and we decided to round up some of the best answers:
1.
“What discharge is.
It literally happens every day, why did they not tell me?”
“Having a kid is f*cking expensive.”
u/govshutdown
3. u/early_onset_villainy
“I remember our teacher saying something like ‘1 in 4 people will get an STD’.
u/coreysgal
4.
“Sex is not as clean as it looks on TV.”
“Anything about gay sex.
At least when I was a teen.
Half of the stuff they talked about had no relevance to me at all.”
u/foxko
“I expand that to anything regarding LGBTIQA*.”
u/cashmerered
6. u/freshouttalean
7.
“That you should pee after sex.”
8.“Coercion.
u/shoresandsmores
9.
“How to actually have sex.
u/Deadanddugup
10.
Just vagina and thats ok.”
11. u/ivy1991
12.
I learned a lot way too late.”
u/washcapdouble
13.
“I feel like postnatal depression (PND) needs to be discussed a lot more.
It can be absolutely terrifying for new mothers and their partners who aren’t prepared for the possibility.”
u/DarthEcho
15.“Endometriosis.
There should be more awareness about it.
It’s not normal to have really painful menstrual cramps.”
u/dazzlinreddress
16.
It was a taboo topic for us guys in sex ed which in hindsight is kinda stupid.”
“How my own prostate worked.
I had to figure it out years later when people where talking about it online.”
u/Suppi_LL
18.
“They taught us about every STI known to man except the most common one, HPV.”
u/YoungLadHuckleberry
19.
“How to get rid of an erection.
Why is this not day one teaching when the majority of penis owners at that age are suffering?”
H/T tou/Commercial-Jump-6383and AskReddit for having this discussion!
Note: All submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
