Aaah, childhood memories...

Ha'aretz reports on an Arab website which has become the first in the Arab world to openly offer sex advice and education.
Interesting article. But what caught my eye were the following paragraphs, which I can just imagine the Ha'aretz reporter writing with shock and disdain:

"Ostensibly, at least in Egypt, high school students can learn about the human anatomy and sexual functioning. Nevertheless, these are essentially biology courses called "reproductive health." In these classes, there is no discussion of sexuality, but the students are required to read background material.
"In girls' schools, it was decided to glue together the pages depicting the male and female sex organs to avoid the appearance of pornographic literature."

Funny that. I remember the exact same thing happening in my Jewish high school in London, when we were supposed to be studying the reproductive system for our GCSEs (better known to most people outside the UK as O-levels).
In our school, they were for some reason at first only concerned with the boys, and initially only cut out the offending pictures of the female reproductive system.
Before they got very far with this little project, someone pointed out that the holes in the page were now actually framing pictures of the male genitalia -- which would be too much for the girls.
So they promptly glued all the pages together -- just like in Egypt...
I wonder, though, that the Egyptian school girls haven't yet discovered what the Hasmonean students quickly did -- that pages that are glued together can be separated. It wasn't long before the teachers recalled the books and actually cut the pages out.
The moral of the story? They must use better glue in the Middle East...