Words Tim Heap
As our Sex Education cover star Sami Outalbali says: “[Sex] is going to be in your life - all your life - more than a lot of things you learn in school.” But despite that universal truth (who’s really made use of Pythagoras’ Theorem or iambic pentameters in their adult life?), sex education lessons -- in UK schools and elsewhere -- haven’t evolved much beyond the basic explanation of the birds and the bees and where babies come from.
If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll have sat through a demonstration of how to roll a condom on to a banana (although these days the ubiquitous aubergine seems more appropriate).