Let’s talk about sex

I was browsing my elder son’s science textbook the other day, and rude words kept jumping out at me.

Penis! Scrotum! Copulation!

It read like a perv’s handbook. The fact is that science is the only school subject where you can draw diagrams of willies and not end up in detention.

And yet it seems that students are dropping science in favour of “creative” subjects. Well, that doesn’t sound like fun to me. You’ll have to be very creative to justify the kind of dirty language scientists use every day in the classroom.

I say, if you want to talk about sex, choose science, not media studies.