What kind of sex education did you receive in school?

We learned about how rabbits bonk in Biology lessons. That later became one video about what humans do, with no discussion by the teacher afterwards. We were all (aged approx 14) left stunned afterwards that our parents did such things. A playground topic for us all to discuss for weeks afterwards.

No sex education for me in school. I had to learn about it on my own when I was was 11 from my father’s porn magazines and various sections of the encyclopedia. I was totally shocked to learn that my penis would need to go inside a vagina to trigger the process of creating a baby!

In school, I learned Zip — Nada. I do remember the girls in my 5th grade class were taken out of class several times for no announced reason. At the time, they would not talk about what they were being taught in these “girls only” sessions. Found out later, they were mainly advised about their periods, how to deal with them, etc. I learned about the “birds and bees” from my wonderful mother. When I was 11, she became pregnant with a “surprise” child later in life. I think she was about 40. Anyway, she explained to me, in great detail, how she and dad got together to make babies. Mom was “always there” if I had any questions.

Sex education started in the sixth grade for the girls by a female teacher. The girls where separated and went to another room. It was basically about puberty menstruation.

In junior high our gym class watch a medical video of live human birth. There wasn't any questions or discussions after the video. No it wasn't a porn video, I'm sure the girls did also in there class.

In high school most of the sex ed was in health class lasting about 6 weeks. The class wasn't separated by their sex, both boys and girls in same class.

The sex ed srarted before starting puberty all the way to giving live birth in great detail. Safe sex, virgin sex, birth control, STD's, masturbation also in great detail. There where many questions asked with discussions.

So basically the whole nine yards was covered very well IMO. Unfortunately I think some sex ed is needed earlier than it was IMO. TEN classmates of 327 became pregnant before having SEX ED in school.

I graduated public high school in 1965 in New York City. Never had any sex ed. There was a hygiene class in high school, the old guy teaching it called us “fellows”. What little I recall about it was about keeping oneself clean and to avoid bad habits. Nail biting seemed to be a rather terrible thing to do. (His fingernails were short he explained was because he played a string instrument.) The text book we used was from the 1940s.

I think I must have largely learned it on my own because I can barely remember it from my public school education. The first time I can recall the topic being introduced in the classroom was in 5th grade - though, as another person commented, it was more of a class structured around menstruation than anything sexual in nature.

The next time I can recall it coming up in the classroom was 8th grade, I think? Right before high school. I’m pretty sure it was structured into the science class and I can still clearly recall the teacher’s bizarre comment (which I now realize was a nod to creationism) about how she and some of the other students in the classroom definitely did NOT have monkey ancestors… Which must have introduced the topic of sex education?!??

I don’t think it was explicitly taught abstinence only, but it was heavily implied. Don’t have sex or you’ll get these disgusting STDs. Don’t have sex or you’ll end up pregnant at age 15 and your life is over. I honestly don’t remember anything being taught about pregnancy/STI protection, but who knows - maybe it was in there in a heavily censored kind of way. We definitely never practiced the correct way to put on a condom. Again. I went to a rather inner city public school.

Ironically, one of my 14 year old classmates did end up pregnant almost immediately following the sex education portion of the science class. For some reason my mom found this out during parent/teacher conferences and I’ll never forget having an excruciatingly awkward conversation in a Target parking lot with her about how if I ever considered becoming sexually active to please tell her and she’d put me on birth control immediately. I learned everything I needed to know from the books that she gave me to educate myself about my body and remained a virgin until I was in college.

I had so many classmates throughout high school who ended up pregnant - so it was easy to believe at the time that if I ever had sex, I’d end up with an unwanted pregnancy.

All of mine was after school

About 6th or 7th grade, they split the classes between boys and girls in my very Catholic Parochial School. The nurse and gym teacher had the girls, and we had the Chaplain-that's right, a priest.

The actual class was basically biology, mostly focused on boys, but some basics on periods and pregnancy, mainly that they occurred. (I assume the girls also had the same sort of gender focused lecture, barely touching on the male half of the equation) It was basic A&P. Only contraception we were taught was abstinence until marriage. Masturbation was touched on, but again, "it's a sin," although natural nocturnal emissions got a pass.

It was very much "Put tab "A" in slot "B""

Really i can't remember, because my school - days are decades ago !! - but when i think about it, there was very little, what was talking to us young people !!

So, it was common, to take information from the " yellow press ", specially there was a magazin named " BRAVO ", where we learned about some practises regarding our interest's !! - long forgotten times, and noone has had any thought's about possible Internet !! - but all in all, more and more, i ask me the question, if those times wasn't better than nowadays ?? - yes, maybe a bit of romantic, but hopefully allowed here ??

I recall getting some basic sex education in Grade 8 (Junior High School) during boys health class from the Phys. Ed. teacher.

I didn’t get very much sex Ed, because I was homeschooled. I was sheltered from that.

The school system that I was in...... sexual education was pretty much a taboo subject

we did have health class............. there were students in high school that did have a sexual education class around that 10th year....... I was not one of those students..............

didn't need any of their brainwashed Garbage anyway...... by the time I was around 8 years old........ all the pornography and toys.......... Knew everything that I needed to know about sexual education............. many willing partners........ girls and boys😁

For one week in seventh grade (middle school, age 12), girls and boys were separated every day for an hour. We got the basics of sex education including proper hygiene.f

Around that time, I obtained a copy of the book Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid Ask. It was part medical information and part pornography and I read it several times.

The rest of my sex education was mostly misinformation from other boys at school.

I find this topic very interesting, how many had little to no sex ed at school or even at home for the most part. I don't understand why, is naturally growing up going thru puberty becoming sexual such a bad thing??

Hormones changing during puberty leading to be curious and exploring one's self. Masturbation is or was definitely looked down on by most parents. But yet there's no to little sex ed for learning and explaining purposes. Why ???????

Learned nothing in school. Learned from my friends and self experimentation.

I seem to remember one or two lessons aged probably 12 or 13 where we were shown a very old film that went through the biology of reproduction. I think in the following lesson the teacher discussed a bit more about body changes and explaining that spontaneous erections were normal as were wet-dreams. Think there was also a bit of information on the importance of hygiene.

As others have said, I don't remember any mention of contraception, masturbation etc; and even have a vague memory that when one boy asked about masturbation and experimenting with other boys, the teacher basically ignored him 😡.

Fortunately I had an older brother and one of my older sisters who sat me down and brought me up to speed. when the time was right.

Back In 1969, I went to Auto Teck school, where you only learn how to fix car's and trucks, and the shop teacher teaches you how to have a cool and fast car to attract all the cute girls. One of those girls was my wife who had no car when we met, I ended up driving my motorcycle in all types of weather while she was the envy of all her classmates.

1963 Chevy Impala , 396 Big Block Engine and a 4 speed trans, pozzy traction with lockin differential rear end. (Both her and the Car) She Is 1955 Model. Best education you can get. Funny how I was the only one to get speeding tickets.

I too, went to a school of mainly jesuit teachers… We had a Sex Education class. By the way, jesuits are considered to be liberal compared to other priests in the catholic faith. The class was actually taught by a nun (who was in her mid 30s & VERY well endowed😃) in that school. - All of the teachings had to do with the very very basic physical aspects (missionary position only) & what happens during the pregnancy of a woman. I later had Sex Ed in another high school. -This time, it was in public school. It was considered part of my Physical Education (gym) class. -The big difference in the teaching was that in public school, they emphasized how NOT to get venereal diseases. & how not to get someone pregnant… Nothing more.

Guess I was fortunate to discover my Dad’s adult mags back in the day.

From what I remember, we had one lesson, the 'Talk', it was given to us by our male religious education teacher, it wasn't the best, the boys thought it was hilarious, it was more biology that anything else, and what a condom was, it's safe to say, I didn't learn much in that lesson lol❤️

I went to an all boys school here in the UK in the mid 70s. The sex education was in the first year of secondary school. From memory I don't think it was more than one or two lessons. Basically drawing out and labelling the male and female sex organs. All very clinical and factual. And a lesson where we watched a video of a birth, which was enough to scare you for life.

We had ‘Section six’ sex education in first year at secondary school (aged 12), 1977. The pleasure of sex was never discussed, the clitoris was never mentioned, an erection never shown.

Fear of an STD was pushed, abstinence was encouraged.

There were many films and videos, on subjects like stages of development, birth control, birth itself, a woman’s cycle, masturbation, body types, physical layout.

Classes were split and remerged by sex, boys went to one series of lessons in a lecture theatre, girls another.

There was a lot of nudity in the films. For masturbation it was people going into bed under sheets and descriptive narration.

No talking, no looking away, no carrying on, there were always some classmates kept back for the belt afterwards.

In the mid to late 70's in the Northeast US when I was going through puberty, there was no sex education in school. I remember a few awkward conversations with my single mom around 11 or 12. A neighborhood kid I hung around with had the book "Show Me" which was the most sex education I got!

My personal sex education growing up in the 1970's was very similar to almost exactly what @CTGuy43 experienced as I also grew up in the very repressed Northeast, and sadly not near one of the much more big liberal cities, especially for it being the "liberated" 1970's, that was very disappointing. Everything where I went to school was still pretty uptight and the community very old time traditional and conservative as a whole. Even in high school health class, I don't recall much real sex education happening at all. And I am sure today in the school system back home that children's parents are now given plenty of opportunity to "opt out" of any sex education that does take place given how liberal the entire state has now become in the modern era.

I had no sex education in school or from my parents. My mother had two books that I found. Also there was a medical supplement with the encyclopedia set we had. Other than that, I guess I would say I was self tought. Between my Catholic upbringing and lack of actusl knowledge at an early age, that was why I always felt guilt in masturbation and my love for enemas and other sexual pleases.

The only time I received sex education in school was during middle school, back in the mid-2000s.

We were around 13 years old, and a psychologist came to the class to talk about everything—from relationship dynamics and menstruation to contraception... just a brief overview of it all.

Naturally, there was a lot of curiosity among us; we already knew a fair amount, but there was also a lot of confusion. In hindsight, I think it was very useful. However, homosexuality and gender identity were never discussed.

Nowadays, these things are no longer done in schools in my country, for a variety of reasons. Schools are unwilling to invest in this area anymore, fearing the reaction of many parents. Parents themselves don't provide sex education, or if they do, they do it poorly or in a way that can be harmful. Some parents, driven by political views—whether conservative or liberal—fail to provide accurate information, particularly regarding sexual orientation or gender identity.

Young people learn everything from each other, on the web, from ChatGPT... and above all, from porn! And this is a disaster; cases of STDs have risen among the very young.

In recent years, there has been much debate in government about bringing sex education back to schools. The decision was made not to implement it—deciding that teachers shouldn't handle it—due to fears surrounding "gender ideology"...

During the 7th grade, when I was 12, I had my first sex education class, or whatever title they used then. The teacher was very soft spoken, and I couldn’t understand everything she said, but it was about sex, and included warnings against drug use. I recall that she was describing the rhythm method, and said that:” A woman takes her temperature through her anus, to chart her ovulation cycle.” That sentence definitely got my attention. Of course, this was during the late 60’s, so I don’t think that today’s women are charting their cycles rectally.

I don't recall receiving sex education in class, except for two instances that come to mind.

When I was 12 or 13 (in middle school) a nun who usually taught us a different subject was the one who introduced us to the basics of this topic.

Later, at 15 or 16 (in high school), we covered the subject as part of my biology studies, including male and female anatomy and menstrual cycles.

With my parents or family? Certainly not, it was a taboo subject.

Then came the discovery of erotic magazines, where I think I learned a lot.

Mostly it was threatening and inaccurate. Basically, if you have sex, you'll get pregnant and get HIV and die. And don't bother using condoms since it's like trying to stop a mosquito with a tennis racket....the virus can get right through condoms because they're porous.

Being from a predominantly catholic area there was zero sex education at school. We had to learn everything on our own which no kids should have to do.

We didn't have a sex education class at school, but we did have a Life Skills class taught by a school psychologist. Some of her lessons focused on relationships, and she briefly covered contraception as well as what to do if a girl experienced sexual assault or rape. In eighth-grade biology, we briefly learned about menstruation, ovulation, and pregnancy. Our principal was a very strict woman in her seventies, and she often told us during school assemblies and classes how important it was to remain a virgin until marriage.