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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Guessing this was prompted by my post in the Arthur thread?

I would say maybe early teens, but not as in, positions or anything ( ) but like, how to do it safely. Same as how I think vaginal sex should be 'taught' really.

Random thing I learnt recently about sex ed..seems theres actually a bit of a push on right now for teachers to focus more on the 'pleasure' side of things when doing sex ed in general. I know some seem to think this is the 'progressive' way to go, but honestly it makes me feel a bit ill. And I think any teacher who would be happy with doing a sex ed lesson with, say 14 year olds and being willing to tell them what positions to try and tell them what you find pleasurable and stuff..should be nowhere ****ing near any classroom.

Of course pleasure is an important part of (good) sex however, I do not think its appopriate at all to go into stuff like that with underage people. Prudish of me, maybe but..ugh no.

That must be very recent, I think I finished looking at Sex Ed 4 years ago and we didn't talk about how sex could be enjoyable. I agree with you completely, I don't think it's necessary, and I really don't think it's appropriate to detail it in such a way. Saying "it should be enjoyable" is good! But to discuss positions is... wow

(Bearing in mind I went to a Catholic school, so if it has been something introduced in the past few years I wouldn't put it past me for mine to completely omit it)

On that note, I remember I was thinking "uhm are you allowed to do that?" when my friend wrote about anal sex (which we weren't taught) in his sex ed essay

I wonder what the curriculum is for sex ed in non-Catholic schools. Our sex ed was split across Biology (we did a few lessons on it in Year 7) and then everything else (ethics, STIs, consent, law, etc) in Religious Studies (and of course, Christian attitudes to contraception). And even then I don't remember any sex ed from Year 7 Biology, just most the class in uproar because the teacher said "penis" and she said "it's okay I'll let you all laugh about it for a minute".
I really think I/we should've been taught about anal sex when contraception came up. We barely even talked about how condoms help prevent the transmission of STIs because our teacher was so religious she was against talking about and encouraging artificial contraception there does seem to be a myth still that gay people can just, not use a condom because they can't get pregnant, and it would've helped if they sat with us and said, "use one. You will probably get STIs without them")