In the past two days, a news caused a stir on the Internet.
A certain university explicitly stipulates in the student manual that students are prohibited from having sex without marriage.
Some people support and some people oppose it, and the two sides argued hard.
Coincidentally, a similar plot has appeared in a recent popular new drama, and a discussion on the topic of sex education was launched for adolescent students.
When film and television stills enter reality, what inspiration can it bring to us?
Let’s talk about it today—
Sex study room Season 3
Director: Ben Taylor / Rouniaro Mapformo
Screenwriter: Laurie Nunn / Sophie Goodhart / Alice Sibright Selina Lin / Mawan Rizwan / Temi Wilkie
starter: Assa Butterfield / Gillian Anderson / Shuti Gatewa Emma McGee / Connor Swindell / Keda William Stirling
Highlights: 2021-09-17 (UK)Episodes: 8Single episodes: 60 minutes
This is a British drama produced by Netfei .
in the first two seasons received 9+ ratings on Douban and was shortlisted for the list of the best-reputable British and American dramas of the year. The third season of
, which was just aired, also has a good reputation. As of now, more than 30,000 people have rated high scores of .2.
You can see from the title of the drama, this is a large-scale drama.
not only involves adult topics related to sex, but also has naked pictures and shots.
But under this eye-catching shell, its core aims at the part that is quite scarce in traditional education, but I am embarrassed to say it -
Sex education.
As usual, let me briefly review the plot of the previous two seasons.
The protagonist of the story is Odes (Assa Butterfield) , is a high school student.
is placed in the crowd, and he seems to be inconspicuous.
However, Otis has a unique trouble:
After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother Jenny .
And Jenny's profession is very special - A sex and emotional therapist.
Odes has a best friend - Eric .
Eric is gay, but it has not affected their friendship at all.
They go to school together every day and are friends who can say everything.
Odes' life would have been like most ordinary high school students.
Until one day, he met another girl from the same school Mave (Emma McCann ).
Maeve is a very smart and very personal girl, and she is also very business-minded.
She found that Otis was influenced by the knowledge related to sex, and was very thoughtful and good at solving problems.
So, she proposed the suggestion of opening a clinic with Odis to solve the doubts and obstacles encountered by her peers on this private issue.
An organization called "Teen Sex Consultation Room" was established.
In the first two seasons, the combination of Odes and Maeve solved the problems for many adolescent men and women.
Some people are afraid of the X organ of the opposite sex; some don’t know how to communicate effectively with their lovers; some are eager for X love but don’t know how to start; some are in a nude photo crisis and humiliated by sluts...
A variety of cases together show us all the problems that contemporary teenagers may encounter, and also let us see the various possibilities of intimate relationships.
At the end of the second season, the characters in the play went to different endings -
Odise and Maeve had a crush on each other, but they couldn't get together due to various misunderstandings.
Odes mustered up the courage to send Mave a voice message of confession, but was quietly deleted by a disabled boy named Isaac.
Eric broke up with his boyfriend Rasim, and he discovered his true thoughts.
Under Adam's brave confession, Eric took Adam's hand and started a new relationship.
Odes' mother suffered from perimenopause syndrome and became pregnant unexpectedly.
Her original life trajectory was completely disrupted and she fell into a dilemma of being at a loss.
There is also the Modal Middle School in the play, which made it into the news because of the "sex consultation room" and a bold subversive "sex musical".
Principal Grove resigned under pressure, and the future of the entire school and all students is uncertain.
Season 3 has just begun, and it is seamlessly connected with the plot of the second season.
After a holiday, all the students returned to school.
Odes talked about love with Ruby, the most popular hot girl in the school, and became the focus of attention.
Even so, there are still many problems with this relationship.
Rubi is very picky about Odes, and will accuse him of his words and deeds, arrange his clothes, and even dare not disclose this relationship at the beginning.
Because in her heart, Odith is just a well-lived but tasteless nerd.
And in Odith's heart, Ruby is not his true beloved either.
Therefore, when Ruby finally opened her heart and confessed her affectionately to him, he chose to quit.
On the story line of Eric, although he started dating Adam, it was not going well.
Adam is a person who is extremely depressed, dare not and is good at expressing himself.
When the two agreed to have a relationship, Adam became cowardly and did not dare to reveal his true thoughts.
In front of outsiders, Adam was not ready to disclose his relationship with Eric, which made Eric deeply distressed.
And Odith's mother Jenny, this line is also full of emotional obstacles.
After she decided to give birth to this child, she found the child's father, Jacob, for in-depth communication.
She hopes that the two of them will raise the child together, so the two live together again and try to repair the once injured and broken relationship.
Finally, the school in the play has also undergone major changes.
As the previous principal resigned, the school welcomed a new principal Ms. Harden .
Harden is a decisive person who has carried out a series of drastic reforms as soon as he took office.
First of all, there is a yellow dividing line on the campus, the purpose is to allow the students to walk neatly and orderly.
storage cabinet is painted with a serious gray color, and various prohibition signs are posted in every corner of the school.
In addition, she also asked her classmates to wear the same school uniform, not dye their hair, wear jewelry, pierce loops and holes, etc.
From the inside out, a set of strict discipline rules is deeply imprinted in the school.
If the above changes are understandable, then Harden's reform in sex education is really unreasonable.
She removed the students' secret "sex clinic" and did not allow mention of lyrics related to sex and body organs on campus.
The most exaggerated thing is that she also organized and carried out sex education classes for her classmates, promoting the concepts of homophobia and abstinence in the class, strictly opposing sexual behavior, and trying to kill all intimate behaviors during adolescence. This wrong educational method,
, not only cannot solve students' questions about sex, but will cause greater panic and misunderstandings.
Through these changes in the school, different characters in the film also present various indescribable distress and dilemmas in terms of sex.
Some boys have "General Anxiety" , and do not understand the basic common sense.
When there is a problem with your girlfriend's sex life, you don't know how to find the causes and solutions in the right way.
just blindly thinks that there is a problem with your size, and thus becomes inferior and depressed .
Some people are "non-binary gender" , and believe that they are neither male nor female in the social sense, and there is change and flow.
However, the school’s tough regulations did not take into account such students and also negated such a possibility.
There are also girls who leave their psychological shadows after experiencing sexual harassment.
She decided to seek professional psychological counseling and treatment, but she had to face the trauma of the past again.
It can be found that for adolescent men and women, there are more or less doubts and troubles about sex topics.
If you conduct inappropriate sex education, or even rely on "abstinence" and restrict the acquisition of "sexual" information, it will only confuse their misunderstanding of sex and gender.
It is better to lose it than to block it. Only by facing it directly, guiding it reasonably and answering it scientifically is the correct solution.
And this is exactly the significance of this series:
It uses large-scale themes and storylines as a breakthrough, allowing us to see the general situation of the lack of sexual education in schools and parents.
On this basis, a large number of issues related to family, love, and interpersonal relationships were also discussed.
Native family, identity, LGBT, campus bullying, intergenerational communication, etc.
These seemingly heavy topics are spread out with a slightly joking plot.
allows the audience to see through the essence of every serious issue in conflict and seek the most appropriate solution.
It also makes every audience realize that sex is not a disaster.
On the contrary, learning to love and be loved is not only a ability, but also a "compulsory course" that we should spend our whole life studying.
