Puberty: Sexual Education For Boys And Girls -1991- English.29l

Retrospective, circa 2024 Reading Time: 5 minutes

The Birds, The Bees, and The VHS Tape: A Look Back at Puberty Sex Ed for Boys and Girls in 1991 Retrospective, circa 2024 Reading Time: 5 minutes The

For kids entering puberty in 1991, sex education was a very different universe than it is today. There were no app notifications about reproductive health. No YouTube explainers. Instead, there was the "Big Split." Let’s take a trip back to the era of slap bracelets, Terminator 2 , and the most cringeworthy 45 minutes of your fifth-grade life. The most defining feature of puberty education in 1991 was the gender segregation . Instead, there was the "Big Split

Let’s be honest: In 1991, mainstream public school sex ed was strictly heterosexual. If you were a boy who liked boys or a girl who liked girls, you were invisible. The curriculum assumed every student would grow up to get married and have 2.5 kids. If you were a boy who liked boys

If you were a tween between the years 1989 and 1993, you likely remember the distinct smell of a school gymnasium turned into a makeshift classroom. It was a mix of floor wax, awkward silence, and industrial-grade hand sanitizer.