Felicity Frankish shares the gaping holes in her sex-ed classes and shares all she knows about ovulation.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who remembers those awkward classes we were embarrassingly subjected to in our teenage years. Putting condoms on bananas; videos of hair growing in places we never had it before; the changing female body; men with their voices changing overnight – each one was met with stifled giggles as we tried to hide our mortification.
The safe-sex talks were just as emotionally damaging. I remember role-playing different scenarios and wanting to die a thousand deaths in the process. It seemed the one thing drilled into us over and over was that if we didn’t want to get pregnant, abstinence was key. I walked away from the classes feeling reassured of the fact that if we had to go to all these measures to prevent it, surely falling pregnant would be easy when the time came.