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Mariah - 2005-05-06 10:22:34
FIRST! Muahahahha
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barb - 2005-05-06 10:25:47
#2 #2!!! Whee!
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Mariah - 2005-05-06 10:27:34
When we were in school the boys AND girls all herded into the gym together to watch one film about how girls got periods AND how boys had wet dreams. Whoever made that decision should have been shot.
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Jaquan - 2005-05-06 10:39:37
When I was in school (Catholic school to boot), the boys and girls were separated and spent the next half hour or so each watching their sex tapes... I mean, sex ED tapes. So when we all got back together, EVERYONE had secrets, but we actually asked what each other watched and got answers. Cuz that's the Christian way......
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onewetleg - 2005-05-06 10:42:18
and then they introduced coed gym. the male coach and the female coach stood in front of us all and the male coach said, 'sometimes the boys will want to play football and the girls will just want to go play with themselves.' after the laughter died down the female coach said, 'nice choice of words, jim.' true story.
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fifi - 2005-05-06 10:47:59
After our female offspring began menstruating, any time smaller male offspring had a sore tummy, and complained, i told him it was probably his ovaries, heh.
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Sandra - 2005-05-06 10:59:11
I hear you, Mariah. We were gathered into the "multi-purpose room," boys and girls together to watch the dreaded film. It was excruciatingly uncomfortable at the time. I remember holding a tissue over my mouth, pretending I was sneezing to hide the nervous giggles. God, I was immature. Unlike now. Hah. Has anyone seen the Simpsons where they watch the film and Ms. Krabapple stands in the back of the room smoking a cigarette? She says, "She's faking it." LOL Funniest. Moment. Ever.
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Squeakzilla - 2005-05-06 11:21:27
Like Mariah and Sandra I also saw the film co-ed (on a raggedy-assed, noisey projector). Us boys were not mature enough to handle it. Even though there were a million giggles afterward (back then, in the dark ages) I can't remember why we thought any of them funny. Innocence and goofiness, for what they're worth, ya gotta love 'em! (NO HOMO)
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Meg - 2005-05-06 11:36:15
Yeah, we had a boys film and a girls film, I think we were separated for them, but we saw both. One was called "Am I Normal?" Jokes about that went on for years. They were just so outdated and bad. Also, on fire? Dude, it's not a burning sensation.
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tali - 2005-05-06 11:53:13
We each had films when I was in school. You poor deprived soul.
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E - 2005-05-06 12:01:21
W were separated for the films (both groups did get to see both films though) which were part of a WEEK LONG class each afternoon. We were very well informed.
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Karen - 2005-05-06 12:12:02
I don't think even an 8 hour documentary would have helped you figure it all out.
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Andy - 2005-05-06 12:19:41
Huh. At our school all the kids (both the boys and girls) got to watch "Mr Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What".

It featured Troy McCLure. (you may rememebr him from such films as "The Boatjacking of Supership '79" or "Calling All Quakers!")
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Mel - 2005-05-06 12:38:36
OMG I totally remember "Am I Normal?" It was the guys' film we saw in 8th grade, when sex ed was actually "how not to get diseased and/or pregnant" instead of "your body is CHANGING" so yeah.
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Lis - 2005-05-06 12:48:50
We had separate videos. One was called "The Marvelous Male" and the other "The Fabulous Female".
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Chad - 2005-05-06 13:04:56
The tribe that bleeds, they hold many secrets, no?
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Seek Freedom - 2005-05-06 13:33:34
Just one video? Just one session? Hate you all. For three years, when I was 10, 11, and 12, we went through one-week sessions of "maturation" classes. The first one was about changes during puberty for guys and girls and what safe sex was (girls and boys were separated, but the videos seemed to bring a sense of unity as everyone would get out in the halls and talk to each other about it and ask each other if they wanted to try it), the second about STD's/pregnancy, and the third a repeat/update of the second. I skipped the third, sick of bringing home that stupid sheet for my parents to sign saying it was okay to watch videos that showed - how'd you put it - tallywhackers. And if that weren't enough, we had a whole unit of Sex Ed in Health class, 9th grade, high school. Yay.
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vitamin c - 2005-05-06 14:03:08
Wow, Seek Freedom, I totally read that you had a week long "masturbation" class. Masturbation class seems much more fun then Maturation class. I wonder if there would be homework.
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Kara - 2005-05-06 14:16:58
The girls got to watch the movie while the boys had to cut paper triangles or some shit for art class. The worst part for us was the fact that our mothers were invited to watch with us. My mother's comment on whether or not I should use tampons at the age of 11 nearly killed me.
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Squeakzilla - 2005-05-06 14:29:30
Talking about mis-reads. I read "we had a whole unit of Sex Ed" as "we had a whore unit of Sex Ed". Punani High School, I guess.
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Fuzzy Grey - 2005-05-06 14:37:08
I had to watch those frickin' retarded movies TWICE. I moved between 5th and 6th grade and one school district showed it in 5th grade and the other one showed it in 6th. The boys were taken to another room and shown a video of which they never spoke of. We just assumed it was the same one. HOWEVER, it was kinda cool because the chick doing the intro was the chick that played Annie in the movie of the same name. SEE?? She wasn't just a one hit wonder.
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Angel - 2005-05-06 16:43:44
We didn't get movies, we got BOOKS. PAMPHLETS, for god's sake. the boys and the girls of sixth grade were all together in our classroom looking over this thing while the teacher went over them. Looking back, I REALLY feel bad for that teacher.
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Ali - 2005-05-06 17:02:22
Irritatingly, at my school the teachers told us not to tell the boys anything. Or show us the booklets, like it was some huge goddamn conspiracy and "Never let the boys know that you are bleeding out your hooha or else they will not want to stick their penis there and you will be an old maid forever and ever and ever and die lonely." The teachers TOLD US to be all, "None of your business." Totally wacked.
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AJ - 2005-05-06 17:26:57
I'll trade you! You deal with being 12 and having to learn how to put in a tampon (or just how long a pad will last) raging cramps in algebra class, and a "dainty" bleeding cooch, and I'll be happy to be you, wadding up the sheets and tossing them in the laundry. Short end of the stick, my ass! At least in the boy's case, they at least get to get off.
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Gina - 2005-05-06 18:38:15
Ah man, we had all the normal stuff in middle school, but when I took biology in grade 12 we had a whole segement on sexuality and reproduction. Wow, it was so uncomfortable, especially when the teacher asked us questions afterwards and we had to answer them in front of people we actually wanted to have sex with.
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Megan - 2005-05-06 19:21:51
We had to watch the "changing" video in 5th grade, but I don't think the boys got theirs until 6th grade. Then we had to take a sex-ed class in 7th grade, all together. That was very uncomfortable and all the boys would always laugh and the girls would blush. They even made us watch an entire vaginal delivery! I just stared at my shoes..
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greer - 2005-05-06 20:11:42
Still traumatized from the 6th grade movies. Boys and girls saw separate movies. No one had to tell us not to speak about it. We did not want to. Besides, we had one girl who already had her period and she had pretty much told us every thing anyway.
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awittykitty - 2005-05-06 20:27:17
Geeze, I went to Catholic School and didn't see ANY of those films. I still can't figure out what that monthly bleeding thing is and I'm 47. What's up with that? Anyone?
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emopirate - 2005-05-06 23:09:27
:D i was homeschooled i got NO tape :\
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Mushu - 2005-05-07 00:15:28
i'm not the only one who had to watch the annie video? they had the girls in the cafeteria and the boys in the gym (across the hall) and played the video so loud that the whole school could hear the damn thing...it was a lovely experience.
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Wayne - 2005-05-07 05:06:40
Bwahahahahaha!
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Sue - 2005-05-07 08:10:20
Oh, cut me a break! I'd rather have wet dreams than a period. I'd rather have wet dreams than cramps. I'd rather have wet dreams than PMS. I'd rather have wet dreams than labor. I'd rather have wet dreams than menopuause. In your next life, when you come back as a woman, you will understand! I can't wait until my next life so I can be a man, for it's still a man's world!
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Erin - 2005-05-07 09:14:12
You think you had it bad? I had to watch my 'you're growing up' video with my mum, my Aunty, my brother, and my cousin. I was 10. Then I got a book and two magazines that my brother kept stealing. It was so embarrasing, because even though my brother was 14 months older than me, everytime he was me he would laugh at me because of all the stuff I would have to go through to 'grow up', where as he hardly had to do anything. Well, luckily for me, i've finished growing up, and i guess he's still learning all that 'easy stuff'..
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Ali B - 2005-05-07 13:06:32
We had a different version of it each year. 5th grade - the boys and girls of the two classes that worked together seperated and we watched the "videos," male and female editions. My female teacher put a pad on her pants and danced around to show it wouldn't fall off. In 6th grade - the boys watched the videos one day while the girls sat in the library and read outdated packets that included how to put on your "menstrual garter." And in 8th grade, boys and girls together watched "THE MIRACLE OF LIFE!" a Nova-PBS thing that shows a couple having sex with a heat sensetive camera and a woman giving birth FROM THE OUTSIDE. Boys' jaws dropped and girls swore never to have children.
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liss - 2005-05-07 14:37:10
when i was in elementary school they seperated the boys from girls and this really ancient scary old lady taught us about what was going to happen to our bodies. she put an outline of a nude female on the overhead projector and took out her black marker and drew the biggest, scraggliest mounds of hair ever in the areas we were supposed to become hairy. my friends and i were terrified because we thought we were going to all grow giant afros in our armpits and nether regions. we all thought we'd have to buy giant weed whackers or something. :P she also pretended her hand was a vagina and put a tampon in it. really weird stuff for a bunch of 3rd graders. *shudder*
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Chris - 2005-05-07 14:38:22
Hey, what is a "menstrual garter"? I know pads, tampons, instead...what is a garter?
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Carolyn J. - 2005-05-07 17:25:31
Hey Chris, you need to visit this site: http://www.mum.org/
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Fuzzy Grey - 2005-05-07 19:44:44
Pads used to need garters to stay where they were supposed to. Then they discovered adhesive... and... Since I'm reaching my sexual peak (I just turned 29) I've started to have wet dreams... OFTEN!! And, since I am a woman, there is no funky mess to clean up in the morning... I WIN!!!!!
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michelle - 2005-05-08 05:34:11
"Are You There God? I'ts Me, Margaret". 'nuff said.
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Chris - 2005-05-09 00:38:54
http://www.mum.org/insideMUM1.htm <-- location of garter pix. That is really weird. There were no pix of the backside, is it like a thong?
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Nikko - 2005-05-09 01:13:36
We did sex ed separately until eighth grade. The girls later found out that the only thing the boys were told about the girls' side of puberty was "Don't ever look through their purses." Later came the great "Am I Normal" video. Gotta love the zookeeper - "Well, son, in my job you see a lot of penises..."
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