It's interesting to read about the different sex eds and health classes people took. I went to elementary school in South Dakota and towards the end of 5th grade they taught us about puberty in about one hour. By which I mean, one afternoon the boys and girls between my class and the one next door separated into genders and us girls watched a video about periods. And then made the teachers uncomfortable when I pointed out the video didn't mention tampons. That was about a half hour. Then on a different afternoon my entire class watched a video about molestation that absolutely terrified me at one point because I expected someone's ear to get bitten off (it's a long story). That was the other half hour.
I went to middle and high school in Arizona, however. And Arizona was the first state to have mandatory abstinence-only sex ed (once a week, during health class). So condoms were never mentioned, except to say how inefficient they are. Diaphragms didn't exist. Birth control pills don't work either. If you have sex you WILL get an STD (cue the pictures), and if you don't get an STD you become pregnant/you get someone pregnant. And pregnancy became "being a single parent is terrible!" The only teacher who talked about pregnancy was the biology teacher, and
that was because a student genuinely wanted to know about it. It was a very scientific discussion, and I do believe the teacher got in big trouble over it (by which I mean, she was fired after the school year ended).
Honestly, I didn't know that taking care of an egg/doll was a real thing. I thought it only existed in books and TV.
By the way, health class was basically nutritional information, how to take care of yourself during a cold, cigarettes, beer, and drugs are bad, that sort of thing. Just a mandatory joke of a class. In middle school it was taught by the other computer teacher when he wasn't teaching computers in 8th grade (or whatever the fuck the class was, we just dicked around online when the server wasn't down due to viruses), and in high school it was a sophomore class done by the tennis teacher when she wasn't teaching tennis. She was a bit of a hardass but at the same time didn't really give a shit. You could tell she'd rather be down at the tennis courts then tell us all about how we need to drink plenty of fluids and rest when we feel sick.
