Growing Up

Growing Up

Part of The Joy of Sex Education

1971•22m•5.4/10

Documentary

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5.4/10(5)

Freedom of expression and sexual liberation might have defined the 1960s but by 1971 the British education system was far from ready for Dr Cole's explicit series A New Approach to Sex Education. Made as a teaching aid for use in schools an universities, the Growing Up was unprecedented in its depictions of erect penises, un-simulated masturbation and intercourse to describe the development of the human body and sexuality to students.

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Institute for Sex Education and Research

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Martin Cole

Himself - Narrator

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