When I started Senior School, the girls in the first year were given a book to take home and read. The other day I was trying to remember what it was called. I thought it was something like ' The Facts of Life ' but thought I'd google it. I couldn't find the one we were given but the following popped up !
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ReplyDeleteThey really believed that we should do that !!! XXXX
DeleteSure this wasn't 1860??
ReplyDeleteI think it was a bit earlier than the 60's but not a lot !!! XXXX
DeleteMy goodness, I wonder if anyone actually followed the advice?
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that many women did .... I even think there are still a few women who that do, after a fashion ! XXXX
DeleteThis sounds like it was from the US and does not sound British to me. I remember the Facts of Life pamphlet given to our parents when I was 12. It was not passed to me because my mother believed sex education was the job for parents. I saw a copy at school and it contained diagrams like a biology book. We had some advice about men later at 16 about always knowing where the door was when alone with a man.xx
ReplyDeleteYou could be right Rachel but there was an element of that here. I think the one the school gave us was a thin hardback book { I even remember it being pale blue ! } and we were told to give it to our parents first ! I remember the diagrams ! I'm pretty sure that we were never spoken about it again in our school...... we just got on with it ! XXXX
DeleteI am speechless! A man's world. Thank goodness we don't follow that advice.
ReplyDeleteI know Carol ! .... and, I bet, even today it goes on but not to such a degree { hopefully } !
DeleteNow that is some interesting history: Sex education in the 50's-60's! How things have changed! Girls, we've come a long way...
ReplyDeleteWe certainly have, Susan. XXXX
DeleteHysterical! Being a bit younger, we got no book but had a snazzy film to watch instead, featuring cartoonish diagrams of bits and bobs and then footage of the animal world with an earnest voiceover. I think we probably had parental permission to see it because some time later, my mother asked, all faux nonchalence, if I knew about "periods and all that stuff" and horrified, I said yes, and she said "oh, good" and the subject was dropped to mutual relief, hahah.
ReplyDeleteThat was pre-puberty and during the film the boys rolled around laughing while the girls made ewww noises. Then as a teen we had Health classes and it was really more like biology classes and there was no "advice" about the how-to-do-it to be seen! xx
I guess ours was hush hush ..... I think we all read our book on our own in our rooms ! ! Not a word was spoken about anything at school and I think my mum and I had a very similar exchange !! I think nowadays, parents go into the finer details when their children are about 3 🤣 !!! I don't think that's right either ! XXXX
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