SEX EDUCATION WAS LIKE A GOOD SHAG

 Watching Sex Education on Netflix, was like having good sex. I felt satisfied, understood and a bit like oh this is what it supposed to feel like!

Like most girls my age, I grew up on the high school box sets and films like - Mean Girls, Skins, the OC , Gossip Girl, Clueless. Just to name a few. The quotes, the names, the anecdotes are so ingrained into my brain they almost feel like my own stories. And I have always L-O-V-E-D them. They have a special nostalgic place in my heart.  

But Sex Education has kinda fucked that. It feels very similar, to the time Jamie Oliver told us all that Chicken Nuggets, where in fact mushed up bones and brains. Because now I can’t help but notice, that I grew up being told that high school is all -  fit people, in barely any clothes, being bitchy or getting fucked.

And don’t get me wrong.

Sex Education has those characters, but they aren’t the main narrative. They are just part of it - as they are in majority of our secondary school experiences. My favourite characters from Sex Education, are beautifully flawed and real. I think Otis is cool. And that’s not because he’s some good boy gone wrong. It’s because he is empathetic, grown-up and understanding. Either my taste in men has drastically improved or for once a nice boy has been portrayed well! He is the complete opposite from Cooke or John Tucker! And don’t get me started on Lily’s sexy dancing with her tits out - it’s beautiful. Purely B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L.

Rather than just representing an exaggerated version of high school and cramming in some shoddy morals. I believe Sex Education comes from a place of actually teaching us a lesson. We all make different choices. We all come from different places. And no-one has it perfectly easy.  The lesson is not preachy. It’s not transparent. It’s not forced. It’s light, breezy. And just like any good PSHCE lesson in the temporary cabins (which are still very permanently there, nearly 7 years later) you might not even notice that you’ve learnt anything, but you definitely had a laugh, and feel a bit better about yourself. R.I.P. to the TV I grew up on.  Because I hope Sex Education marks the point of a different mainstream teenage narrative.

And I am very very into it!