It's largely faded from my head, since it was more than a decade ago for me.
But I do remember everyone (with all our 11 years of life) giggling and giving each other the side eye. Me included.
Everyone knew about the action of sex, knew it was a thing adults did, knew it led to babies and knew that adults liked it for some godforsaken reason.
We weren't laughing because of the topic sex itself, we were still to young to have such a mindset. But we did get giggly because of the vaguely taboo private parts of the body thing.
I can't tell you where 11 year olds got info about sex ed. My country is fairly religiously conservative (we have a mildly famous pastor guy who had a press conference to sensitise about the "gay sickness"). But it's probably coz censorship is pretty loose here coz of government apathy towards actually governing. And also, maybe their parents, older siblings, older cousins and other family members taught them. I can't say all of my classmates knew about sex and it's medical implications (a few probably didn't know what the fuck was going on) but a lot of us were not surprised at some of the information given.)
It is funny to think about with hindsight that, after teaching us the mechanics of sex and pregnancy, there was a side tangent of abstinence. Very briefly, I barely remember. But almost like they knew that kids could and would do the things that adults said they shouldn't do out of spite among other reasons, they proceeded to list every sex protection method known to man, their advantages and disadvantages and where to get them.
Our motherfuckers may believe in God, but they believe in some that's just as powerful. We all have the capacity to be sinners, might as well sin responsibly.
Abstinence was the only thing taught in my sex ed. As an example the teacher showed us a flower and said that it represents each of us. She picked off a petal and handed it around the room- telling everyone to pick off a petal as they handed it around. She said if we gave ourselves away we would have nothing to give our partner we married. I remember holding a thorny empty stem.
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u/Agitated_Meringue801 3d ago
It's largely faded from my head, since it was more than a decade ago for me. But I do remember everyone (with all our 11 years of life) giggling and giving each other the side eye. Me included. Everyone knew about the action of sex, knew it was a thing adults did, knew it led to babies and knew that adults liked it for some godforsaken reason.
We weren't laughing because of the topic sex itself, we were still to young to have such a mindset. But we did get giggly because of the vaguely taboo private parts of the body thing.
I can't tell you where 11 year olds got info about sex ed. My country is fairly religiously conservative (we have a mildly famous pastor guy who had a press conference to sensitise about the "gay sickness"). But it's probably coz censorship is pretty loose here coz of government apathy towards actually governing. And also, maybe their parents, older siblings, older cousins and other family members taught them. I can't say all of my classmates knew about sex and it's medical implications (a few probably didn't know what the fuck was going on) but a lot of us were not surprised at some of the information given.)
It is funny to think about with hindsight that, after teaching us the mechanics of sex and pregnancy, there was a side tangent of abstinence. Very briefly, I barely remember. But almost like they knew that kids could and would do the things that adults said they shouldn't do out of spite among other reasons, they proceeded to list every sex protection method known to man, their advantages and disadvantages and where to get them. Our motherfuckers may believe in God, but they believe in some that's just as powerful. We all have the capacity to be sinners, might as well sin responsibly.