History Main / SexMiseducationClass

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': The health/sex ed class shown consists of the gym teacher yelling at the girls to not have sex at all lest they get knocked up.

Compare TheTalk, which covers all situations where an authority figure tries to teach a young person about the birds and the bees, MissConception, where a character gets inaccurate information about sex, and EggSitting, the goal of which is to portray the difficulties of caring for a child. Not to be confused with ProfessionalSexEd (where a paid sex worker does some hands-on teaching) or [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex the trope formerly named "You Fail Sex Ed Forever".]] This is also paired with PsychosexualHorror when it's played for horror.

* ''Series/Ted2024'': This kicks off the plot of the episode "He's Gotta Have It".

* ''Yes God, Yes'' takes place in a Catholic school in the TurnOfTheMillennium. The sex ed class there is atrocious with no discussion of anything besides heterosexual sex in marriage and even then, both the kids and adults have severe issues around sex and sexual activity.

Compare TheTalk, which covers all situations where an authority figure tries to teach a young person about the birds and the bees, MissConception, where a character gets inaccurate information about sex, and EggSitting, the goal of which is to portray the difficulties of caring for a child. Not to be confused with ProfessionalSexEd (where a paid sex worker does some hands-on teaching) or [[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex the trope formerly named "You Fail Sex Ed Forever".]]

This trope is influenced by discourse around sex education in real life. Traditionally, sex education was not taught in schools and [[TheTalk left to the parents]] lest it corrupt the children. However, a spate of issues (such as rising teen pregnancies and the AIDS crisis in TheEighties) have helped reframe these classes as a vital public health tool. Some schools have been quicker to catch on than others, though, hence the stumblings depicted here. As such, this is TruthInTelevision; however, due to the controversy surrounding them, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''

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* Narrowly averted in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy''. Tigra brings Valkyrie in as a guest instructor for a girls-only class; unfortunately, she neglects to tell Valkyrie she wants to teach them ''combat'', so Val instead serves them mead and goes on a lecture about how they don't need a man to pleasure them in the bedroom. Tigra cuts her off before she can tell the kids about things "mortal craftsmen" have created to help with this.
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** The Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]" sees sex-ed courses added to the curriculum of South Park Elementary. It goes poorly to say the least: Mr. Mackey is so incompetent he can't even get IkeaErotica right, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics end up sparking a gender war between the students, Mr. Garrison straight up performs sex acts like rolling a condom onto the dildo with his mouth in front of kindergarteners and treats it like normal, and Chef insists that people become sexually ready at the age of 17 regardless of circumstance.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "[[Recap/FamilyGuysS5E6PrickUpYourEars Prick Up Your Ears]]" Lois is hired as the school's sex-ed teacher after learning they don't have one, but is fired after teaching kids how to use condoms. Afterwards, the school brings in a religious abstinence-based sex-ed program whose advice is so bad that the kids start having "aural" sex.[[note]]as in sticking their dicks into ear canals[[/note]]

Usually, this trope applies to a HighSchool sex-ed class or the setting's equivalent of it. The classes themselves will likely be portrayed as awkward and woefully lacking in content, such as [[NatureAdoresAVirgin overemphasizing virginity]], teaching abstinence-only "sex ed" (maybe even by [[ScareEmStraight using scare tactics]]), or only showing the very basics of human anatomy while being very vague [[MissConception or even incorrect]] about the details. Maybe you'll get to put a condom on a banana, but if you want to know more about how periods work, non-heterosexual sex, how to use birth control correctly and where to get it, literally ''anything'' about the clitoris, or [=STDs=], you're fresh out of luck. The assigned instructor is either an ApatheticTeacher who could care less about having to teach "health" or a sincere educator hampered by MoralGuardians who want to [[ThinkOfTheChildren protect the teens' innocence]] because they think SexIsEvil, and/or that teaching kids about it will encourage them to go out and have sex. Either way, the students rarely come out of the class more prepared for intercourse, but the work definitely mined some CringeComedy out of the whole affair.