h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In doing some research for a project once, I discovered that in Sweden compulsory sex education in the schools begins in second grade, at the age of seven. Students are taught age-appropriate information through high school, but that is the age at which it is first explained to them, simply and factually, where babies come from. Not a bad idea, in my opinion.

In Germany - at least in our part - pregnancy is on the syllabus in 3rd grade. I think the actual details of how pregnancy occur are not actually covered until 6th grade.

Therefore I never had to tell my kids. My parents never told me anything. So before I waffle on about something I have never done, I'll shut up and see what everyone else has to say.

The National Curriculum in England requires even 5 - 7yr olds to be taught some basic facts that could be called sex education e.g. life cycles, human biology, relationships. The nitty gritty detail comes into the syllabus for 7 - 11 yr olds, but I guess schools differ as to how they interpret what is mandatory to teach & what they opt to include for more comprehensive coverage of the subject.

Are Swedes less inhibited about their bodies (thinking about saunas) so that talking about sex with young schoolchildren would be less of an issue than in the UK?