Learning to Live

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Audience Score
55
Learning to Live
NR 20 minDocumentary, AnimationThe Joy of Sex Education PosterPart of The Joy of Sex Education
The film twice states that it doesnt intend a moral injunction but it clearly does with comments such as our society regards sexual intercourse outside marriage as irresponsible and possibly disastrous and you can use your knowledge with responsibility and real love or you can use it wantonly and with mere animal appetite This is clearly marriage education not sex education
StarringClaire RaynerVernon Greeves
DirectorsGuy FergussonPhillip Sattin

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:Eothen Films Educational Film Unit
Movie Tags:
educationaladolescencegrowing upsex educationpubertymenstruationreproductive health

The Joy of Sex Education

A survey of sex education through the ages. Many of the early films highlight Britain's horror at the very thought of sex and sexuality. Euphemisms abound and, if you can get away with making your point with the aid of a few birds or rabbits, why not? Even some mildly amorous pollen gets in on the act as a stand-in for something otherwise far too unpleasant to show. At least it saved the teachers' blushes. Despite the often unintentional humour, the films provide a vivid snapshot of the nation's concerns and anxieties across the decades. Not only did they teach us to keep our trousers firmly zipped, but also managed to underline the establishment's attitude towards women. Loose of morals and self-control, women are invariably portrayed as the spreaders of disease and responsible for just about every 'misfortune' that comes their way.