway!


  • #48
    SpaceTime
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    looksee wrote: »
    I grew up in the UK, by 16 (in 1963) in my school we had had sex education as part of biology classes, also as a 'social education' class, and a talk by a doctor. Also in the (church)youth club I belonged to we had occasional talks on different aspects of sex and development. It was nobody's fault if we didn't know the theory anyway!

    I think in the UK it very much depends on the school and the individual teachers though. If anything things have regressed since the liberal days of the 1960s.


  • #49
    Tiddlypeeps
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    They kicked all the boys out of the class for an hour in 5th or 6th class in primary school so they could teach us about periods and stuff. The class mostly giggled through the whole thing.

    In 1st or 2nd year we did reproduction in science class. That teacher was amazing, she didn't have to teach anything more than the core biology stuff but she did a really in depth question and answer session that the class surprisingly took seriously. Most people knew the basics of sex at that point anyway but loads of people had strange questions usually revolving around how to avoid pregnancy. Stuff like can you get pregnant from oral sex etc. It was really nice of the teacher to do that because that was in the very early 00's when the internet wasn't really a thing many people had access to so people usually only had the word of other teenagers in the know to go on.


  • #50
    kowloon
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    No Irish person said "gross" in the 80s

    Except for that one fcuker who went to America for two weeks during the Summer holidays and came back speaking the lingo.


  • #51
    old hippy
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    Nope. A biology lesson in first or second year; that was it. Really, it should be mandatory for 9 or ten years olds. We were already talking about it at that age amongst ourselves but that was all wild speculation!


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  • #52
    Shenshen
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    I grew up in Germany, we had sex ed from 5th grade (aged 8 or 9) onwards, it formed part of the biology curriculum up until leaving.

    By the time we reached age of consent (14) we were almost bored to tears by the concept, so I guess it did work rather well in that sense.


  • #53
    The Dom
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    No Irish person said "gross" in the 80s

    Well we had a teacher that, when we were talking in her class, used to scream at us: "Enough already, haven't I warned you both about talking!"

    Then after the class we'd be like: "The dame said enough already. Why you don't listen to the broad, man?" etc

    You have to remember we only five or six TV stations back then and MASH, The Cosby Show, Cheers etc were the shows getting the highest viewing figures. and so it's only natural that some people would use use expressions they heard on those shows.

    Sure a mere seven or eight years after that, when Friends came along, every fcuker was walking around talking like they were yanks.

    I know it's the pits, but whadda goin' do.


  • #54
    old hippy
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    I grew up in Germany, we had sex ed from 5th grade (aged 8 or 9) onwards, it formed part of the biology curriculum up until leaving.

    By the time we reached age of consent (14) we were almost bored to tears by the concept, so I guess it did work rather well in that sense.

    That's the way it should be but to some people it's the end of the world if you suggest education is better than ignorance. If we were only more open and honest about sex... I imagine there would a lot less repression, self loathing and hatred about. Hatred of the body, the sexual act, hatred of women, of men, of gays and so on...


  • #55
    Galwayguy35
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    Twas the brother that actually told me when I was 10 that the mickey had other uses as well as peeing, subject was never mentioned by the parents.


  • #56
    DazMarz
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    A bit of sex ed in primary school, which was the subject of much giggling, sniggering and blushing.

    But it was in secondary school that some of us were scarred for life. Impressionable 14 year olds the lot of us. Our science teacher (a mad lad from Cork) took great fun in showing slides of penises and vaginas that were riddled with STI's and what kind of STI's they were. It was horrific. I never was so close to puking over just a picture in my life.

    I also remember being given a book when I was about 13. "Growing Up" or something it was called. Now that I look back on it, that was some dangerous piece of religious propaganda; fair enough, it had some good advice on avoiding drink, drugs and so on. But the biscuit was taken by the passages calling masturbation evil, not engaging in sex until married, that oral sex was something that only married people should engage in, pornography in all its forms was evil, that ever sexual position apart from missionary position was depraved, that gays and lesbians were abominations and so on. The worst part was, this book was being aimed at impressionable young teenagers and it contained the most horrendous backward "advice" ever.


  • #57
    Michael D Not Higgins
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    Sometime around 5th/6th class we had a woman come in to give us sex education. Told us the basics and let us write anonymous questions on a piece of paper to put in a hat. She skipped most of the questions. "What's a 69?" "I don't think anyone here wants to know that" Of course they do, that's why they wrote it down!

    Got more in secondary school around 3rd year I think. Fearless guy giving it to about 200 lads. One question that came up was "what happens if you're doing anal and the girl farts?" "then there would be a bad smell".

    Oh and had one teacher telling us masturbation would lead to us not enjoying sex, premature ejaculation and a host of other things.


  • #58
    flyton5
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    My school just gave you a muttered warning to stay away from the janitors room.


  • #59
    MurdyWurdy
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    Yes, we did have quite a bit. A lot if it was about stds. The phrase "cottage cheese like discharge" was said way too much.


  • #60
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    Aside from actually engaging in it when I was twelve: Me and the lads getting our hands on a copy of this when we were 10 was about as much sex education as I got in my school years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNjcSF_OKFM

    After that - maybe about age 16 - I remember some external couple coming in to our school and having an hour talk with us on a class by class basis - but it was so useless I can not remember a single thing about it except for one lad in the class who expressed amazement that there was actually two SEPERATE passage ways down there for the man to enter - and for urine to leave - which everyone seemed to find quite hillarious at the time.

    I can only hope - as some people on this thread and the age of consent thread are claiming - that things have improved in the 18ish years since then.


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  • #61
    BraziliaNZ
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    anncoates wrote: »
    She honestly did. Maybe that's why it stuck in my mind.

    Not that I need your validation, of course.

    Nothing is valid without my approval


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