Here’s another repost from Blogspot. This time, it’s from July 15, 2016. The videos are hilarious!
My friend, Donna, posted this article from IrishCentral’s Web site on my Facebook timeline. It’s about a very weird sex education video that was apparently distributed to Irish Catholic schools in the 1980s. As weird and awkward as sex education can be under the best of circumstances, the video highlighted in this article kind of take the cake. Behold!
The videos are pretty funny because they are obviously from the 80s. Had I been born Catholic in Ireland, I might have watched them in school. What really makes me laugh is the way Angela, the lady in the videos, expresses herself. She uses some pretty funny slang to refer to parts of the body as well as going to the bathroom. I laughed out loud when she talked about “doing a big job” in reference to taking a dump.
The rest of the video either made me cringe and blush or exclaim disbelief. Seriously. She’s an old lady talking about fucking and relating it to God. I guess, on a superficial level, it’s cool that she’s not making sex out to be dirty. Of course, the only sex that is okay is that which occurs within the bonds of marriage between two heterosexuals. But once you’re married, have at it and make some babies!
I wonder if the Mormon church ever put out a sex ed video. I doubt the Presbyterians– which is the church I was raised in– ever broached such a subject. I think they expected us to learn about sex in school. But Catholics are a different breed.
I actually kind of like Catholics, even if I would not make a very good one. And these videos, along with Van Morrison, make me want to get on a plane and visit Ireland. I want to see if I can find an Irish lady to tell me about the facts of life. Too funny!
ETA in 2022: Later in 2016, Bill and I took our first trip to Ireland as a couple. We celebrated our 14th anniversary there. We had an amazing time in a cottage right by the sea. I wish I was there now. Especially now that I know I have some Irish ancestry.