It was very interesting to watch last night's Channel 4 programme: 'The Sex Education Show: Stop Pimping Our Kids', filmed at Raynes Park High School.

For all of us who have had to endure the obligatory cringe-fest of sex education at age 13, I thought the Raynes Park kids had a much more enlightening experience.

Not only were they taught the basics about our private parts and how they work, they also seemed to be engaged in a sensible and mature discussion of how young people's views of sex and sexuality.

While the hour-long show was built around a campaign to stop stores like Primark and Matalan selling ridiculous items of clothing like padded bras for seven-year-olds (really, who buys this stuff?), it argued that teenagers who are able to talk honestly and openly about sex with their parents are more likely to be act responsibly e.g. use contraception.

The Raynes Park pupils were also shown to a parade of naked bodies featuring so-called 'normal' people with normal body parts which you hardly ever see in the make-believe television world where, let's face it, the non-beautiful people hardly feature.

I went to a very similar school in north London in the 90s and my sex education classes (both of them) involved practising how to put a condom on a cucumber and looking at diagrams showing the reproductive system worked.

So my question is, has sex education become much more developed since "my day" or have the Raynes Park students been given a masterclass and can claim to be among the most informed about sex in the country?

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below or emailing: ooakes@london.newsquest.co.uk.

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