Fire_Arrow
Our school system has us discuss sex, pregnancy and puberty in health class with a large group of both boys and girls. I really feel that it's good for people of both sexes to be able to talk about it together, so that we can see both sides of the story, and understand each other.
And at the end of class, we are all given slips of paper. Our health teacher tells us to just write down an embarassing questions we might have, so that no one will know it was you who asked. If you don't have a question, just write anything down, so that no one will feel uncomfortable that they are the only one writing anything. The next day, she reads them aloud. Some of them I can see why the author didn't ask in front of everyone. I think that's a good system, because then you don't have to be afraid of asking.
Anyhow, I believe that Sex Ed shouldn't be made into a big deal by seperating people and everyone acting awkward. Homones hapen to everyone, so I don't know why it has to be kept a secret.
We had this little session about it in gr.6 and our guest speaker did the same thing with us. If we had a question we could write it down and then stick it in the box they had. It was really awkward, and people were giggling and everything.
And in grade 8 we did sex ed again but it was mostly about abstinence and diseases..thank goodness we didn't have any visuals. One time in class we were listing ways to express love for our 'partner' other than sex, and this one really quiet kid who seemed to be very uncomfortable about the whole sex ed thing said "take a shower together". Our class burst out laughing, it wasn't the actual suggestion that was so funny but the fact that he said it.