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| Subject: Sex education inadequate for same-sex safety Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:50 pm | |
| For my mum, as a teenager at a country high school in the mid 1960s, sex education consisted of being ushered into a building along with the other girls, to watch a clinical film about "reproduction".
Decades later my friend Holly, at a Catholic school in Wollongong, was simply warned by a nun not to hold hand with boys, because "that is a slippery slope to sin".
And at a Sydney public high school in the mid 1990s, a physical education teacher dutifully told my friend Kate's class about the existence of HIV, but added the caveat "only drug users and gay people get it ... and I hope that's none of you in here!"
Ask any group of friends or family about their memories of sex education at school and you'll get a mixed bag of giggles, awkward questions, condoms unfurled on fruit, useful information, stark omissions and the odd infuriating furphy. (I'm happy to say Kate, who is a lesbian, marched out and reported that PE teacher to her principal. The teacher later apologised.)
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/sex-education-inadequate-for-samesex-safety-20140724-zw550.html |
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