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My school sex education was about as extensive as IKEA flatpack instructions.
There were STDs, pregnancy scares and that childbirth video that’s permanently burned into my brain.
For my first-ever sex ed lesson, we were split into two classrooms—boys and girls— and given some paper and pencils to write down our burning questions before slipping them into a wooden box.
Naturally, as fifth graders, our questions were pretty innocent (and hilariously inaccurate).
"Can you get pregnant from kissing?", "Why don't boys have boobs?" or, my favourite, “How are we meant to get a tampon up our butt?”. Bless our misguided little souls.
Like many of us brought up in the ‘90s and ‘00s, absence was the name of the game.
It wasn’t until years later when I moved schools that I truly learned about the birds and bees, but by that point, I had already torn through the sealed sections of my sister’s stack of Dolly magazines that I’d “borrowed” (stole).
As for everything else, I had trusty Dr Google to rely on. And The Sims, of course.
Fast forward to now and I’d like to say I’m sex-literate.
It may have taken a little while, but I’ve managed to shed (most of) the shame and awkwardness surrounding conversations about sex that so many feel.
So when we hosted a sex masterclass for our Adore Society members, I was like sign. me. up.
I'm always up for learning something new, especially when it comes to a topic as important as this one.
Now, let’s talk about sex, baby.
Keep scrolling for five things I learned at our sex masterclass.
