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[–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Most still doesn't. It was not taboo, but was not explicetely tought anywhere, except special medical schools. And even if you know about biology, it is hard to learn English variants of words, for some reason.

[–]Realwoman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What do you mean by most? I'm from a former Soviet block country and it's just not true that educated women don't know about female anatomy or that it's not taught in school. Now, of course, most don't know the words in English but that's different.

[–]VioletRemi 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I was in school (Ukraine), reproduction systems were studied for just two or three weeks during anatomy lessons. So we learned it to a degree, but not really in-depth, and most just forget soon after. Nowadays maybe situation is much better, but I do not have a kid, and most likely will never born one (as I am lesbian), so I never checked new ones.

I know tho, that our new goverment is trying to add christian "Family Foundations" as a subject for kids to study, and there a lot of sexism and "what woman and man must do in family", with "man bringing money" and "woman looking after kids and cleaning house/making food", and it is strongly against lesbian or gay people. And things like "if boy was growing up without strong father hand, or with mother only, he will grow up as bandit". Mothers are fighting against that subject. And it all time removed or returned back, as man who trying to make it to schools have a ton of money.