I just got to work at saw this:

My sex ed teacher was our gym teacher. She was married to the boy's gym teacher (this school already had separate gym classes, so you can guess how well this is going to go). They were both super religious, and she spent most of the course (girl's only, no co-ed) talking about how wonderful it was that they had waited…

Vancouver, BC: Ours was great. 3rd grade, no gender segregation, just the straight facts — not just limited to "sex," but also the workings of the sex organs, including an explanation on how and why erections happen, which was an endless source of amusement. And then we had "sex week," where the teachers told us how…

"You can get HIV from having anal sex, even if your partner doesn't have the HIV virus"

I never learned a lie. My school hired an outside person to do sex ed and she did a pretty good job. Unfortunately, she allowed us to all discretely write a question on a notecard that she would answer - honestly a good idea. Her mistake was that she made this speech about how she knew that jokesters would make silly…

UGH.... I fucking hate this brand of abstinence "education". Oh yes, lets shame all the women who are sexually active or will be AND shame the ones who were abused/raped, so they all think they're "tainted" for their future husbands. that won't fuck anyone up.....the fucking Madonna/whore complex HAS TO DIE.

I teach consent workshops and read a lot
about best practice sex-ed, and in my travels I've heard a lot of terrible stories about abstinence-based, anti-sex programs.

When I was a Sophomore in high school in Northern Virginia (the liberal bastion of Virginia), my football coach gym teacher was way too dudebro to talk sex-ed with us so we watched a film instead. In the film at female teacher was lecturing to a classroom of kids about sex-ed and taking questions. I don't remember the…

Well, to be fair, the advice about anal is pretty solid. You can't just start with a penis.

My health teacher told us that alcohol counteracts the birth control pill. His example was "If Tara drinks some soda but someone spiked it with alcohol and Tara goes on to have unprotected sex with her boyfriend later that night, she will become pregnant." I am not even exaggerating. Being young, I later asked my…

In middle school I had to watch a video lecture wherein the presenter recalled a time when a young woman had come up to her after a lecture and told her she had just been diagnosed HIV positive. The presenter's response: "Well, you had premarital sex, so you deserve it." That's right, she told an HIV positive person…

No big lies, but we had a sex lecture by this lady doctor when I was in 5th grade and she at one point went "GIRLS - sperm is your enemy!".

Ok, this wasn't a lie, but this is a true story about sex ed. Our health teacher was the creepy old swim coach (weren't they all? Who actually had a non-creepy health teacher?). We took health as freshmen and sophomores so we were between 14-16. At the end of the semester, he created this "ask anything" box where…

Birth control pills will make you go blind.

I grew up in Louisiana with abstinence only education, so we were given a sheet in Biology class with a chart of the many STDs, the symptoms, and the ways of preventing said diseases. So much of the chart was blacked out with marker it looked like the FBI files on Angela Davis. All the ways an STD could be prevented…

OOOOOOoooOOOO… I 've got a couple. I went to a Catholic high school. They even told us that they discouraged sex before marriage, but that we should still be "informed". Here are the gems they informed us with:

Shitty French-Canadian gym teacher/SCHOOL PRINCIPAL told us that condoms don't work because the HIV virus was so small it could swim through latex so even if we didn't get pregnant we'd still get AIDS and die. (Just so you get the full experience: tracksuit, balding, Bonhomme Carnaval looking dude, wagging his finger…

Our school (in Canada, but the dude was from the states) had a speaker come in every year that would tell the guys in the room to raise their hand if they were ok with their future wife "fooling around" right now. Generally nobody would raise their hand (both because they weren't paying attention, they knew they…

Gotta be a tie between "You can get HIV from having anal sex, even if your partner doesn't have the HIV virus" and "Condoms cause cancer, so don't have sex until you're married so you won't have to use them." Freshman year sex ed, public school, California, early 2000s.