What do you wish could have been part of sex ed?

Jumpy_Cold_9659 · 2025-10-12T02:19:01+00:00

More thorough education on absolutely everything.

myboobiezarequitebig · 2025-10-12T04:09:55+00:00

That women have three holes down yonder. I meet a concerning number of adult men and women that think women pee out of the vagina 😭

Makuta_Servaela · 2025-10-12T04:58:31+00:00

Women's urethras being in the vulvas, but not the vaginas (and how men not washing their dicks may correlate with female UTIs)
In general, the difference between the vulva and the vagina.
The benefits of female armpit hair and pubic hair (reducing chaffing for the former, and keeping the vulva clean for the latter), and the normalization of leaving the hair where it is.
The entire clitoral structure. It's not just the little nub, it's an entire organ that wraps around the vagina.
The prostate (no reason for men to be barred from enjoying a whole orgasm node they have).
The fact that most things people think about the hymen are a myth.
The fact that most "XYZ 'woman thing' being this insanely and traumatically painful is normal" is wrong (ex. IUD insertions, period cramps, vaginal penetration).
Things that may make sex a bit tricky (vaginismus, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, lack of vaginal lubrication) and how to work around it.
The fact that the majority of the population has herpes simplex virus, and that most people who have it show no or minimal symptoms. While we should warn about STDs, including HSV, we should also make sure that people know that HSV specifically isn't that big of a deal, especially since most people already have it.
The purpose of the uterus as a part of the pelvic organ structure, and the purpose of the ovaries to generally maintain health. Too many women run around thinking there uterus and ovaries only exist to make babies, and think that just taking out the organs because they don't want kids is no big deal.

I could go on. I have a sex-ed webcomic, R/EitraAndEmi, that is intended to teach adults who had a poor sex-ed as kids, as well as teach content that is important, but not quite appropriate for child sex-ed.

P1anth0 · 2025-10-12T02:30:51+00:00

This could have been my own fault for not paying attention in school, but I didn’t understand my body’s anatomy or how it worked. I luckily learned quickly that penetration alone doesn’t typically lead to orgasms for women that is was actually clitoral stimulation.. sometimes I wonder how many women never discovered this. Schools should teach anatomy and its functions clearly.

ThatBitchA · 2025-10-12T02:16:45+00:00

Perimenopause.

Flightlessbirbz · 2025-10-12T13:50:30+00:00

Consent. I think most schools do teach about that now. But when I was young, it was so much about “saying no” because of pregnancy and sti risk (but since you’re gonna do it anyway, here’s a condom), that there wasn’t anything about what an actual “yes” looks like. Because sex outside of marriage was always framed as a “mistake” guys are peer-pressured and girls are pressured by guys into making, so heaven forbid we be deliberate about whether or not we actually want to do it. And in marriage/a committed relationship? No discussion of that, consent was just assumed.

Some others:

Sexual orientation, issues LGTBQ people might face, as more than a drive-by mention. The Kinsey scale to help people understand sexuality is a spectrum.

Just because you’re genitals don’t look like the diagram or what you’ve seen in porn doesn’t mean they’re not normal.

Conversely, pain during sex and debilitating menstrual pain are NOT normal (but endometriosis and PCOS are more common than you think).

What you see in porn isn’t a realistic depiction of mutually pleasurable sex.

alreadydark · 2025-10-12T11:14:31+00:00

That vaginas don’t change size or colour with sexual inter course because apparently our generation of men don’t know this

LaFrescaTrumpeta · 2025-10-12T08:27:50+00:00

i like this sub bc of random interesting questions like this lol my answer is honestly that i probably could have done with it happening earlier than 7th grade. i was being miseducated about sex by peers and media for yearssss before formal education said we were old enough to learn about it lol i think having some elementary/early middle school version of basic sex ed with age appropriate language/vagueness, especially anything to help counter implicit messages in porn, would have helped immensely.

idk how much this impacted me but i was also raised catholic around a lot of sex- slut- gay-and masturbation-shaming, i know it still affects me sometimes as an adult even one who’s been a sex positive atheist for 15 years. this part is unrealistic but i would love a future where kids have access to anti sex shaming/sexual double standard/homophobic rhetoric. that shit is everywhere and it sets girls up to hate themselves for liking sex and it sets boys up to hate themselves if they can’t get enough, or get the “right” (straight) kind. we should be combating that the same way we combat prejudiced beliefs, shouldn’t matter whether it clashes with someone’s religion.

Siukslinis_acc · 2025-10-12T09:04:32+00:00

Kinda everything as for me the "sex ed" was just girls and boys were talked separately. Girls were talked about menstruation (a year too late for me) and I have no clue about what the boys were talked to.

Though I would like people to be taught about the biological things of the other sex. Like boys being taught about menstruation and girls being taught about erections.

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attendquoi · 2025-10-12T16:48:04+00:00

I don't really think mine was lacking....but I wasn't solely reliant on school. My mom did a great job

-Shes-A-Carnival · 2025-10-12T18:32:44+00:00

Nothing there is no reason for "sex ed" in schools at all, outside of human reproduction in biology class

UpbeatInsurance5358 · 2025-10-12T09:46:44+00:00

Consent.

Inevitable-Bite8660 · 2025-10-12T09:20:47+00:00

Pairing random men and women for multiple dating simulations and feedback sessions lol — the socially awkward folks would probably get so much better at dating from that 😂

Title	What do you wish could have been part of sex ed?
Author	Reasonable_Mouse789
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Comments	52
Date	October 12, 2025 2:13 AM UTC (9 months ago)
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