Channel 4 are at it again, with their bold but slightly risque programming. This time they’re teaching kids how to go at it – but, y’know, respectfully and not at all like the porn they’re apparently all watching.

Belgian sexologist (yes, that’s a job apparently) Goedele Liekens has been parachuted into a school in Accrington to try to impart a more continental attitude to sex on English school kids.

But what kind of woman is Goedele? Well firstly she’s trying to introduce a sex education GCSE into schools. But she’s a bit out there for British teachers it seems – as she discovered when introducing her props in the staffroom before class.

And she’s not just sending kids home with textbooks to read…

Lesson 1: Pornography

First Goedele got some views from the boys on the kind of porn they’re watching.

Then she showed them a wall-sized collage of vaginas in various states of hairiness. The boys were asked to pick the one they liked most.

Unsurprisingly (for a generation raised on internet porn) the hairless ones were popular – and Goedele describing them as “grown-up children” didn’t deter the lads.

What the boys didn’t know was that a hairless vagina required daily shaving – and that tended to bring on a nasty rash. So they got some homework…

There was also some confusion between “a Brazilian” and an actual Brazilian woman.

And as revolutionary and daring as this class was, photos of private parts were of course not encouraged.

Lesson 2: Mutual sexual pleasure

Getting the kids in (mixed gender) groups to agree on the perfect sexual encounter was very enlightening.

There were cliches…

And certainly a few common pornography tropes…

Plus this rather concerning view about the aftermath of a blowjob (from the lads, of course).

At the end of it all, nominated members of each group stood up and read out the sexual encounter their committee had imagined. And they actually did it without a hint of embarrassment.

Lesson 3: Consent

And Goedele was keen to talk about “consent” beyond just consent to have sex in the first place. As with much of this programme, conversation quickly landed on one topic…

Goedele’s instinct to go deeper in the consent issue proved very necessary, with the lads thinking agreeing to have sex opened up endless opportunities.

Because consent – of all kinds – is very, very important.

Either way the kids thought Goedele was a super cool teacher.

Lesson 4: Education at home

Here’s where the viewers started to really cringe, as one kid was forced to take the lesson out of the classroom and into a conversation with his mum.

Goedele was there too to make sure no topics were ducked.

A “fun” word game ensued. But the words involved in this game included “sucked off” (from the young gentleman) and “fanny lick” (from his mum).

The possibility of this parental frankness happening to them was just far too much for some viewers.

Lesson 5: The vagina

These classes were done in single sex classrooms. Goedele reckons teaching girls about their vaginas empowers them. But she was genuinely shocked by how little they actually knew…

It all became painfully apparent when the girls were asked to draw their private parts (which they’d all presumably lived with for 15 years or so).

No one seemed to know where (or often what) the clitoris was.

And identifying the pee-hole (urethra) proved equally impossible.

The other teachers at the school (from sex ed to science) admitted the clitoris does not feature very heavily on the syllabus.

But Goedele insisted she wouldn’t be having this problem in sexually liberated Belgium.

So for homework the girls were given a hand mirror – and encouraged to even go a little further. (Though the sex toys threatened by Goedele in the staffroom earlier never materialised.)

Some viewer knew exactly why this kind of thing wasn’t already being done in schools up and down the country.

The exam

Finally the kids were given a genuine exam (in genuine exam conditions) and they all actually did very well.

Although the obvious playground jokes ensued…

Verdict

So should sex ed in British schools be more Belgian? Well viewers on Twitter generally though yes.

Although people still warned that we needn’t take after Belgium in all areas.