Sexuele Voorlichting - Puberty Sexual Education For Boys And Girls -1991- English.46 -

Bram felt a hot flush crawl up his neck. He stared at the dust motes dancing in the projector beam, anywhere but the screen. Then the drawings became photographs. A boy’s face, then a girl’s, their features softening into young adulthood. A boy’s shoulder broadening. A girl’s hip curving.

The narrator spoke of menstruation. Of wet dreams. Of the word ovulation , which Bram had heard before only as a whisper in the schoolyard, a weapon to throw and run from. But here it was, clinical and gentle, as ordinary as a recipe on television. Bram felt a hot flush crawl up his neck

Then Mrs. Visser turned on the overhead lights, harsh and fluorescent. “Questions?” she asked. A boy’s face, then a girl’s, their features

“Is it… does it hurt?” He meant growing. He meant changing. He meant everything. The narrator spoke of menstruation