Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)

Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)

Growing Up: A New Approach to Sex Education, No. 1 (1971)
23min | Short, Documentary | 1971 (UK)

Plot:

From the impenetrably euphemistic to the breathtakingly explicit, this intriguing anthology takes us through 60 yearsof sex education in Britain from the 1910s to the 1970s.All ‘unmentionable matters’ pertaining to sex are dealt with, from the WW1 warning to soldiers about the dangers of cavorting with loose women in London’s West End, Whatsoever a Man Soweth (1917), to puberty pep-talks for girls on how to avoid pregnancy in Don’t Be Like Brenda (1973).

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Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994

Not Angels But Angels 1994
1h 20min | Documentary | 1994

Storyline:

Exploitative mockumentary with interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. Most of their clients are foreign tourists, many are German. The youths talk about why they hustle, their first trick, prices, dangers, what they know about AIDS, their fears (disease and loneliness), and how they imagine their futures. The film’s title, its liturgical score, much of it elegiac, and shots of the city’s statues of angels underline the vulnerability and callow lack of sophistication of the young men.

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Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind – das unbekannte Wesen 1970

Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind - das unbekannte Wesen 1970

Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind – das unbekannte Wesen 1970
1h 33min | Documentary | 1 October 1970 (West Germany)

Plot:
Naturism on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, naked children, Kolle, and a real birth. Be frank sex education for young people, especially teenagers. Shame the outdated and lit (think) images are from the hippie era. More than twenty years later with new text and comments and reassembled (and a little shortened) for broadcast on TV, but it does not. (google translated)

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Argentynska lekcja 2011

Argentynska lekcja 2011

Argentynska lekcja 2011
56min | Documentary | 2 May 2013 (Spain)

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Two Lessons unites a pair of hour-long documentaries by Polish cinematographer and director Wojciech Staron, each depicting a community of agrarian or hard-laboring citizens, without condescension and with a touch of populist poetry. The first, Siberian Lesson, follows Staron’s young girlfriend, Malgosia, in 1996 as she journeys 7,000 kilometers by train to the small Siberian city of Usolye-Sibirskoye, to give Polish-language lessons to the descendants of exiles from her country. As Malgosia navigates through her culture shock with increasing confidence,

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More from the Language of Love 1970

More from the Language of Love 1970

More from the Language of Love 1970
Mera ur kärlekens språk (original title)
1h 30min | Documentary | 18 November 1970 (Sweden)

Storyline:

While LANGUAGE OF LOVE illustrated general sex behaviour, MORE ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE shows minority group attitudes towards sex. As in the first film, there is an expert panel of scientist, discussing and explaining the different parts of the film. The famous

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