In the past two days, a piece of news has caused an uproar on the Internet.
A university clearly stipulates in its student handbook that students are prohibited from having sex without marriage.
Some people supported and some people opposed, and the two sides quarreled bitterly.
Coincidentally, a similar plot has appeared in a recent popular new drama, and a discussion about sex education for adolescent students has begun.
When film and television stills come to life, what enlightenment can it bring to us?
Let's talk about it today -
Sex Study Room Season 3
Director: Ben Taylor / Runharo Mapfumo
Writers: Laurie Nunn / Sophie Goodhart / Alice Sybreit Selena Lin / Mavan Rizwan / Termi Wilkie
Starring: Asa Butterfield / Gillian Anderson / SchutiGatva Emma McKee / Connor Swingell / Kaida William Sterling
Premiere: 2021-09-17 (UK) Episode Count: 8 Episode Length: 60 minutes
This is a British drama produced by Netflix.
The first two seasons have received a 9+ rating on Douban and have been shortlisted for the list of the best British and American dramas of the year.
The third season, which just aired, was also well received, with more than 30,000 people rating a high score of 9.2 so far.
As you can see from the title, this is a large-scale drama.
Not only do they involve adult topics related to sex, but there is no shortage of naked pictures and shots.
But underneath this eye-catching shell, its core is aimed at the part of our traditional education that is quite scarce, but it is embarrassed to say.
sex education.
According to the convention, let's briefly review the plot of the first two seasons.
The protagonist of the story is named Otis (Asa Butterfield), a high school student.
Placed in the crowd, he seemed unremarkable.
However, Otis has a different annoyance:
After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother, Jenny.
Jenny's profession is special — a sex and relationship therapist.
Otis has a best friend, Eric.
Eric is gay, but it doesn't affect their friendship in the slightest.
They go to school together every day and are friends who don't talk about anything.
Otis's life would have been like most ordinary high school students.
Until one day, he meets another girl from the same school, Maeve (Emma McCann).
Maeve is a very intelligent and very personal girl, and she is also particularly business-minded.
She found that Otis was obsessed with sexual knowledge, and was delicate and problem-solving.
So she proposed to open a clinic in partnership with Otis to solve the doubts and obstacles encountered by her peers in this private issue.
An organization called the Adolescent Sex Counseling Room was founded.
In the first two seasons, the combination of Otis and Maeve has solved problems for many adolescent men and women.
Some are afraid of X organs of the opposite sex; some don't know how to communicate effectively with their lovers; some crave X love but don't know how to start; some are in nude photos and slut-shaming...
In a variety of cases, we are truly shown the problems that contemporary teenagers may encounter, and we also see the various possibilities of intimate relationships.
At the end of the second season, the characters in the show go to different endings -
Otis and Maeve have a crush on each other, but they can't come together because of various misunderstandings.
Otis plucked up the courage to send Maeve a voice message of confession, but was quietly deleted by a disabled boy named Isaac.
Eric breaks up with her boyfriend Rasim, and he discovers his true thoughts.
Under Adam's brave confession, Eric took Adam's hand and began a new relationship.
Otis's mother developed perimenopause syndrome and became pregnant unexpectedly.
Her original life trajectory was completely disrupted and she was overwhelmed.
There is also Modal Middle School in the play, because of the "sex counseling room" and a bold subversive "sex musical" on the news.
Principal Grove was pressured to leave his post, and the future of the entire school and all students was uncertain.
At the beginning of the third season, it was seamless with the plot of the second season.
After a holiday, the whole class went back to school.
Otis and Ruby, the school's most popular hot girl, fell in love and became the focus of everyone's attention.
Even so, there are still many problems in this relationship.
Ruby is critical of Otis, accusing him of his words and deeds, arranging his dress, and even daring not to disclose the relationship at first.
Because in her mind, Otis was just a good but tasteless nerd.
In Otis's mind, Ruby is not his true beloved.
So when Ruby finally opened up and confessed affectionately to him, he opted out.
In Eric's storyline, although he and Adam began to communicate, it did not go well.
Adam was an extremely repressive man who did not dare or be good at expressing himself.
When the two agreed to have a relationship, Adam became cowardly and evasive, and did not dare to reveal his true thoughts.
In front of outsiders, Adam is not ready to disclose his relationship with Eric, which makes Eric deeply distressed.
There is also the line of Ortis's mother, Jenny, which is also full of emotional obstacles.
After she decided to give birth to the child, she found the child's father, Jacob, and had in-depth communication.
She wants the two to raise the child together, so the two live together again and try to repair the once injured and broken relationship.
Finally, at the heart of the story, the school in the play has also undergone major changes.
Due to the departure of the previous principal, the school has welcomed a new principal, Ms. Harden.
Harden is a man of great power, taking office with a series of drastic reforms.
The first is the corridor on campus, with an extra yellow dividing line, which is intended to allow students to walk in a neat and orderly manner.
Lockers were painted a serious gray, and various no-holds-barred notices were posted in various corners of the school.
In addition, she also asked her classmates to wear the same uniform, and not to dye their hair, wear jewelry, wear rings and punch holes, and so on.
From the inside out, a set of strict discipline rules is deeply imprinted in the school.
If these changes are understandable, then Harden's reform of sex education is really difficult to understand.
She dismantled the students' secret "sex clinic" and did not allow the mention of lyrics related to sex and body organs on campus.
The most exaggerated thing is that she also organized sex education classes for her classmates, promoting the concepts of homophobia and abstinence in the class, harshly opposing sexual behavior, and trying to stifle all adolescent intimate behaviors.
This wrong way of education, far from solving the students' doubts about sex, will cause greater panic and misunderstanding.
Through these changes in school, it also presents different roles in the film, and various unspeakable troubles and dilemmas in sex.
Some boys have "genital anxiety" and do not understand the basic common sense.
When there is a problem with the sex life with his girlfriend, he does not know how to find the cause and solution in the right way.
I just blindly feel that there is a problem with my own size, and thus become inferior and depressed.
Some people are "non-binary genders" who consider themselves neither male nor female in the social sense, and there is change and mobility.
But the school's tough rules do not take such students into account and deny such a possibility.
Some girls have left a psychological shadow after experiencing sexual harassment.
She decided to seek professional counseling and treatment, but 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 distresses on the topic of sex.
Inappropriate sex education, even relying on "abstinence" and restricting access to "sex" information, will only confuse their misconceptions about sex and gender.
Blocking is better than slacking, only direct face, reasonable guidance, scientific solution is the correct solution.
And this is the meaning of the existence of this series:
It takes large-scale themes and storylines as a breakthrough, allowing us to see the general situation of the lack of sex education in schools and parents.
On this basis, a large number of issues related to family, love, and interpersonal communication are also discussed.
Family of origin, identity, LGBT, school bullying, intergenerational communication, and more.
These seemingly heavy topics unfold with a slightly ridiculous plot.
Let the audience see through the essence of each serious issue in the conflict together, and seek the most appropriate solution.
It also makes every viewer realize that sex is not a flood beast.
On the contrary, learning to love and be loved is not only an ability, but also a "compulsory course" that we should devote our lives to studying.