Let’s be honest: In 1991, mainstream public school sex ed was strictly heterosexual. If you were a boy who liked boys or a girl who liked girls, you were invisible. The curriculum assumed every student would grow up to get married and have 2.5 kids.
Was it better or worse than today? It was different. Today’s kids have access to too much information; we had access to too little. We had to rely on whispers in the locker room and scrambled cable channels. Let’s be honest: In 1991, mainstream public school
For kids entering puberty in 1991, sex education was a very different universe than it is today. There were no app notifications about reproductive health. No YouTube explainers. Instead, there was the "Big Split." Let’s take a trip back to the era of slap bracelets, Terminator 2 , and the most cringeworthy 45 minutes of your fifth-grade life. The most defining feature of puberty education in 1991 was the gender segregation . Was it better or worse than today