Was it better or worse than today? It was different. Today’s kids have access to too much information; we had access to too little. We had to rely on whispers in the locker room and scrambled cable channels.
For kids entering puberty in 1991, sex education was a very different universe than it is today. There were no app notifications about reproductive health. No YouTube explainers. Instead, there was the "Big Split." Let’s take a trip back to the era of slap bracelets, Terminator 2 , and the most cringeworthy 45 minutes of your fifth-grade life. The most defining feature of puberty education in 1991 was the gender segregation . Was it better or worse than today
The Birds, The Bees, and The VHS Tape: A Look Back at Puberty Sex Ed for Boys and Girls in 1991 We had to rely on whispers in the
Let’s be honest: In 1991, mainstream public school sex ed was strictly heterosexual. If you were a boy who liked boys or a girl who liked girls, you were invisible. The curriculum assumed every student would grow up to get married and have 2.5 kids. No YouTube explainers