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Courting days,
Daily trivia,
One-on-one
The end of a series of sex-education programmes on Channel 4 has prompted this post. I received no sex education at all from my parents, thank God. My mother thought sex an abomination. At secondary school we did not even study biology - science being restricted to physics and chemistry. On just one occasion, we were herded into a darkened classroom to watch a religious film on animal and - by implication only - human reproduction. Then it was back to double maths with no opportunity to ask embarrassing questions. At a different time, in a different place, Emma watched the same film. In her case it was double needlework which precluded discussion. She tells me that when she had her first period, she screamed, thinking she was dying. Her mother said, “This will happen to you every month. From now on, you must stay away from boys.” And that was the sum total of her sex education - until she met me.
The end of a series of sex-education programmes on Channel 4 has prompted this post. I received no sex education at all from my parents, thank God. My mother thought sex an abomination. At secondary school we did not even study biology - science being restricted to physics and chemistry. On just one occasion, we were herded into a darkened classroom to watch a religious film on animal and - by implication only - human reproduction. Then it was back to double maths with no opportunity to ask embarrassing questions. At a different time, in a different place, Emma watched the same film. In her case it was double needlework which precluded discussion. She tells me that when she had her first period, she screamed, thinking she was dying. Her mother said, “This will happen to you every month. From now on, you must stay away from boys.” And that was the sum total of her sex education - until she met me.
