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This trope is influenced by discourse around sex education in real life. Traditionally, sex education was not taught in schools and [[TheTalk left to the parents]] lest it corrupt the children. However, a spate of issues (such as rising teen pregnancies and the AIDS crisis) have helped reframe these classes as a vital public health tool. Some schools have been quicker to catch on than others, though, hence the stumblings depicted here. As such, this is TruthInTelevision; however, due to the controversy surrounding them, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''

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Usually, this trope applies to a HighSchool sex-ed class or the setting's equivalent of it. The classes themselves will likely be portrayed as awkward and woefully lacking in content, such as [[NatureAdoresAVirgin overemphasizing virginity]], teaching abstinence-only "sex ed" (maybe even by [[ScareEmStraight using scare tactics]]), or only showing the very basics of human anatomy while being very vague [[MissConception or even incorrect]] about the details. Maybe you'll get to put a condom on a banana, but if you want to know more about how periods work, non-heterosexual sex, or [=STDs=], you're fresh out of luck. The assigned instructor is either an ApatheticTeacher who could care less about having to teach "health" or a sincere educator hampered by MoralGuardians who want to [[ThinkOfTheChildren protect the teens' innocence]] because SexIsEvil. Either way, the students rarely come out of the class more prepared for intercourse, but the work definitely mined some CringeComedy out of the whole affair.

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This trope is influenced by discourse around sex education in real life. Traditionally, sex education was not taught in schools and [[TheTalk left to the parents]] lest it corrupt the children. However, a spate of issues (such as rising teen pregnancies and the AIDS crisis) have helped reframe these classes as a vital public health tool. Some schools have been quicker to catch on than others, though, hence the stumblings depicted here. As such, this is TruthInTelevision; however, due to the controversy surrounding them, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''.

* ''WebVideo/ElBananero'': Professor Paul Vazo[[note]]A PunnyName based on "polvazo" or "big polvo", being the word "polvo" (dirt) [[IHaveManyNames one of the names]] in Latin America for having sex[[/note]], a PE teacher who during rest of his class "[[TheTalk teaches]]" his students about Sex Ed. It's all PlayedForLaughs and with the [[SexComedy Bananero's]] [[ToiletHumor own style]]. Apart from the misdirection of his class, these videos also got a DecadeThemedFilter, being mostly in black and white, [[MonochromePast like these were recorded in]] TheSixties.

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* ''Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee'': In her segment on the intersex experience, Sam mentions that sex ed teachers were wrong to claim that sex is a binary, while also noting her sex ed teacher was wrong to claim, "the only safe sex is sex with a banana." She found that out the hard way.
* ''Series/SexEducation'': What we see of the school's sex-ed class consists of the students fumbling to put a condom onto a prosthetic penis. It leaves the students woefully unequipped for the ups and downs of real-life sex, which is why the awkward and virginal Otis -- who was raised by a sex therapist -- starts making money from giving sex advice to his classmates.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'' the gym teacher delivers a sex-ed lecture to the boys. He draws a (rather) inaccurate picture of the uterus and ovaries on the blackboard, which boys compare to a cow's head. The boys expected something different and most of them just laugh.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one episode, Bart's class watches a sex ed video called "Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What", which shows an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic rabbit]] dating, marrying, and eventually knocking up another one. It ends with Troy [=McClure=] saying, "And now you know how it works, don't do it."

** When Kyle's baby Canadian brother Ike goes through puberty in "[[Recap/SouthParkS17E05TamingStrange Taming Strange]]", Kyle makes him watch a Canadian puberty video, where the Canadian Health Control Head claims a man and a woman make love by the man farting into the woman's "[[UnusualEuphemism strange]]", filling it with air so she can queef in his face [[MissConception so a baby can be born.]] He's then told the truth by one of his assistants and reveals he believes this because [[SarcasmBlind his wife told him that.]]

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* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} revised by Creator/AAPessimal, the thirteen-year-old girls at Seven-Handed Sek's convent school for girls get their Personal and Social Development from a young nun, only a few years older than they are, who is haltingly, fumblingly, embarrassingly useless at it. The teachers are fine with it being on the curriculum as long as ''somebody else'' teaches it, and the young nun in question was assigned the job by being lower on the pecking order. [[note]]The situation is resolved when SHS girls are invited to the Assassins' School, which teaches sex ed to female pupils in a no-nonsense, factually accurate, thorough way which leads to traumatised girls staggering out of the lecture hall, after a bout of Aversion Therapy delivered by Matron Igorina, vowing they will be celibate for the rest of their lives[[/note]].

* ''Film/TheGirlNextDoor2004'' involves an attempt to avert this. The main character, for his high school final project, puts together a comprehensive and entertaining sex ed film starring porn stars. A famous porn producer signs on as a financier and distributor, and he makes a fortune in royalties.

* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' in the comedy sketch "Sex Education": An old-fashioned school teacher explains sex in a very technical, boring, and highly unromantic way. The class includes a practical demonstration by the teacher and his wife, the students, however, have difficulties paying attention and need to be constantly reprimanded throughout.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]" sees sex-ed courses added to the curriculum of South Park Elementary. It goes poorly to say the least: Mr. Mackey is so incompetent he can't even get IkeaErotica right, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics end up sparking a gender war between the students, Mr. Garrison straight up performs sex acts like rolling a condom onto the dildo with his mouth in front of kindergarteners and treats it like normal, and Chef insists that people become sexually ready at the age of 17 regardless of circumstance.

** When Kyle's baby Canadian brother Ike goes through puberty in "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E5TamingStrange Taming Strange]]", Kyle makes him watch a Canadian puberty video, where the Canadian Health Control Head claims a man and a woman make love by the man farting into the woman's "[[UnusualEuphemism strange]]", filling it with air so she can queef in his face [[MissConception so a baby can be born.]] He's then told the truth by one of his assistants and reveals he believes this because [[SarcasmBlind his wife told him that.]]

Usually, this trope applies to a HighSchool sex ed class, or the setting's equivalent of it. The classes themselves will likely be portrayed as awkward and woefully lacking in content, such as [[NatureAdoresAVirgin overemphasizing virginity]], teaching abstinence-only "sex ed" (maybe even by [[ScareEmStraight using scare tactics]]), or only showing the very basics of human anatomy while being very vague [[MissConception or even incorrect]] about the details. Maybe you'll get to put a condom on a banana, but if you want to know more about how periods work, non-heterosexual sex, or [=STDs=], you're fresh out of luck. The assigned instructor is either an ApatheticTeacher who could care less about having to teach "health" or a sincere educator hampered by MoralGuardians who want to [[ThinkOfTheChildren protect the teens' innocence]] because SexIsEvil. Either way, the students rarely come out of the class more prepared for intercourse, but the work definitely mined some CringeComedy out of the whole affair.

* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' in the comedy sketch "Sex Education": An old-fashioned school teacher explains sex in a very technical, boring and highly unromantic way. The class includes a practical demonstration by the teacher and his wife, the students, however, have difficulties paying attention and need to be constantly reprimanded throughout.
* ''Film/SexEd'' is about an awkward inner-city schoolteacher who realizes his students have no proper sex education, and takes it upon himself to teach them. The kicker? He's a virgin, and the whole thing is played for CringeComedy.

* ''Series/SexEducation'': What we see of the school's sex ed class consists of the students fumbling to put a condom onto a prosthetic penis. It leaves the students woefully unequipped for the ups and downs of real-life sex, which is why the awkward and virginal Otis -- who was raised by a sex therapist -- starts making money from giving sex advice to his classmates.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears'' the gym teacher delivers a sex ed lecture to the boys. He draws a (rather) inacurate picture of uterus and ovaries on the blackboard, which boys compare to a cow's head. The boys expected something different and most of them just laugh.

* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': In "Sex Ed", Max's creepy gym teacher Coach Bobert gives Max and his friends a horrible sex ed class, including calling a condom a "linoleum wrapper" and telling them that holding your pee for too long will cause it to eventually back up into your brain and kill you. Additionally, one scrawl on the chalkboard is "pee is stored in the balls". The comic's author noted that the comic was taken directly from the sex ed class he had as a teenager.

* ''WebVideo/ElBananero'': Professor Paul Vazo[[note]]A PunnyName based on "polvazo" or "big polvo", being the word "polvo" (dirt) [[IHaveManyNames one of the names]] in Latin America for having sex[[/note]], a PE teacher who during a rest of his class "[[TheTalk teaches]]" his students about Sex Ed. It's all PlayedForLaughs and with the [[SexComedy Bananero's]] [[ToiletHumor own style]]. Apart of the misdirection of his class, these videos also got a DecadeThemedFilter, being mostly in black and white, [[MonochromePast like these were recorded in]] TheSixties.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': When Stan teaches a sex ed class, he insists that sex is a mystery that you don't need to know, and he says that babies come from an octopus squatting on your brain.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuysS5E6PrickUpYourEars Prick Up Your Ears]]" Lois is hired as the school's sex ed teacher after learning they don't have one, but is fired after teaching kids how to use condoms. Afterwards, the school brings in a religious abstinence-based sex ed program whose advice is so bad that the kids start having "aural" sex.[[note]]as in sticking their dicks into ear canals[[/note]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS1E2SquarePeg Square Peg]]", Peggy is initially drafted to give her son TheTalk but winds up as the school's sex ed teacher. Hank is initially unsupportive but becomes proud of her for being taking on the opportunity. Unfortunately, none of the other parents agree for their kids to learn sex ed.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The Season 5 Episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]" sees sex ed courses added to the curriculum of South Park Elementary. It goes poorly to say the least: Mr. Mackey is so incompetent he can't even get IkeaErotica right, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics end up sparking a gender war between the students, Mr. Garrison straight up performs sex acts like rolling a condom onto the dildo with his mouth in front of kindergarteners and treats it like normal, and Chef insists that people become sexually ready at the age of 17 regardless of circumstance.

Usually, this trope applies to a HighSchool sex ed class, or the setting's equivalent of it. The classes themselves will likely be portrayed as awkward and woefully lacking in content, such as [[NatureAdoresAVirgin overemphasizing virginity]], teaching abstinence-only "sex ed" (maybe even by [[ScareEmStraight using scare tactics]]), or only showing the very basics of human anatomy while being very vague [[MissConception or even incorrect]] about the details. Maybe you'll get to put a condom on a banana, but if you want to know more about how periods work, non-heterosexual sex, or [=STDs=], you're fresh out of luck. The assigned instructor is either an ApatheticTeacher who could care less about having to teach "health" or a sincere educator hampered by MoralGuardians who want to protect the teens' innocence because SexIsEvil. Either way, the students rarely come out of the class more prepared for intercourse, but the work definitely mined some CringeComedy out of the whole affair.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuysS5E6PrickUpYourEars Prick Up Your Ears]]" Lois is hired as the school's sex ed teacher after learning they don't have one, but is fired after teaching kids how to use condoms. Afterwards, the school brings in a religious abstinence-based sex ed program whose advice is so bad that the kids start having "aural" sex[[note]]as in sticking their dicks into ear canals[[/note]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; the Season 5 Episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]" sees sex ed courses added to the curriculum of South Park Elementary. It goes poorly to say the least: Mr. Mackey is so incompetent he can't even get IkeaErotica right, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics end up sparking a gender war between the students, Mr. Garrison straight up performs sex acts like rolling a condom onto the dildo with his mouth in front of kindergarteners and treats it like normal, and Chef insists that people become sexually ready at the age of 17 regardless of circumstance.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Thanks to Army regulations, poor Henry Blake has to give such lectures, which are gleefully mocked by Hawkeye and the others.
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Usually, this trope applies to a HighSchool sex ed class, or the setting's equivalent of it. The classes themselves will likely be portrayed as awkward and woefully lacking in content, such as [[NatureAdoresAVirgin overemphasizing virginity]], teaching abstinence-only sex ed (maybe even by [[ScareEmStraight using scare tactics]]), or only showing the very basics of human anatomy while being very vague [[MissConception or even incorrect]] about the details. Maybe you'll get to put a condom on a banana, but if you want to know more about how periods work, non-heterosexual sex, or [=STDs=], you're fresh out of luck. The assigned instructor is either an ApatheticTeacher who could care less about having to teach "health" or a sincere educator hampered by MoralGuardians who want to protect the teens' innocence because SexIsEvil. Either way, the students rarely come out of the class more prepared for intercourse, but the work definitely mined some CringeComedy out of the whole affair.

* ''Film/TheGirlNextDoor2004'' involves an attempt to avert this. The main character, for his high school final project, puts together a comprehensive sex ed film starring porn stars. A famous porn producer signs on as a financier and distributor, and he makes a fortune in royalties.

* ''Film/TheGirlNextDoor'' involves an attempt to avert this. The main character, for his high school final project, puts together a comprehensive sex ed film starring porn stars. A famous porn producer signs on as a financier and distributor, and he makes a fortune in royalties.

* Film/TheGirlNextDoor involves an attempt to avert this. The main character, for his high school final project, puts together a comprehensive sex ed film starring porn stars. A famous porn producer signs on as a financier and distributor, and he makes a fortune in royalties.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; the Season 5 Episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]" sees sex ed courses added to the curriculum of South Park Elementary. It goes poorly to say the least: Mr. Mackey is so incompetent he can't even get IkeaErotica right and Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics end up sparking a gender war between the students.