I always wondered what became of The Grapevine Game. So I was very pleased to see that The National Youth Agency has been updating it, giving it a new title - Sexplanation! - and providing it with "a 21st-Century makeover" (CYP Now, 25 June-1 July).
I suppose I must have discovered The Grapevine Game almost as soon as it was launched in the early 1990s. And the discovery was quite by chance. I had a student on placement who had decided to organise a girls-only residential weekend in the middle of nowhere with a theme around sex and relationships education. She initially left me out of her plans but then the group needed a driver for the minibus. So on that basis, and with one golden rule, I went along.
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