The main points:

• Frank and accurate sex education in schools that is aimed at all sexualities and genders and that is delivered by a qualified sex specialist.
  
• Consent.
• Making sex ed more friendly to LGBT+ folk
• All forms of contraception and where to get it.
• Masturbation.

 

Taking into account our personal experiences, and also those of our peers who are still in school, we have noticed that we have all had little or no teachings in Sex Ed. We need help to eradicate the stigma attached to anything perceived as sexual, as this unhealthy attitude contributes to the demonisation of genitals, safe-sex, and self-pleasure.

Firstly, one of the main issues we feel needs to be addressed is the fact that many schools have little or no Sex Ed whatsoever. Children should be getting taught about their bodies, their feelings, and other people's bodies from a young age, as this would hopefully lessen the mystery, and show whatever they are experiencing is completely natural. We also believe that such classes should be taken by people who specialise in sexual health, as opposed to a teacher whose only experience is their own, and their partners'. Classes should teach more than how to put on a condom, it should inform about arousal, masturbation, discharge (what should be considered normal; what shouldn't), sexualities, gender binaries and the abundance of different contraceptive methods. Classes should not be about learning the basics and leaving the pupils to figure out the rest.

Teenagers shouldn't feel like they need to turn to pornography when they are confused about sex.

We need to teach safe sex for lgbt+ students, as these classes have always been aimed at heterosexual pupils which is no longer an accurate representation of Scottish youth. 

Support for LGBT+ students who are coming out.

Too much of sex education is about avoidance, we should not be portraying normal, healthy, human feelings in such a negative way. We need to stop making teenagers feel guilty and dirty for something that is natural. 

“The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.”

—  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie