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Feature: Relationships and Sex Education - What I Wish I Had Learned about Sex

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From September 2019 relationships and sex education (RSE) will be a statutory requirement for all schools in England. Young people and adults share their experiences and hopes for a new curriculum

ELISE, 15

When I was in year 5 the boys went into a separate classroom from us girls and we were all told about the special parts of our bodies and the changes that would take place. Amid the giggles I learned a substantial amount about what was supposed to grow and where and what I was destined to experience in a few years. But sadly that was all.

When I was around 13 I remember having one hour learning about different types of contraception and how it would protect me against diseases (which they ever so kindly showed us pictures of) but I was never once told anything positive. I was left questioning sex and everything surrounding it.

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