The Sex Ed Teacher Dilemma

A few months ago, the Singapore government announced that it was going to revamp the sex education course that's currently being taught in class. Instead of being solely focused on how sex works and the diseases caused by sex, it'll focus more on lessons teaching young kids to abstain from it until after marriage.

A thought came over me after hearing about that announcements in the news. When it comes to teaching sex education, which teacher would be more effective in teaching the topic to teenage boys and girls: a hot guy, a hot girl, an ugly guy, or an ugly girl?

I had short conversations with my girl friends and my guy friends regarding the topic. I was quite surprised with the answers they gave me. Let's start with the men.

Men's Answer: "I will learn a lot more about sex education and actually remember it if my teacher was a hot girl."

I actually thought that a hot guy will be able to teach sex education very effectively. It's because if the hot guy teacher is hot and cool looking, the guys will have respect for him and actually follow in his footsteps. While the guys agreed with this point, having a hot girl teacher is still better, or at least they claim to be.

1. It's because by having a hot girl teacher, guys pay more attention in general. I thought it would actually be detrimental to sex education because guys might just lust for her, but it appears not to be the case. The fact that the boys are only teenagers and the teacher is older makes them not lust for her like men of the teacher's age would probably do (or at least at less frequency). There's a respect factor involved.

2. In fact, for guys, it not only involves sex education, but a hot girl teacher is actually beneficial for guys in any subject, because of the fact that the hot girl teacher commands more attention.

So for young teenage boys, sex education lessons can be taught more effectively if the teacher was a hot girl (but probably not so much if she wears an outfit like the one in the picture above. :D)

However, at the end of the day, this still needs to be confirmed through actual observation. Claimed responses usually come from what guys want, and not really their answer to the question.

Women's Answer: "I will learn a lot more about sex education and actually remember it if my teacher was a hot girl."

For women, surprise surprise! They would also like a hot girl to be their sex education teacher. Although this is surprising, the reasons they give are more straight cut and more logical than the men's responses.

1. They will only fantasize about the hot guy if ever he becomes their sex education teacher, so the lessons won't really mean anything to them if the guy's too hot.

2. It'll serve as a role model for girls to have a hot girl teacher, a person who can have any guy she wants, preach about control, abstinence, and correct sexual values.

So for girls, and I believe in this case, their response to this question is more believable. The claimed behavior would most likely match the actually effectiveness of driving sex education lessons deep into the students' consciousness.


So at the end of the day, both genders have the same preference for a sex education teacher. I asked them to rank the types of teachers starting with the one they prefer the most, and this is what both groups told me...

Hot Girl --> Hot Guy --> Ugly Guy = Ugly Girl (No order of preference for the last 2)

So there you go. A tip to all governments or schools who want to prove their education systems. If you want to increase lesson effectiveness, ONE FACTOR (I'm not saying this is the ONLY ONE) that can affect this postively is to hire hot girls as teachers. Sad as it may seem, but we still live in a society that factors a lot of things based on appearance (though we all deny it).

layman