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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I vaguely remember the "sex ed" video our Catholic elementary school showed as an optional parent/kid evening event. The most direct it got about sex was a line drawing of a cow and a bull, then a dotted line arrow appeared from the bull's crotch area to the cow's, as the narrator said, "The male inserts his penis into the vagina of the female..." then stuff about the sperm fertilizing the egg. We were left completely clueless until we figured out the details by trial and error in high school.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The look on your faces when you found out that you didn't even need cattle for it!

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I grew up rural too, but in a less conservative area, and... Honestly, it made for some hilarious moments in sex ed.

I think the crowning moment was in high school health class - at the start of the sex ed unit, they split us up by gender, and had both groups try to draw both reproductive systems as a baseline for what we knew. Both groups did pretry well with the male stuff, but there was a stark (and unexpected) difference in the diagrams of the female reproductive system:

The girls group did an excellent job of drawing and labeling a vagina, but almost none of the internal bits.

The boys group, though... One dude had noticed something about the general shape of female reproductive system in an earlier class, and came up with a his own mnemonic for it: turns out, you can sketch oit the general layout of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and birth canal pretty neatly over the dodge ram logo.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hayward, Calif - small suburban city next to Oakland

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man my catholic school made us label the vas deferens in 6th grade. Mind you they also told us condoms don't prevent the spread of hiv.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my catholic school made us label the vas deferens in 6th grade

Hopefully not on yourself with marker lol

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Nah on the priest of course