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SOME THINGS in life are certain, they say, and the sex education film is one of them. Depending on your vintage the ones you were made to watch may have come from a rattling 16mm projector or a well- worn VHS tape, and featured varying degrees of "accuracy" where the facts of life are concerned. Some will have been eye-wateringly graphic, others so vague as to be essentially meaningless.
I still remember mine. There were lots of diagrams and no nudity. As it ended, Robert McKenna hissed "show us your ovaries" to Beverley Lomas. It was pretty funny at the time - 1978, I think. I'd been paying close attention, of course, so I knew Beverley couldn't show us her ovaries even if she wanted to. But what the film didn't explain was how crabs could pole-vault, something I'd seen mention of in numerous toilet graffiti. I had other questions, too.See the full content of this document
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Birds and Bees the Evolution of Sex Education
Today, teachers and health professionals stress the "targeted" nature of modern sex education films and talk about how much teaching has moved on since the days of the film show in the biology lab. These days, schools and colleges use a variety of interactive teaching resources within curriculum strands such as Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE). The focus is on the emotional, the buzzword is "r...
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