Sex, Dating and Self-Confidence [Tuesday, Period 2]

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"Good morning, darlings," Irene greeted the class cheerfully, perched as usual on the edge of her desk. There was, however, a TV and a DVD player in the room today, which was maybe a clue as to what sort of a day it was going to be.

"Today, I had planned for us to talk about fetishes, but I think that's going to be rolled into safety next week." So sorry that you guys have to wait a whole week for that incredibly uncomfortable talk!



"Instead, we're going to watch a movie," she told them, in case the dimmer ones hadn't figured that bit out yet. "But first!" She grabbed her question box, next to the bowl of condoms like usual, but unlike usual, Irene actually drew a slip of paper out of the box and unfolded it. "We have a question to answer, boys and girls."

She cleared her throat, then crisply read out, "During last weekend when I didn't remember who I was, I made out with one person and hooked up with another all thanks to the same party. Can I get extra credit for being so good with the flirting and self-confidence thing even when I have amnesia?"

Yep. The question box was, as promised, totally anonymous. No idea who could have possibly written that, nope.

Irene dropped the paper down into her lap, and tilted her head at the class. "What an excellent question. Now, I would be absolutely delighted to grant this fantastically confident young man or woman," and she knew perfectly well who it was, "extra credit, but tragically, by its very nature, our question box here is strictly anonymous, so any granting of extra credit would be wholly impossible, since I don't know who wrote this."

She shrugged, very sadly. "So I guess whoever this is will just have to be proud of him or herself without extra credit. But good job! And sorry about the amnesia."

With that taken care of, Irene popped up off her desk to press a button on the DVD player. "This film really plays more into the self-confidence portion of our class later on, but I do hope that you'll their depiction of sex ed."

She paused, glancing up, and added, "Or at least realize how much worse it could be than having to deal with me trying to explain why dental dams are useful, anyway. In any case, try to stay awake, and pay attention to the social interaction in the film -- what goes wrong, and why, and what lessons can we draw from it? If you've seen it before, do try not to spoil any of it, and if you must quote along, do so quietly."

She'd seen this before, yes. She knew how deeply quotable it was.

Comments

Sign in [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

Like it's a movie day!

Re: Sign in [09/15]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry Ween

Re: Sign in [09/15]

[not-called-icky.livejournal.com]

Ichabod Crane

Re: Sign in [09/15]

[ultimatehottie.livejournal.com]

Johnny Storm

Listen to the lecture [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

Which isn't really up to her usual lecture-y goodness, mostly by virtue of picking on our TOTALLY ANONYMOUS QUESTION-ASKER and justifying why we're watching the best movie ever made.

Re: Listen to the lecture [09/15]

[notamascot]

Next week Kaylin was totally going to be out sick. She could feel it coming on now!

Watch the movie [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

It is a masterpiece.

And also, don't touch anything. You will get pregnant.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry sat and watched the movie but his brain was elsewhere, constantly distracted.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[not-called-icky.livejournal.com]

Ichabod watched the movie, which showed the odd ways in which modern culture was quite different and yet that human beings were still very similar. Even he got the sex ed class joke.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[ultimatehottie.livejournal.com]

Okay, sure, pretty girls and clever writing or whatever. But this was REALLY not what Johnny expected from a movie day in this class.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[not_a_moonie]

ALana had seen this movie before, but she really liked it. It made her glad Fandom was such a weird high school. Normal Earth high schools seemed to be much, much more annoying.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[ultimatehottie.livejournal.com]

Hey, Alana, have a note.

You were right. We can talk during class or whatever.

Doing anything after this period?

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[not_a_moonie]

Told you! And nothing special, Alana scribbled back, after giving him a sly sidelong look. Did you have something in mind?

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[spin_kick_snap]

"...Guys don't really like it when girls pretend to be dumb, right?" Kathy mumbled, side-eyeing that part of the movie so hard.

If so, no wonder she'd never had a boyfriend. And never would because jeeze.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

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Eleanor was only half paying attention to the movie. She was tired, and she didn't want to think about sexual activity or education today. Bad enough Joker would be here, which would make it harder to continue avoiding him.

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Especially since he made sure to get the seat next to her.

"Are you avoiding me?" he whispered, after the movie had started. "Because I really don't want to think that you're avoiding me. Are you holding up okay?"

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," Eleanor lied, not taking her eyes off the screen. "Couldn't be better. How's your hand?"

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[notamascot]

This was... a bit confusing. Did the girl think she was a Leontine at times?

The title was certainly accurate.

Didn't they have anything better to do with their time?

Re: Watch the movie [09/15]

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker didn't really have it in him to watch the movie, however great it might be. Nasty high school drama was too exhausting to even think about, let alone watch.

Talk to Irene [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

She'll be over here, shaking her head every time that girl pretends to be bad at math for boy-attention. Come on, Linds. Brainy's the new sexy.

Re: Talk to Irene [09/15]

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't help to use the question box. She'd read the question in class and it would be bloody obvious who wrote it.

Instead, Eleanor lingered at the end of class.

"Have you ever ..." she started, before realizing what a violative, intrusive question that was. "That is, do you think it's possible, for other people -- I mean, not you personally, it's ..."

She was so bloody bad at this.

"Can people be injured during -- sexual activity?"

No, Eleanor. You and Joker are the first two in the history of the human species to pull it off.

Re: Talk to Irene [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

Irene raised a brow, because wasn't that a loaded question.

She suspected, though, that Eleanor meant an accidental sort of pain, rather than the sort she specialized in, and that was worrisome. She didn't seem worse for wear, physically, but Irene was trying not to be too obvious with her once-over.

"Of course," she said simply, looking concerned. "It's a very physical activity that requires quite a lot of coordination from both parties. Are you -- is everything all right, Eleanor?"

OOC [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

This lazy class is brought to you by forgot-to-write-this-at-home-so-we're-not-doing-fetishes-today-ness, and also a fairly nasty cough that I just want to go away. :(

Fall's just starting, come on. I can't get sick already.

Re: OOC [09/15]

[stacyexperiment]

Btw, apparently my coworker's brother's junior high teacher actually published a book full of all the anonymous questions kids asked in his sex ed class.

Re: OOC [09/15]

[begmetwice.livejournal.com]

...I think I kinda hate that. Like, wow, can you imagine being one of the kids who put their trust in the box and then LOL WHOOPS NOW IT'S PUBLISHED.