Holland's teenagers practise safe sex. Less than 1% of them get pregnant every year compared to 6% in England. Much of that can be attributed to the Dutch culture of tolerance and pragmatism which allows open talk about sexuality between children and parents at home. Helping to keep the teenage pregnancy rate low are Holland's sex education teachers, who, because they are not bound by a National Curriculum, teach sex in very different ways. In Amsterdam's Lyceum, biology teacher Ruud Winkel discusses sexuality by getting his students to question each other from specially prepared cards. Like many teachers in Holland, he is direct and informal with his students but thinks the key to communicating with them, is to be yourself. But in a multicultural society not all children have the experience of being spoken with so explicitly, according to Yuri Ohlrichs at the Dutch Sexuality Centre.

Video Series: Sex Education
Release Date 2006