This post is dedicated to Stellaa, who apparently wasn't all that into my journey of personal self discovery via ridiculous dog costumes.

I think Molly's father is also the coach in As Boys Grow. And speaking of Molly's father, that family sure seems to like openly talking about menstruation.

But not sexual desire. Oh, no, that's what the men are supposed to know. They'll show you how it's done, Molly. They've seen the charts.

Don't be knocking on them charts. Those charts are vintage! Beats the complete lack of any sex ed I got in school. Learned what I needed to know from dad's porn collection. Thumbed.

Vintage vixen, vamp, violator, vibrator, viscosity, vitriolic, voluptuous, vigina, vestibule, visage, vindicated, Verona.
Your post made me go into a stream of conscious, to avoid the real subject...Catholic, no sex ed, no way. So sheltered!

Boing Boing recently had a link to a Disney-produced, Kotex-sponsored sex-ed film for girls. Seemed a lot less square than "Molly Grows Up."

In the 6th grade the boys in my class got to see a really lame filmstrip. Bland cartoonish artwork, the bare minimum of information.

That REALLY made me unhappy. Poor little Molly didn't get permission to masturbate OR directions on exactly how to have sex.

The injustice of it all! Pfft! :P

(thumbifed, golly gee!)

Man, I never knew I was supposed to wear my best dress and paint my nails when I'm on the rag. I thought I was supposed to look like hammered shit. Damn Catholic school education!

I love this! We never got to see the Molly movie because when the sex-ed/health/athletic teacher took the boys out of the room, us girls threaded the movie the boys were supposed to watch. (hooray for the education of the Media Club!) We figured we already knew all the "girl stuff" anyway. The saddest part is that this was my sophmore year in high school in 1986! Most girls had already started their periods and many of us had already lost our virginity. There was a lot of detailed stuff I didn't learn until I took Human Sexuality in college! I can only hope that small town Illinois has found it in the budget to upgrade the sex-ed films and perhaps introduce them (or it) in a more comprehensive way at a much earlier age.

You need only check your local health department an your state's ranking in teen pregnancy to get an idea of where each ranks in sex education, unfortunately, none do quite well enough. Let's all try to take more responsibility, individuals, parents, peers, schools and local, satte and national education policies - then we'll see a difference!

In seventh or eighth grade CCD (catechism), we were shown a bishop-approved sex ed video that tried really, really hard to be "edgy" and "relate" to youth.

Of course, it failed miserably. The high point was the part where a male middle-aged CCD teacher wearing a black t-shirt printed with "TESTOSTERONE" and a female middle-aged CCD teacher wearing a black t-shirt printed with "ESTROGEN" performed a song-and-dance routine called "The Hormone Rap."

This was in 1993 or 1994, and the video was part of the "Growing Up Sexually" series, which was in wide use in Catholic parishes in the U.S. and Canada at that time. I have so far been unable to acquire a copy for my personal collection. If anyone can help me get my hands on this gem, I will give you my firstborn child.

Also, in vintage sex ed films, go to YouTube and check out "Am I Normal?" which was made in the 1970s for boys.

Judy Blume was a veritable font of information to a young girl.

Sex Ed the Adam and Eve way: "Here, bite this."