America is a huge country and every county in every state has a different sex Ed curriculum . The more liberal states tend to have more comprehensive sex Ed . Mine was comprehensive . For one , we were shown this movielife 1983 nova . In my county , we have sex Ed 3 times once in 5 th grade , once in 7 th grade , and once in 12 th grade . Each time gets progressively more detailed . In elementary school , it ' s really basic when a mommy loves a daddy very much . and how is babby formed from zygote to birth . Since for me this was in the 90 s , we talked a lot about AIDS . Dispelling myths like you can ' t get HIV from touching someone , don ' t do the blood brothers thing where you both prick your fingers and touch , always use protection , stuff like that . They also had a part where you could anonymously ask any question . Because of the way they taught it , I thought AIDS formed spontaneously from the exchange of body fluids . They separated the boys from the girls to talk about anatomy , yet we still giggled when penis and vagina came up . This anatomy was very basic penis , urethra , testicles vagina , urethra , ovaries , uterus , cervix , and labia . They told us about periods and stuff so when I got my period I knew exactly what was happening and wasn ' t worried , it was more of an inconvenience . They told us about pads and tampons . They also told us about boners and wet dreams . They also told us about how wetting the bed is common and if you wet the bed now you ' ll probably grow out of it . We learned that anal sex and oral sex are things . In middle school , it was much more detailed . MUCH more . It was in a course called health class . I know we had one health class in 6 th grade and one in 7 th grade , so I ' m probably mixing up which was in what . These health classes covered a lot of stuff like basic first aid , what CPR is but obviously didn ' t certify us , depression , suicide , eating disorders , drugs , addiction , teen pregnancy , forms of contraception and how you should ALWAYS USE IT , sexual harassment , and STDs and that barrier methods are the only way to protect against STDs . We learned about the difference between strokes and heart attacks and how to recognize them . I know there had to have been other stuff , but I can ' t remember right now since this was like 15 years ago . But basically most of what Boyinaband on YouTube complains about we were taught about . Like the signs of someone who ' s suicidal or has an eating disorder . We also had two HIV people come in to talk to us . 5 years later , I ' d see the exact same people come in to talk about AIDS again . Unlike a lot of other people , my school ' s sex Ed program didn ' t teach us how to put on a condom . I ' ve never actually learned and always relied on my SO to do that . Again , we had more stuff about anatomy but added stuff like glans , clitoris , and vulva . They told us masturbation is the name for touching yourself . But I do remember they did emphasize that the only 100 % foolproof method of contraception was abstinence . We were told about how anal sex and oral sex counts as sex . And how In high school , it was a lot like middle school but it was a year long health class instead of a few weeks . I saw The Miracle of Life again . This time we got more detailed on anatomy . We had to learn how sperm was made from testicle to when it flies out the top . Same with periods . Every part of the male and female anatomy had to be memorized . So Fallopian tubes , Cowper ' s gland , prostate , bartholin ' s gland , seminal vesicles , epididymus , vulva , labia minora , labia majora , etc . This was the first time I remember learning about masturbation . We learned that it ' s okay to masturbate and it ' s okay not to masturbate , you won ' t get furry palms , etc . In one of the movies we watched , at one point the kid asking around goes up to a zookeeper and the zookeeper says Well , I ' m a zookeeper and I can tell you I ' ve seen a whole lot of penises . That made us all crack up . We learned again about STDs but much more detailed . We learned about the bacterias and viruses that caused each STD and handed photographs of what each looked like . We obviously learned about AIDS , but obviously not detailed enough to go into reverse transcription . We also were told about each form of contraception from condoms to sterilization . We had a woman from Planned Parenthood come talk to us about rape . We were given basic information about nutrition which basically amounted to Fast food and candy is bad , mkay ? For some reason , we also learned about head and spine injuries to get us to wear helmets and not dive in the shallow end . A quadriplegic also came in so we could ask questions . We also went over a bunch of common mental illnesses from depression and OCD , to eating disorders and bipolar . We spent a lot of time talking about suicide again and recognizing the warning signs . They told us about stress management . We talked about drug addiction , smoking , and drinking . We talked about drunk driving and always having a designated driver . To demonstrate why , a cop came with a riding mower and gave us drunk goggles goggles that blur and refract light in such a way to mess with your coordination to simulate drunkness and had us do three point turns and drive an obstacle course . We also played catch with the goggles on . We learned about identifying skin cancer and how you should always wear sun screen and avoid tanning beds . We also learned about the stages of grief . These are just some of the things I remember learning . In America , your parents have to sign a permission slip to let you participate in sex Ed . If they say no , you don ' t learn sex Ed . I can ' t recall anyone whose parents didn ' t sign the permission slip , but it was for those religious parents who didn ' t want their kids to be corrupted by liberals or whatever . Tldr Some states have abstinence only sex Ed , others don ' t .