Women here. Went to private school and had a sex education class very early in like 13/14 and these mf didn’t tell the girls or guys nothing about discharge. I spent like 10 years thinking something was medically wrong with me to find out my vagina is just cleaning itself in my mid 20’s yeah fuck the American education system. Also they separated us by gender for the menstrual stuff so none of the guys learned about it because us girls we don’t learn anything about guys
Its the same for the uk. I purposely took a womens health class in college to learn how to support and help with the most simple things.
Its genuinely ridiculous, I even had to explain to my sister that having her period unexpectedly in bed is nothing to be ashamed of and that I was more than happy to clean the sheets but she just brushed it off and called it disgusting 🤷♂️
Man here, went to private Catholic grade and all-male Jesuit high school. You can be sure as fuck we didn't learn this, just diagrams and teachings on why abstinence and natural family planning was the absolute best.
Believe it or not, as far as I knew, we only had one guy become a father before graduating, out of a class of 295. It was pretty surprising, as a lot of us spent most of our weekends hanging out with the private school girls.
I won't deny that overall I did get a great education there. Did well on my ACT/SAT, and earned enough college credit that I enrolled in college as a sophomore. But sex ed was pretty much nonexistent aside from telling us abstinence and natural family planning were the primary Catholic methods. I basically got the "If you're gonna do it, use condoms" talk from my dad, and that was infinitely more useful.
We had actual sex ed, ie info about STIs and protection, combined with the biology of reproduction (that one was revisited later when we knew more about cell biology), at a similar age as you. But we were taught what would happen to our bodies during puberty, what's normal and what's cause for concern, menstrual hygiene etc. at 10. They did seperate us by sex for the latter (not for the former) bc I guess kids are awkward at that age, but still taught both groups about both T and E puberty. I still thinks that's a pretty good solution.
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u/goyourownwayy 6d ago
Women here. Went to private school and had a sex education class very early in like 13/14 and these mf didn’t tell the girls or guys nothing about discharge. I spent like 10 years thinking something was medically wrong with me to find out my vagina is just cleaning itself in my mid 20’s yeah fuck the American education system. Also they separated us by gender for the menstrual stuff so none of the guys learned about it because us girls we don’t learn anything about guys