The most bizarre sexual education that people actually received

No idea how it was for you, but my whole class wasn't exactly looking forward to sex education. I mean, we all knew how it worked, that you can't get pregnant from oral sex but you can from intercourse, and yes, condoms ensured that you wouldn't get pregnant. Even worse was that our teacher (this was in the second year of high school by the way) thought it was a good idea to put a condom on a broomstick. Just so we knew how it worked. Condom + broomstick + old biology teacher + class full of teenagers = complete chaos.

But hey, at least we got sex education. I think it's quite common in the Netherlands to have it at school, no matter how awkward it is. That's different in America: there, it's only mandatory in 13 states to provide sex education. And yes, it is indeed true that the number of teenage pregnancies in the states where it is hardly taught in schools is many times higher, just like the amount of STIs.

The reasons for that can actually be quite varied. Some schools don't provide education due to religion, some schools are just not very good in quality (for example, because of the neighborhood they are in or a lack of teachers), and when sex education is provided, it can also be the case that the teacher knows just as little as the kids in the class. Hence the answers to the following question (which was asked on Reddit) are quite, ehh... striking.

Oh, and by the way, just so you know: there are going to be a lot of WTF moments coming up.

‘Try not to push your penis in too far during sex, because a baby can grab it and pull itself out.’

‘No girl will ever want to have sex with a boy.’

‘Semen is the whitest substance that exists on earth.’

‘When I was in high school, our teacher seriously told us that women could get pregnant by sleeping naked next to a man. She said that one of her best friends had kissed and slept naked with a man and was now pregnant.’

‘Condoms don't work 16 percent of the time because there are tiny holes in them and sometimes sperm can swim through. The HIV virus is 100 percent smaller than sperm, so it can definitely get through a condom.’

‘Don't go into dark alleys because you will definitely have sex there.’

‘She gave the tip: wrap it twice, just as nice.’

‘My gym teacher said it was impossible to have sex with a woman if she didn't want to. Because if she doesn't want to, the holes close up by themselves. Guess what? That guy is now in prison.’

‘Abstinence is the only way to get to heaven. Unless you're married.’

‘Every time you have sex with a man, you lose some of your special glue. When all your glue is gone, no one will want to marry you anymore.’

‘That men had to be circumcised before having sex, otherwise the foreskin would tear. And that leads to various infections, permanent mutilations, or death.’

‘Every time you have sex, it's like taking a tissue out of a box, and no one wants an empty tissue box, of course.’

‘That lesbians were 100 percent safe from STIs.’

‘Masturbation makes your penis grow. A teacher told us this during school camp. Half of my class was fiddling with their genitals for the rest of the afternoon.’

‘You can't get pregnant during your period.’