Curious

I couldn’t see my old school having that NZQA standard in its curriculum!

My sex ed was pretty much what we’ve been learning in school since I was 12 - the reproductive system and (hetero)sexual intercourse. Never were there homosexuality or gender queer issues brought up.

It’s a shame, ‘cause it forces you to go off and look up things on the internet (where not everything is safe and okay for a 15 year old to read) or in my case read every book I could find on subject.

I get a lot of straight friends asking all kinds of things about homosexuality and sex and stuff. Even they wish they were more educated. The more people know, perhaps the more people won’t give a crap.

It was disgusting when I got told I couldn’t pass my health class in form 3 unless I completed the quiz on (hetero)sexual intercourse.. something I found quite distasteful and gross. D:

we had an awesome 3rd form health teacher ....
We watched, hetero porn and lesbian porn and gay porn lol…. that was our introduction to the different ways a human body bends for pleasure….

then we had the talk on STI’s, safe sex - she was brilliant, she always referred to everything generically…. so none of this, when a man and a woman…. it was always when two adults. Far more pleasant…. We were due to have Miss Ribena talk to our class, but our health teacher retired before it was organised….

what my school called “sex ed” was exactly the same as what a primary (or intemidate school) would call puberty lessons it was shit!
i would have loved to learn about sexual orinitation, and gender while at school
one of the girls in my yr10 class, whose parents are in a polyamourus relationship (her mum and dad and thir girlfriend plus all the girlfriends kids all live together as a family) , asked the teacher if we’d learn about polyamoury and monogamy and was yelled at for reading the idctionary too much so she walked out and didnt come back for the rest of the year, not that i blame her.
because we werent taught all this sexuality, sex, and gender stuff in those first few years we’ve had many babies born to girls between the ages of 14 and 19 while still at school and i tried to convince myself i was straight because i thought it wasnt normal to be gay since it wasnt talked about ever.
first time i knew about it within a school enviroment (i have gay uncles who’ve been together since before i can remember) was a flamboyant guy who was rather stuck up so i didnt take much notice of him. it wasnt till i met someone out of school who’d done it all before that i came out to not only myself but to my friends and family.
i wish that school would teach this sort of thing because if we dont tell kids that no matter what their sexual orintation is they are normal they will never feel right.
also if it were taught in school then schools might actually think twice about violating a persons human rights and let kids take thier same sex partners to thier school balls (sorry person pet peeve with me lol)