I just, oddly enough, remembered the first official 'sex education' lesson had at primary school, when I was aged around 9/10. I don't know what the rules were at schools but I think sex education was a relatively new concept to Schools, and had no clear direction or set "manual".

All I remember was a whole term of embarassing silences, giggles and note passing...and girls and boys were done in DIFFERENT groups and not together. Anyone recall such experiences? Ours was done by the Headmaster, and a brown sleeved booklet full of ridiculous conservative style cartoons of 'gentlemen' at railway stations with bowler hats chatting up 'secretaries' from the Office at kings Cross railway station. I assume this was standard education Department but you tell me!!!!! Newspaper style cartoons showed the whole process with (very very) dated text commentary about the 'marital partner' and his/her roles and 'obligations' to the other!!!

The Headmaster. clearly embarrassed, simply read from the text, and allowed no question and answer sessions, and had to leave the room at several points.......

At our old-fashioned, all-boys grammar school in the mid '50's, I remember our one and only sex education lesson.

The biology teacher came in one day and announced, completely out of the blue, that the lesson would be about, " how a baby is born and the events leading up to it. " [!] There was a stunned silence, and as far as I can remember the teacher's face was completely red throughout the whole 40 minutes.

Despite what we probably all hoped, there was nothing remotely interesting, still less erotic, about any of it. The diagrams he drew on the board looked like an electical circuit or a plumbing system. The language he used was, I'm sure, deliberately technical and obscure------and of course no-one dare ask him to explain it in simpler terms !

It's lucky that Brigitte Bardot was on in a few films at that time. I'm sure I learned more from them !

We had to take a letter home to see if our parents would let us have the lesson:roll:

All I remember was a whole term of embarassing silences, giggles and note passing...and girls and boys were done in DIFFERENT groups and not together. Anyone recall such experiences? .

I remember something along those lines and at the end we had a test, the teacher said the test was for self assessment and would not be marked or recorded as they didn’t want anybody having the bragging rights of coming top of class in sex education.

Mum. What have you done today at school?

Son. I came top of the class in sex education.

:blush: :hihi:

we never had lessons about sex education at our school in the sixties,most of us learned the basics off susan and diane,usually on the school field after tea time..