My school was catholic and covered all the "this is contraception, these are STDs, this is all the weird stuff that is happening to your body" requirements, but I really wish they had dealt with some of the emotional aspects of sex, respect towards (potential) sexual partners, negotiating kinks safely, how to say no (and more importantly, how to HEAR no). I feel like a lot of the problems we see in kids today have to do with what they aren't taught (not 100% putting the responsibility on teachers here, but seeing as you can't control what parents teach their children it should at least be covered in schools) as without that their only source about what ACTUALLY happens during sex (and not just how to avoid getting pregnant or STDS) is gathered from film, porn, and stories from peers. And we all know what messages they are sending about sex and respect...

I honestly cannot remember what I learned through school and my parents and what I just discovered on the internet. I actually think the way I learned about everything has fucked me up a bit for sex. My mum always promoted waiting until you're ready and now I'm 19 and still terrified and most definitely not ready, and what I want from reading fic is some picture-perfect relationship from someone who loves me and all the contradictory evidence from real life means that I know that'll never happen. And then school... I think I learned about the biology of everything, but I was never comfortable in classes because of the age difference between me and my classmates and the way everyone was most definitely maturing faster than I was and understood everything and had experience and I was just this little kid who wasn't even quite a teenager for the first year and part of the second and I wanted to hide in a corner every time someone talked about penises ( ... )

Best thing I heard in sex ed was a health teacher telling us "the way to put on a condom so it's 100% effective all the time." She originally said it in response to a male student who was repeatedly a jackass during class, inappropriate and disrespectful, etc ( ... )