What Was Your Sex Education Like?

[Pat Mustard]

I went to Catholic school, so sex education basically boiled down to 'keep it zipped or go to hell.'

Boru

I also went to catlick* school. The school had plenty of materials sent down from the Dept of Education but the archbish, as patron of the school, ordered them locked away from the students.

* Despite being run by church fiat the church made no contibution to the running of the school, the salaries were paid by the state, equipment picked out and bought by the state, repairs organised, tendered and paid for by the state. New buildings would have also been paid for by the state only for the school was originally chartered (when the Brits were still in charge) by a trust set up by a rich high anglican to teach sons of poor farmers better farming techniques (in fact, our school is the reason why Agricultural Science is on the Irish leaving cert).