SEX EDUCATION IN FRANCE aka Dildos at Gare de Melun

So, it's AIDS-Awareness Day. Now, I'm all for this. Kids need to learn to be comfortable with condoms and that requires sex ed and that prevents AIDS. Now I agree that kids need to practice not because it's required but because it helps them feel comfortable and familiar with safe sex. This why in America, we have this sixth grade class called Sex Ed aka "Family Awareness" as Republicans like to refer to it in good ol' Caulifoonia (arnold voice). But in France, they don't have sex ed in the high school where I teach. They have AIDS Awareness week during which we have tray covers at lunch time that have pictures of happy pink condoms holding hands in a circle with the globe in the middle. but no sex ed.
so what's the solution:

I walk into the train station in the desolate city called Melun (can't wait to return to Paris) and what do I see: a booth / table with a row of dildos: pink dildo, yellow dildo, green dildo, you name it, in France we love diversity in dildos. then a pack of condoms (also neon green and orange and yellow and pink colored may I add, I guess the French really like having colorful sex). Anyways, everyone was embarassed except some immature twleve year olds smiling at the very notion of the S word and they were having a blast trying on the condoms. Meanwhile, there was a tape playing of an Arab family with the mother trying to overcome her fears regarding talking about sex, which is also important but I think some of the Arabs there were slightly offended by the video from the looks I saw on their face.

Point made: in perhaps one of the most sexually charged countries in Europe where there is nightly softcore porn on TV, there is no normal Sex Ed in the classroom and French kids learn safe sex only if they're lucky enough to walk into a train station on AIDS awareness day and play with a rainbow of dildos and condoms.

How amusing...

DISCLAIMER: My colleague Emilie wants everyone to know that French kids do take sex-ed in ninth grade. a bit late but better then nothing in my opinion.