During the sixties and seventies.

[Bingo the Poop-Eating Dog]

Did someone say Sex Education?

I remember people asking deliberately fatuous questions, like 'Can you catch VD from masturbating?'

I also remember a boy who fainted in class when shown a photo of a lady-with-no-clothes-on. (But being a great guy, I shan't out him publicly.)

[Rory]

Maybe it was his mum...???

[englishangel]

If you want fatuous questions, try this site.

http://www.faqfarm.com/

Most of it is from the US and some of the sex ed and pregnancy questions they ask are hilarious.

Some of the others are so simple that yoy could get the answer from google in 3 seconds, and the spelling!!!!!

[IanH]

• No, it was Nell Todd.

[mr tall]

Hey that was an offensive remark!!

How dare you!!!











It was Ma Masson!

[J.R.]

Hey that was an offensive remark!!

How dare you!!!











It was Ma Masson!

That name rings a bell from the past.

Did she work part-time and teach maths, and live just outside Horsham Town Centre ??

[IanH]

Or it could have been Oddjob; the short, stout dietitian of indeterminate gender with the full moustache. You may remember her plodding around the dinning hall. She went on to stardom in the movie “Goldfinger”.

[5h17shoveller]

Its the 5th anniversary of the last post on this thread.

I WAS ALWAYS VERY SLOW !

Just like to add that before I was "sent" to CH I was top of my class intelligence /sport infact everything wise (in the middle of no-where in the Dorset outback) and a real whizz with the opposite sex (yes, that's west country girls) infact I had six (6) girlfriends on the go when I was about nine (9). Spent all my primary school playground life checking out girls blue undies in the bike sheds. MEMORIES.

However when i arrived at CH I was still only 10 and therefore a year younger than some of my contemporaries and I was the second youngest boy in the school . I left primary school not having taken the 11 plus , so got into CH a year early.

It knocked my confidence when I suddenly realised I was not so bright ,infact pretty dumb according to Nick Plumley ( latin what a nightmare ! ) and with the first 12 months being homesick .

I remember the only sex lesson we had , mainly because I thought " your joking if you think I am going anywhere near that " and when the whole class was asked how may testicles they had some idiot said 81, whereupon the teacher said "would you like to prove it" !! Needless to say there was no evidence. I think the teacher was DR Matthews.

Some of the boys in my senior house I remember going to a a local disco (pete middleton always came back with a smile) but I didn't go,and I lost contact with the opposite sex for my time at CH so it put me back there also !!
Basically the school was brilliant , I loved the sport , I played "dot cricket" through alot of lessons instead of paying attention , If only I had realised at the time how lucky I was then I would probably have now been what my parents wanted me to be.
I live 300 miles away from the school so no way would I have sent my son or even asked him if he wanted to go to CH , however if I was living in Horsham then yes I would, so he could come home at weekends and of course there are girls there now , so I would have loved him to go.

I have been married twice and have two boys so it's not a such a sad story after all , perhaps late development was not a bad thing ,size 14 feet helps aswell.

[Mid A 15]

Its the 5th anniversary of the last post on this thread.

I WAS ALWAYS VERY SLOW !

Just like to add that before I was "sent" to CH I was top of my class intelligence /sport infact everything wise (in the middle of no-where in the Dorset outback) and a real whizz with the opposite sex (yes, that's west country girls) infact I had six (6) girlfriends on the go when I was about nine (9). Spent all my primary school playground life checking out girls blue undies in the bike sheds. MEMORIES.

However when i arrived at CH I was still only 10 and therefore a year younger than some of my contemporaries and I was the second youngest boy in the school . I left primary school not having taken the 11 plus , so got into CH a year early.

It knocked my confidence when I suddenly realised I was not so bright ,infact pretty dumb according to Nick Plumley ( latin what a nightmare ! ) and with the first 12 months being homesick .

I remember the only sex lesson we had , mainly because I thought " your joking if you think I am going anywhere near that " and when the whole class was asked how may testicles they had some idiot said 81, whereupon the teacher said "would you like to prove it" !! Needless to say there was no evidence. I think the teacher was DR Matthews.

Some of the boys in my senior house I remember going to a a local disco (pete middleton always came back with a smile) but I didn't go,and I lost contact with the opposite sex for my time at CH so it put me back there also !!
Basically the school was brilliant , I loved the sport , I played "dot cricket" through alot of lessons instead of paying attention , If only I had realised at the time how lucky I was then I would probably have now been what my parents wanted me to be.
I live 300 miles away from the school so no way would I have sent my son or even asked him if he wanted to go to CH , however if I was living in Horsham then yes I would, so he could come home at weekends and of course there are girls there now , so I would have loved him to go.

I have been married twice and have two boys so it's not a such a sad story after all , perhaps late development was not a bad thing ,size 14 feet helps aswell.

I can relate to quite a bit of your post.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I don't think the term "Sex Education" existed in the 40s.
I certainly didn't get any at CH, but was "Instructed" by my Mother.

You may draw your own conclusions about how that has affected my Personality ------- -- -- --

[DavidRawlins]

Ma Massen was married to Mr Massen who taught modern languages; he may have been head of the department. They had a son, in Col B I think.

[englishangel]

What do size 14 feet have to do with anything? My son takes size 9!!!!!!

[Angela Woodford]

Look back to those days of doing urology, Mary.... you remember? The shoe size corresponded to the size of their, er um. member. Tee hee! Really sophisticated student nurse humour.

[englishangel]

I have come over all panto. "Oh no it didn't"

I have found it a rumour put about by men with big shoes.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I see, before me, a large pit, complete with spikes at the bottom, and cunningly concealed with grass ------------

I refuse to enter !!!