Saturday, May 26, 2007

A retrospective of sex ed films from 1950's-1970's



A nice edit of retro sex ed films, from 1950 to about the mid 1970's seemingly pulled together from materials that are now in the public domain. Interestingly, the treatment about masturbation is more open than many programs now, particularly the animated piece from the seventies. Discourse of pleasure and the erotic are usually avoided in formalized sex education programs, with a few interesting exceptions. Interestingly, it's the thing that we avoid most as adults in talking about sex with youth, and one of the things young people say over and over again they wish we would be more honest about.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is great! I love the cartoon about masturbation too. A different, more innocent time.