A Sexual Miseducation

Everything I learnt in sex ed, and everything it didn’t teach me.

Jessica A
Jessica A
Nov 7 · 4 min read
A black-lipsticked mouth bites a jelly sweet. Photo by Wei Ding on Unsplash

burst frizzy-haired into my teenage years in late ’90s Britain, in a household where sex was somewhat taboo. My wonderful parents were, and are, liberal and open about many subjects, but sex wasn’t one of them.

At my all-girls state school, things were only marginally different. Once a…

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