Last week, the biology department had arranged for a local sexual health nurse to come and talk to us about contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, abortion and infertility. fascinating stuff, albeit somewhat revolting (that stuff about STDs? there were pictures).
people from all three classes were in the room for the talk, and we started with some examples of contraception - several brands of the combined pill, including the evil one that made both me and Hanna crazy (we did actually shout "it's the evil one!" when she handed it to us), a female condom (one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen), an IUD, an implant etc, etc. Then of course, she moves on to the diseases. Start with a list, fine. Then those pictures. Oh dear . There was a point when I looked across the classroom and spotted several of the boys looking very uncomfortable.
We were all given leaflets at the end of the session, including one about safe oral sex. This leaflet had some diagrams of how to use a dental dam. It's not terribly... descriptive. Luckily for us, the sexual health nurse was sat with the sixth form's admin assistant next door, so Celia, Hanna and me went to ask about it. She was of course well prepared and just happened to have one to hand that she could show us.
When we went back to our friends and explained what it is, the boys were all giggly and silly (no change there then). The dividing wall has a big window in it, and through this, the ever helpful nurse was waving the thing around like a bullfighters cape, stretching and bending it and generally (I suspect) trying to embarrass the boys - she succeeded.
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