In Chapter One of UFOs in the Classroom, I discuss how educational attitudes towards controversial subjects can change over time.

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Johnny Condom provides a personal example. Initially controversial when introduced as a sexual-health education resource in the 1990s, the project was revisited some twenty-five years later as part of Channel 4's exploration of the history of sex education.

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The extract below provides an opportunity to consider how dramatically the educational and cultural context surrounding the same resource had changed.