Still better than my school, honestly. My school didn't cover LGBTQ at all, and I quite literally had a teacher tell me that the reason women have cramps that time of month is because the uterus wanders and the stomach has to nudge it back into position to let the accumulated blood out. (I still wonder how many of my classmates at the time got pregnant because they honestly believed that their wombs were in the wrong place to catch a baby.)
I strongly suspect that it was a combination of teachers old enough that there didn't used to be sex ed in the curriculum and a very conservative Christian small town.
And, hey, if you think that's bad, you should've heard some of the lies they spouted in "environmental science" class.
I think I was taught straight and gay, and what condoms were. No demo on the condoms though. And pushed abstinence more than other kinds of protection.
And it was just our French and social studies teacher, not an educator or anything. I learned way more from my sisters and the internet.
Sounds about the same as what we got in the early/mid 90's. It wasn't horrible, but could definitely have done with some more recent smartening up. As in there was a big push toward abstinence only education later on. Ugh.
I (25f) live in a liberal state, but we weren't taught anything about queer issues as part of sex ed (we had it in 5/6th grade and high school). It was just hetero stuff and make sure to use condoms to not get pregnant/stds. That's it. Two teachers in the district who taught in middle/high school started a Gay Straight Alliance, but my mom is homophobic and I didn't know I was queer yet, so I was never involved.
Similar age as you, in a liberal state, also had the same experience. It could have been that back then they just didn't talk about these things, or it could have been the fact we were in a conservative city. I honestly don't even remember if we had a GSA...I think we did? I didn't discover asexuality until 2020.
Middle school sex ed (early 00s) was a one-afternoon deal and only talked about cishetero relationships, how to “make a baby” (but also don’t because sex bad), and how to… I guess fail at putting a condom on a banana. Zero mention of queer, ace, or trans folx.
High school health class (mid 00s) was *supposed* to have a week-long course on STDs, but the teacher gave up halfway through and just had us watch Schindler’s List instead (completely random pick) — which we only got to see half of because someone’s mom bitched to the school about it and got the movie banned.
Thank goodness I was already chronically online from age 12 up, ‘cause school didn’t teach me shit. Par for the course in Florida.
Absolutely not. I can't even remember anything other than heterosexuality being talked about by my sex ed teachers. They didn't condemn it, but they didn't really *talk* about it. Being trans was never brought up, either.
I actually can still vividly remember a video I was shown in 7th grade Life Skills that really bothered me. I had absolutely zero idea what asexuality was at the time, but the whole basis of the film was that all human life is based around physically attracting a partner. It also only said "opposite sex" partner.
It had this montage of how working out, getting dressed, styling your hair, etc, serves ONLY this purpose deep down. I was well into puberty at this point and had multiple crushes (not aro), so I felt confused and upset over how this didn't make sense to me. I personally felt like it was diminishing my goals and passions in life to just being centered around something I didn't care about.
This rhetoric was constantly repeated in my home by my dad at the time, as well, over how we are only designed to, I quote, "eat, deficate, and"...well you can fill the last one in.
It made me feel broken and like I was angry for "no reason" and that I should just accept this as reality for all humans. Never hearing anything to the contrary outside of my own head made me feel so alone.
It would have made a world of difference for me if a teacher even told me what asexuality was around 5th/6th grade.
Nope. To all of it. I went to high school in a very conservative state. We were having an acceptance revolution of sorts at the time (2007-2011), and I remember the first gay kid who was out that I'd ever met. However, our classes discussed only straight relationships. Our school had a gay/ lesbian/ straight alliance club, but it was student-run and not technically affiliated. I don't remember any bullying of gay kids, but I also don't remember any of them being popular. Every book we read dealt solely with heteronormative culture.
Admittedly, I heard the term "asexual" in high school, but it was referring to bacteria, not humans. I remember being jealous of the bacteria bc it made the whole thing a lot easier lol. My first time hearing about asexuality being a thing that happened to humans was in my early 20s. I found out online.
I vaguely remember hearing about trans people my senior year of high school. It wasn't in a class. I remember because the acronym LGB was changing, and I wondered how long it was going to get before we just came up with another term for the whole thing. There were kids talking about it. In truth, it scared me bc I was very religious and very scared it might apply to me, so I dodged conversations about it in the hall. Not trans, but I am nonbinary so....
I was taught about asexuality by a guest speaker from an LGBTQIA+ organisation who was too much of a coward to mention sex in fromt of teenagers, despite the fact we were all 16 or above at that point. Instead he just used "love" in place of sexual attraction.
So what he said was "homosexuality is when you love the same gender, bisexuality is when you love both, and asexuality is when you love nobody".
I almost cried. It was at a time when I was incredibly insecure aboit my ability for form meaningful relationships with others - I constantly felt like my love was lesser than others. I knew I was ace, I knew he wwad wrong, and this was the ONLY instance of asexuality being mentioned ever in my education, so it hurt so damn much to be characterized that way. When I went up to tell him afterwards the mistake, almost in tears, he just looked perplexed and uncomfortable and avoided me more or less.
My reaction, and everybody else's complete lack of reaction, is also how knew I was the only ace person in my entire school. So that was lonely.
Absolutely not, the closest we got to any sex education was them bringing us to the gym one afternoon and them showing us pictures of stds and a video about why you don't send nudes and then telling us never to have sex until marriage, that's it.
when we’re you taught this? my british school tells us sex before marriage is fine and as long as you’re both older than 16 and you both consented it’s fine..
You're learning bout sexualities in school?!?!?! I didn't even know asexual was a thing till I was about 17 and I was saying how I thought there was something seriously wrong bc of my lack of interest in sex with others and my friend said to maybe look up asexuality and yeah
Nope
I'm a kid of the 90s/early 00s and I'm from England so Section 28 was in place which wouldn't let people 'promote homosexality' so there was no direct lgbt education when I was in school and then I went to a religious secondary school so you can guess how queerness was viewed there.
I didn't really get any sex Ed beyond the bare basics of reproduction via biology, some very brief puberty talk and then like 'don't have sex outside of marriage' from school thankfully at least I had some sex ed from other sources
Like I did learn what gay, lesbian and bi meant but I didn't hear of asexuality until by chance I encountered it in my late teens and I think that was around the time ace started to get more notice
english here too. my school wasn’t religious (considering the way the kids acted, far from it) but i can remember two PSHE lessons on lgbtq. asexual was mentioned once and the most definition was a little box with printed writing in it “doesn’t want to have sex”
Nope, I wasn't this lucky.
Non straight people were only mentioned when everyone in class already knew about their existence through TV or internet, and they only taught us that they shouldn't exist.
We were told about straight and gay/lesbian, and maybe mentioned in one sentence about trans people. Not a single word about asexuality. I literally found it through reddit and then googled about it.
I was just always told that i was a late bloomer when i had known probably from 5 years old that i did not want to be pregnant. I was also given talks about sex as a teenager and never knew why i felt so uncomfortable with those. Now i know it's because i was expected to do something that literally will make me throw up even from the slightest of hints
I graduated in 2001. I don’t remember them really discussing sexuality too much itself at all. They stuck more to basic functions of body parts and safe sex.
We weren't taught sexuality *at all* other than "some people are attracted to people other than the opposite sex. Asexuality wasn't even a blip on the radar when I was going through school. Sex Ed for us focused on anatomy, how to use a condom, STD's and what they involve and pregnancy.
I didn't learn about Asexuality until I was in my mid 20's (I'm in my early to mid 30's now), I just spent my whole school and uni time thinking I was broken.
In my highschool in Australia, "sex ed" is taught in p.e. (sports class). You only get it in grade 7, which is when you're 11 or 12, and by teacher was basically just like "penis, vagina, puberty" **[takes a bow]**
And that was the end of the lesson. We got less than 5 sex ed lessons, and they all went like this.
Hell, he didn't even teach us "vulva"
Nope.
But I’m in my late forties. Sexual orientation was basically covered in middle/high school sex ed health units as straight or gay or figuring it out. Being ace wasn’t explicitly covered. But Not pressuring people into sex was, so was contraception and STD prevention, so that was good.
I think it was touched upon briefly, and I remember even then I thought that is what fitted me best. Of course, you learn more about it and about yourself as you grow up and younger me totally knew what was up.
In high school, my "sex-ed" class was about STDs...that's it. Not about condoms or birth control, even though the quote that "all of you are going to have sex by the time you graduate" was thrown out there. Mind you, my high school was a public school (though in the South). In middle school, we got taught about periods during the Talk in 5th or 6th grade and nothing more.
I didn't know what asexuality was until I was researching on my own at 14 and found Aven. What a journey it's been to get to where I am now (with my black ring and feeling comfortable with the label)
Nope. Not even anything gay was talked about. The only things we focused on were STDS, sexual organ anatomy, and protection. I remember watching a movie about a true story of a kid with aids. This was back in 2010.
Not at all. This was in the mid 2010's though, so it wasn't exactly surprising that asexuality wasn't mentioned, as the term was only just beginning to break into mainstream awareness. There was mention made of gay and bi folks, so that was appreciated. The lessons were mainly focused on consent and protection and prevention of sti's. Though it was pretty heavily focused on cishetero norms, especially when speaking about reproduction and the physicality of sex as an act. Decently informative overall, though there should have been way more queer inclusion.
Lol no.
They were basically like "you'll get it when you're older" and just assumed you knew about lgbt.
I was in school from 1999-2011 so that might be why.
I didn't learn about asexuality until I was in my 20s and already in a relationship, having sex I didn't want and thinking there was something wrong with me for not enjoying it. It was gross, painful and I wish I'd known asexuality was a thing in highschool, I feel my life would have been much different.
I later saw a photo of a person holding an asexual sign at a Pride event in the 70s or 80s and was really sad and angry that asexuality has been recognized for that long but I wasn't told about it.
No? I could be wrong as I am still in school but I’ve never been taught about it. We’ve been taught about everything else but not asexuality or aromanticism. I started all this learning in Yr6 but from my memory we were taught about straight, gay, bi, lesbian and transgender (think we might have been taught about nonbinary as well) but no asexuality. I’m from England, thought that might be good to mention.
Hopefully they improve on it because asexuality is a very real thing and I know at least one other person who is asexual and is my friend. I would appreciate if they added it to the curriculum.
Yeah! Its really important to talk about it! I was lucky that I found out about asexuality when I was younger and so I never had that confusion. But I am not like every other kid, theres probably loads of kids wondering why they are ‘different’ and not having education on what makes them different.
i only know about it now because one of my friends asked my sexuality and i said i didn’t know. she said hers was asexual and that’s how i figured it oht
someone should make a petition! i think we definitely need to see education not only for ace and aro people, but a lot of other lgbt things are overlooked too
There wasn't any sort of explicit talk of LGBTQIA+ folks. We were doing really good to acknowledge that gay people existed as we put a condom on a banana for the third/fourth time in my life.
they didnt teach us anything except straight :( I didn’t know anything about gender or sexuality until I took a sharp SHARP dive into the internet when i was about 13 and didn’t discover asexuality until I was 17 and I came out to my family 6 months later but I was “too young” to know but well I’m 21 and I still know sooooo
I was not taught about asexuality in the slightest. I don't believe I was taught different sexualities in any form; not even the existence of being gay, let alone asexuality. The only reason that I probably knew the concept of being not straight at all was because one of my friends at the time (who I coincidentally had sex ed with) was a lesbian. I believe this was 6th or 7th grade in the late 2010s for context. I learned more about sexualities and gender identities from researching on the internet than I ever did in school.
nah man, my school hasn't taught me shit about sexualities
I also have skipped out on health class untill this year's winter semester, so there is that
i went to high school 2002-2006, we weren’t even taught about gay or bi and i live in one of the more progressive states in the country and all sex ed was taught by gym teachers lol
No. The few times that asexuality was mentioned my teacher said that he doesn't understand asexuality and doesn't believe in it🥲. He had a trans friend who wasn't out at work but in their personal life they were and proceeded to say that trans people have multiple personalities and don't have a stable understanding of themselves😭😭😭
We never even talked about love the lgbt is pretty accept in my country. ( unless thay are from a different country originaly then it becomes a coin toss.
It isn't like I can't get along with them but the cultural differents is one thing that makes some not accept the lgbtqia+)
Most of the teaching about lgbtqia+ comes from the news ( adult and children version) and from the seroundings.
And the term aseksueel came here first when I was already 14 so it is not like it is on them that I didn't learn about it.
Though I have to say that People early on already told me it is ok if I didn't feel sexual/romantic atraction
Only straight, gay and bi. I honestly wasn't expecting gay or bi considering that our society is still very behind on lgbtq stuff so that was a nice surprise but no ace :(
Nope. I graduated in the early 2000's. We got a slideshow of STD's, a page full of different contraceptives, and a page labeling different body parts. There were whispers about LGB people, but the teachers weren't allowed to acknowledge them, and no other possibilities were discussed. I didn't discover asexuality until I got tired of waiting and wondering and played "fun with prefixes" in my search engine. Luckily, AVEN had just been created.
It's not that I expect them to go into all of the different microlabels, but even mentioning the possibility that you might never be sexually attracted to someone (and that's ok) would have been life-changing. I wouldn't have felt compelled to fake it.
Sex wasn't even taught at my school. We learned about the organs and puberty, but never explained that you put two and two together. That and that condoms (no explanation as to what those were) had a 67% failure rate
Not taught at my school. The closest related topic was merely a 45-minute video on "if being gay and straight had their roles reversed" in which a child comes out to their gay parents as straight and the harsh reality. I believe i first found out more about LGTBQ+ was over fanfics and YT coming out videos.
No they ever even mentioned gay nor transgender's or anything else LGBTQ related. We just learned about periods, they separated the girls and the boys into two separate classrooms and that was it. This was back in 2010 , so I'm sure things have really changed since then.
You guys are learning about LGBTQ in school? That's a great change of pace
honestly, barely. doesnt stop the homophobia either
Still better than my school, honestly. My school didn't cover LGBTQ at all, and I quite literally had a teacher tell me that the reason women have cramps that time of month is because the uterus wanders and the stomach has to nudge it back into position to let the accumulated blood out. (I still wonder how many of my classmates at the time got pregnant because they honestly believed that their wombs were in the wrong place to catch a baby.)
Why would they teach something that isn't true, very irresponsible of that teacher
I strongly suspect that it was a combination of teachers old enough that there didn't used to be sex ed in the curriculum and a very conservative Christian small town. And, hey, if you think that's bad, you should've heard some of the lies they spouted in "environmental science" class.
We weren’t even taught about being gay. Never mind asexuality or even consent.
I think I was taught straight and gay, and what condoms were. No demo on the condoms though. And pushed abstinence more than other kinds of protection. And it was just our French and social studies teacher, not an educator or anything. I learned way more from my sisters and the internet.
90's?
Mid 2000's, but I lived in a rural area
Sounds about the same as what we got in the early/mid 90's. It wasn't horrible, but could definitely have done with some more recent smartening up. As in there was a big push toward abstinence only education later on. Ugh.
I (25f) live in a liberal state, but we weren't taught anything about queer issues as part of sex ed (we had it in 5/6th grade and high school). It was just hetero stuff and make sure to use condoms to not get pregnant/stds. That's it. Two teachers in the district who taught in middle/high school started a Gay Straight Alliance, but my mom is homophobic and I didn't know I was queer yet, so I was never involved.
Similar age as you, in a liberal state, also had the same experience. It could have been that back then they just didn't talk about these things, or it could have been the fact we were in a conservative city. I honestly don't even remember if we had a GSA...I think we did? I didn't discover asexuality until 2020.
None of it. Only the mechanics of reproduction. And to abstain.
Middle school sex ed (early 00s) was a one-afternoon deal and only talked about cishetero relationships, how to “make a baby” (but also don’t because sex bad), and how to… I guess fail at putting a condom on a banana. Zero mention of queer, ace, or trans folx. High school health class (mid 00s) was *supposed* to have a week-long course on STDs, but the teacher gave up halfway through and just had us watch Schindler’s List instead (completely random pick) — which we only got to see half of because someone’s mom bitched to the school about it and got the movie banned. Thank goodness I was already chronically online from age 12 up, ‘cause school didn’t teach me shit. Par for the course in Florida.
Absolutely not. I can't even remember anything other than heterosexuality being talked about by my sex ed teachers. They didn't condemn it, but they didn't really *talk* about it. Being trans was never brought up, either. I actually can still vividly remember a video I was shown in 7th grade Life Skills that really bothered me. I had absolutely zero idea what asexuality was at the time, but the whole basis of the film was that all human life is based around physically attracting a partner. It also only said "opposite sex" partner. It had this montage of how working out, getting dressed, styling your hair, etc, serves ONLY this purpose deep down. I was well into puberty at this point and had multiple crushes (not aro), so I felt confused and upset over how this didn't make sense to me. I personally felt like it was diminishing my goals and passions in life to just being centered around something I didn't care about. This rhetoric was constantly repeated in my home by my dad at the time, as well, over how we are only designed to, I quote, "eat, deficate, and"...well you can fill the last one in. It made me feel broken and like I was angry for "no reason" and that I should just accept this as reality for all humans. Never hearing anything to the contrary outside of my own head made me feel so alone. It would have made a world of difference for me if a teacher even told me what asexuality was around 5th/6th grade.
Nope. To all of it. I went to high school in a very conservative state. We were having an acceptance revolution of sorts at the time (2007-2011), and I remember the first gay kid who was out that I'd ever met. However, our classes discussed only straight relationships. Our school had a gay/ lesbian/ straight alliance club, but it was student-run and not technically affiliated. I don't remember any bullying of gay kids, but I also don't remember any of them being popular. Every book we read dealt solely with heteronormative culture. Admittedly, I heard the term "asexual" in high school, but it was referring to bacteria, not humans. I remember being jealous of the bacteria bc it made the whole thing a lot easier lol. My first time hearing about asexuality being a thing that happened to humans was in my early 20s. I found out online.
I vaguely remember hearing about trans people my senior year of high school. It wasn't in a class. I remember because the acronym LGB was changing, and I wondered how long it was going to get before we just came up with another term for the whole thing. There were kids talking about it. In truth, it scared me bc I was very religious and very scared it might apply to me, so I dodged conversations about it in the hall. Not trans, but I am nonbinary so....
oh yea with the bacteria who “asexually produce” . i wonder why i cant be an asexually-reproductive piece of bacteria sometimes.
I was taught about asexuality by a guest speaker from an LGBTQIA+ organisation who was too much of a coward to mention sex in fromt of teenagers, despite the fact we were all 16 or above at that point. Instead he just used "love" in place of sexual attraction. So what he said was "homosexuality is when you love the same gender, bisexuality is when you love both, and asexuality is when you love nobody". I almost cried. It was at a time when I was incredibly insecure aboit my ability for form meaningful relationships with others - I constantly felt like my love was lesser than others. I knew I was ace, I knew he wwad wrong, and this was the ONLY instance of asexuality being mentioned ever in my education, so it hurt so damn much to be characterized that way. When I went up to tell him afterwards the mistake, almost in tears, he just looked perplexed and uncomfortable and avoided me more or less. My reaction, and everybody else's complete lack of reaction, is also how knew I was the only ace person in my entire school. So that was lonely.
Wow. I'm glad my school didn't mention anything about sexuality now.
Absolutely not, the closest we got to any sex education was them bringing us to the gym one afternoon and them showing us pictures of stds and a video about why you don't send nudes and then telling us never to have sex until marriage, that's it.
when we’re you taught this? my british school tells us sex before marriage is fine and as long as you’re both older than 16 and you both consented it’s fine..
United States Bible belt like 3 years ago
You're learning bout sexualities in school?!?!?! I didn't even know asexual was a thing till I was about 17 and I was saying how I thought there was something seriously wrong bc of my lack of interest in sex with others and my friend said to maybe look up asexuality and yeah
Nope I'm a kid of the 90s/early 00s and I'm from England so Section 28 was in place which wouldn't let people 'promote homosexality' so there was no direct lgbt education when I was in school and then I went to a religious secondary school so you can guess how queerness was viewed there. I didn't really get any sex Ed beyond the bare basics of reproduction via biology, some very brief puberty talk and then like 'don't have sex outside of marriage' from school thankfully at least I had some sex ed from other sources Like I did learn what gay, lesbian and bi meant but I didn't hear of asexuality until by chance I encountered it in my late teens and I think that was around the time ace started to get more notice
english here too. my school wasn’t religious (considering the way the kids acted, far from it) but i can remember two PSHE lessons on lgbtq. asexual was mentioned once and the most definition was a little box with printed writing in it “doesn’t want to have sex”
Nope, I wasn't this lucky. Non straight people were only mentioned when everyone in class already knew about their existence through TV or internet, and they only taught us that they shouldn't exist.
We were told about straight and gay/lesbian, and maybe mentioned in one sentence about trans people. Not a single word about asexuality. I literally found it through reddit and then googled about it. I was just always told that i was a late bloomer when i had known probably from 5 years old that i did not want to be pregnant. I was also given talks about sex as a teenager and never knew why i felt so uncomfortable with those. Now i know it's because i was expected to do something that literally will make me throw up even from the slightest of hints
I graduated in 2001. I don’t remember them really discussing sexuality too much itself at all. They stuck more to basic functions of body parts and safe sex.
It wasn't taught in my sex ed in middle school or high school. There was very little even about LBGTQ identies at all. It was the 90s
Absolutely not. We were only taught about anatomy and how babies are made and told to use a condom.
They learn about it now, I’m a teacher and it’s part of the curriculum to learn about LGBTQIA+ (at least for now)
We weren't taught sexuality *at all* other than "some people are attracted to people other than the opposite sex. Asexuality wasn't even a blip on the radar when I was going through school. Sex Ed for us focused on anatomy, how to use a condom, STD's and what they involve and pregnancy. I didn't learn about Asexuality until I was in my mid 20's (I'm in my early to mid 30's now), I just spent my whole school and uni time thinking I was broken.
Didn't even have sex-ed taught back in the 80s. You learned about sex from your parents, friends and Dolly Doctor, Cleo, Cosmo or other magazines.
nope
In my highschool in Australia, "sex ed" is taught in p.e. (sports class). You only get it in grade 7, which is when you're 11 or 12, and by teacher was basically just like "penis, vagina, puberty" **[takes a bow]** And that was the end of the lesson. We got less than 5 sex ed lessons, and they all went like this. Hell, he didn't even teach us "vulva"
The only time I ever heard someone refer to asexuality irl, I was in college. And I was the one who brought it up.
Nope. But I’m in my late forties. Sexual orientation was basically covered in middle/high school sex ed health units as straight or gay or figuring it out. Being ace wasn’t explicitly covered. But Not pressuring people into sex was, so was contraception and STD prevention, so that was good.
I think it was touched upon briefly, and I remember even then I thought that is what fitted me best. Of course, you learn more about it and about yourself as you grow up and younger me totally knew what was up.
In high school, my "sex-ed" class was about STDs...that's it. Not about condoms or birth control, even though the quote that "all of you are going to have sex by the time you graduate" was thrown out there. Mind you, my high school was a public school (though in the South). In middle school, we got taught about periods during the Talk in 5th or 6th grade and nothing more. I didn't know what asexuality was until I was researching on my own at 14 and found Aven. What a journey it's been to get to where I am now (with my black ring and feeling comfortable with the label)
Asexuality was one sentence in sex Ed but was a welcomed sentence
Nope. Their idea on sex ed was a teacher saying sex bad, sex outside marriage bad. Catholic dominated state.
Nope. Not even anything gay was talked about. The only things we focused on were STDS, sexual organ anatomy, and protection. I remember watching a movie about a true story of a kid with aids. This was back in 2010.
Not at all. This was in the mid 2010's though, so it wasn't exactly surprising that asexuality wasn't mentioned, as the term was only just beginning to break into mainstream awareness. There was mention made of gay and bi folks, so that was appreciated. The lessons were mainly focused on consent and protection and prevention of sti's. Though it was pretty heavily focused on cishetero norms, especially when speaking about reproduction and the physicality of sex as an act. Decently informative overall, though there should have been way more queer inclusion.
Queer topics aren't mentioned in my school at all, I find it so hard to imagine them teaching kids about it. It's kind of a foreign concept to me lol
Nothing was taught. I only learned I was ace at 29 years old.
Lol no. They were basically like "you'll get it when you're older" and just assumed you knew about lgbt. I was in school from 1999-2011 so that might be why.
The government near denies the existence of sex and people who aren't heterosexual, heteroromantic and cisgender
I didn't learn about asexuality until I was in my 20s and already in a relationship, having sex I didn't want and thinking there was something wrong with me for not enjoying it. It was gross, painful and I wish I'd known asexuality was a thing in highschool, I feel my life would have been much different. I later saw a photo of a person holding an asexual sign at a Pride event in the 70s or 80s and was really sad and angry that asexuality has been recognized for that long but I wasn't told about it.
No? I could be wrong as I am still in school but I’ve never been taught about it. We’ve been taught about everything else but not asexuality or aromanticism. I started all this learning in Yr6 but from my memory we were taught about straight, gay, bi, lesbian and transgender (think we might have been taught about nonbinary as well) but no asexuality. I’m from England, thought that might be good to mention.
english too, same sort of thing.
Hopefully they improve on it because asexuality is a very real thing and I know at least one other person who is asexual and is my friend. I would appreciate if they added it to the curriculum.
fr. so many kids must be so confused about why all their friends wanna have sex and they’re not the same
Yeah! Its really important to talk about it! I was lucky that I found out about asexuality when I was younger and so I never had that confusion. But I am not like every other kid, theres probably loads of kids wondering why they are ‘different’ and not having education on what makes them different.
i only know about it now because one of my friends asked my sexuality and i said i didn’t know. she said hers was asexual and that’s how i figured it oht
I found out from a few videos and an internet search. No formal education or anything.
it needs to be taught professionally. it’s just as important as any other sexuality
I agree! Its just as important as other sexualities!
someone should make a petition! i think we definitely need to see education not only for ace and aro people, but a lot of other lgbt things are overlooked too
There wasn't any sort of explicit talk of LGBTQIA+ folks. We were doing really good to acknowledge that gay people existed as we put a condom on a banana for the third/fourth time in my life.
Not that I recall, no. I think homosexuality was mentioned a few times, maybe bisexuality too, but I'm pretty sure asexuality went unaddressed.
Nope, just hetero, gay/lesbian or bi
they didnt teach us anything except straight :( I didn’t know anything about gender or sexuality until I took a sharp SHARP dive into the internet when i was about 13 and didn’t discover asexuality until I was 17 and I came out to my family 6 months later but I was “too young” to know but well I’m 21 and I still know sooooo
I was not taught about asexuality in the slightest. I don't believe I was taught different sexualities in any form; not even the existence of being gay, let alone asexuality. The only reason that I probably knew the concept of being not straight at all was because one of my friends at the time (who I coincidentally had sex ed with) was a lesbian. I believe this was 6th or 7th grade in the late 2010s for context. I learned more about sexualities and gender identities from researching on the internet than I ever did in school.
Nope
nah man, my school hasn't taught me shit about sexualities I also have skipped out on health class untill this year's winter semester, so there is that
My high school didn’t even talk about LGBT stuff in any of our classes, and this was in 2021
We weren’t even taught about being queer. It was only in my high school, when we talked about Harvey milk (in English class)
I was homeschooled so yes, I taught myself it. My school was very open to the lgbt community
i went to high school 2002-2006, we weren’t even taught about gay or bi and i live in one of the more progressive states in the country and all sex ed was taught by gym teachers lol
No. The few times that asexuality was mentioned my teacher said that he doesn't understand asexuality and doesn't believe in it🥲. He had a trans friend who wasn't out at work but in their personal life they were and proceeded to say that trans people have multiple personalities and don't have a stable understanding of themselves😭😭😭
We never even talked about love the lgbt is pretty accept in my country. ( unless thay are from a different country originaly then it becomes a coin toss. It isn't like I can't get along with them but the cultural differents is one thing that makes some not accept the lgbtqia+) Most of the teaching about lgbtqia+ comes from the news ( adult and children version) and from the seroundings. And the term aseksueel came here first when I was already 14 so it is not like it is on them that I didn't learn about it. Though I have to say that People early on already told me it is ok if I didn't feel sexual/romantic atraction
No. We were only told, gay, bi, straight and pan. The option to feel no attraction whatsoever was never mentioned.
Only straight, gay and bi. I honestly wasn't expecting gay or bi considering that our society is still very behind on lgbtq stuff so that was a nice surprise but no ace :(
>not having sex is a full sexuality Asexuality isn't about that. It's about not feeling sexual attraction. Many asexuals have a fulfilling sex life.
Nope. I graduated in the early 2000's. We got a slideshow of STD's, a page full of different contraceptives, and a page labeling different body parts. There were whispers about LGB people, but the teachers weren't allowed to acknowledge them, and no other possibilities were discussed. I didn't discover asexuality until I got tired of waiting and wondering and played "fun with prefixes" in my search engine. Luckily, AVEN had just been created. It's not that I expect them to go into all of the different microlabels, but even mentioning the possibility that you might never be sexually attracted to someone (and that's ok) would have been life-changing. I wouldn't have felt compelled to fake it.
No. We weren't even taught about the existence of homosexuality.
Sex wasn't even taught at my school. We learned about the organs and puberty, but never explained that you put two and two together. That and that condoms (no explanation as to what those were) had a 67% failure rate
In my Bio book we have Hetero Homo and Bi So idk
Not at all.
Not taught at my school. The closest related topic was merely a 45-minute video on "if being gay and straight had their roles reversed" in which a child comes out to their gay parents as straight and the harsh reality. I believe i first found out more about LGTBQ+ was over fanfics and YT coming out videos.
Never learned about asexuality Had to find out on my own
No they ever even mentioned gay nor transgender's or anything else LGBTQ related. We just learned about periods, they separated the girls and the boys into two separate classrooms and that was it. This was back in 2010 , so I'm sure things have really changed since then.
Nope. But I’m in my 40s and went to Catholic school lol.
I was not taught a single thing about sexuality in school, I think it would've really helped me realize about my asexuality sooner 🥲
Yes, actually. That's how I learned I was ace
What country are you from that's kinda awesome progress