What Is The Role Of Sexual Education In The 80's

I recognize numerous things have changed since the 80's. There has been much more research conducted on the topic of sexual education. Some are for it some are against it. Our culture is all about sexuality now. Sex sells!!! I remember seeing my mother-in-law's reaction after seeing something she deemed was sexual in nature. She was completely disgusted; however, that is how the people in her generation grew up. Sex and sexuality was never spoke of in that time. Women did not enjoy sex, if a woman enjoyed sex she was a "whore" or a "floozy." Each generation has become more open with sex. I believe the cultural changes and the research are the major causes of the openness.

I figure I had about the same amount of sexual information as you did, since I grew up in the 80's early 90's. I did not have much sexual education, especially since I was an extremely early bloomer. I started going through puberty early on in 3rd grade and had started menstruation in 4th grade. Any knowledge I gained about sex and puberty was from my older friends. I was never one to hang around people my age; many of my friends were at least 2 to 3 years older than I. Of course, beings that they were children themselves, the knowledge I gained was not factual. Upon starting my period, I knew what to expect, but then again, I was unsure since I had only gained my knowledge from my peers. From what I
My parent did not talk to me about puberty and sex. In fifth grade, my school had the sexual education program; however, that was too late to discuss puberty with me since I had already gone through the body and mind changes of puberty. The only thing I remember from that class was the discussion of STDs and the video we were required to watch had a woman explaining that we should never let a boy tell us he is too large to wear a condom, right before she stretched it over her