@ekoorb9 Ooh that’s pretty bad!

I had the condom on the fake penis class too at 15. At 13 they played us an abstinence video which was just a bunch of teenagers saying how much they regretted having sex with their partner and that it ruined their relationships! Terrible! I went to an all-girls school and this was like, 10 years ago so I’m really hoping things have got better! 

The girls in my grade (at a co-ed school) went on an excursion for sex ed once. Otherwise, it was kind of just anatomy, a list of STIs and some basics on contraception. We did watch an extremely dated video about how god won’t punish you for masturbating as well. It was a good start, but I think we could have done with a lot lot more. Particularly around how sex actually works in real life, e.g. with issues of consent, someone not wanting to wear a condom, it being generally awkward sometimes etc.

@HappyHooHah omg I think I watched that same video!!! Did it feature super cringey Australian accents? 

I’d be really interested to know what sex ed in schools is like currently? When I was in HS (many moons ago) it was not inclusive in the slightest and didn’t really go past the basic condom process…..

Ah yeah @veryelle definitely the same for my experiences in HS, the STI’s were always demonized and framed in such a negative way that kind of scared you off from wanting to engage with sex in any way? Which is just sO counterproductive,,,,,

YESSS 100% sexual education needs to be broader!!! Bringing more into the curriculum is such a hard thing to do though, education policy just makes it so freaking difficult to get any new information through the system, especially when it’s something so controversial like SEX?????

SAPPSS sounds like such a cool program! I’m glad your sister was exposed to such a cool program, even if her sexual health education was still limiting. There IS another cool initiative like this called FemPower, which is full of rad people who go to schools to educate on feminist issues and female empowerment! Highly recommend giving that a look!

Sex ed at my all girls high school seriously sucked!
I barely remember anything it was so average.
Highlights were a lesson where we were shown a HORROR slide show of different pictures of genitalia infected with untreated STIs (WTF AHHHH). Scare tactics much. And now i think of it the point of traumatising us like this wasn’t around getting tested and treating STIs before they progress it was about always using a condom and abstinence.
Another weird thing we did was CONDOM RACES? (any one else do this!!!????) we literally lineup and had to run down to the end of the class room and put a condom on a banana as fast as we could. Then the next person in your team would run down rip it off and put a new one on that poor banana. Thinking about it why were we taught to rush putting on a condom – now i know its pretty important to take your time making sure that bad boy is fitted on a penis properly and i never rush it.

@sextronaut i feel ya girl i so wish i learnt about female orgasms ESPECIALLY CLITORIS ORGASMS (had to wait a bit longer to work that one out for myself hahaha). I think that would of helped me feel less embarrassed about enjoying orgasms when i was younger also.
i also wish i learnt more about testing and treating STIs instead of just prevention, especially since reality is 1 in 5 young people get an STI these days!

@tea there would be a diagram of a female reproductive system, for instance, front on. So the uterus, fallopian tubes and cervix were labelled and you could see the mons pubis and labia majora but non of it was labelled! There were just body parts and no words. 🙁

@curiousss the races sound hilarious!

I also remember learning about sex, drugs, and drink driving all at the same time and the fear tactics they used for taking drugs were the same as having sex/contracting an STI. So at the time, contracting an STI seemed equivalent to overdosing on drugs. WHAT! I remember them bringing in a man who had sex with men, contracted HIV and told us that his life was over. Worst education ever. For anyone who’s wondering, contracting an STI/HIV is NOT as dangerous as overdosing on drugs and is most certainly not the end of your life. My school sex-ed was just ridiculous.