Rhymes and reasons : how eight people learnt about sex.

Date:
1981
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About this work

Description

The film shows eight different people talking about their experience of sex education. They are interviewed individually and in pairs; they are of different ages and backgrounds. The recurring message is that official sex education was lacking and it was primarily through their own research or peers stories that they have educated themselves. Themes covered include the birth of siblings, menstruation, pornography, rumours, stealing of contraceptives, basic or confusing films at school, going to dances and the cinema, bragging, D. H. Lawrence and the female sexual response, flirting, disability, magazines, agony aunts, loss of virginity and parents.

Publication/Creation

1981.

Physical description

1 videocassette (31:37 min.) (Betamax) : sound, colour
2 videocassettes (31:37 min. each) (DIGIBETA) : sound, colour
2 DVDs (31:37 min. each) : sound, colour ; 12 cm

Copyright note

Family Planning Association.

Notes

More material about the Family Planning Association is found in the archives under SA/FPA.
There is an information leaflet in the department which can be consulted separately (there is also a copy in the archives SA/FPA.
The quality of the transferred footage is poor; both drop out and colour problems.
The material was retransferred with another vendor; the footage is improved in places but there is significant drop out in the first half of the programme. Both transfers have been retained; the requestable material and the digitised content are from the first transfer. The other material is available by appointment.

Creator/production credits

Video Projects. Produced with the Family Planning Association Education Unit by Tony Nicholls, Rose Shapiro, Claire Tanner. Thanks are given to the interviewees; Doreen Brown, Shelley Charlesworth, Simon Jennings, Yasmin Judd, Flo and Bill Meek, Ian Morten, Jan Parker. Jonathan Collinson, John Dovey Fantasy Factory, Oval Video.

Language note

In English.

Type/Technique

Languages

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