I used to teach EPR (Education for Personal Relationships) to mixed groups of teenagers in comprehensive schools and I reckon there is little that could shock me about people's sexuality. My pupils had some strange ideas about sex, some of them quite dangerous. A common belief was that a girl couldn't get pregnant the first time, or if she did not climax. I was teaching in a catholic school so I had to present my syllabus to the headmaster and the Chairman of the Governors, Father Egan. It was approved, as long as I added the rider to my information about contraception to the effect that their religion did not approve of any artificial means. We covered homosexuality, transvestism and sexually transmitted diseases. Several mothers came up to me at parents' nights and whispered that they had found the information in their child's folder very useful, as they had never been taught any facts at school or at home.
Cruelty shocks me and I hate violent films or TV programmes. I find sex scenes just boring, as they rarely add much to the telling of a story, but I am not offended by them.
