Rhymes and reasons : how eight people learnt about sex.

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<p>The film shows eight different people talking about their experience of sex education. They are interviewed individually and in pairs; they are of different ages and backgrounds. The recurring message is that official sex education was lacking and it was primarily through their own research or peers stories that they have educated themselves. Themes covered include the birth of siblings, menstruation, pornography, rumours, stealing of contraceptives, basic or confusing films at school, going to dances and the cinema, bragging, D. H. Lawrence and the female sexual response, flirting, disability, magazines, agony aunts, loss of virginity and parents.</p>

Rhymes and reasons : how eight people learnt about sex.

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