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Over four seasons, Sex Education has shone light on complicated topics, from queerness and coming out to substance use, to bullying to overcoming trauma. The show rarely digs thick into most of these issues, preferring instead to keep the majority of storylines feel-good—bad things carry out happen in the Sex Education universe, but hardship is almost always overcome.

In the show’s final season, which was released last week on Netflix, audiences got new insight into the life of Eric Effiong (Ncuti Gatwa). The teenager is facing turmoil—trying to reconcile his Christianity with his queerness and to find a territory in the house of God without hiding parts of himself the church would prefer he kept silent. Eric is attending classes at his church as he prepares to get baptized—but he routinely agonizes over whether this is the right selection, given that he’s forced to hide his queerness from his fellow congregants. It’s in this turmoil where Eric begins to have prophetic dreams and visions and wonders if God is trying to give him a sign.

This problem Eric faces isn’t at all new, and what he’s going through is something many gay Christians understand: the longing for a space in the church

Warning: spoilers for the first two seasons of “Sex Education.”

In recent years, a certain problematic trope has proliferated in popular media: the “closeted homophobic bully.” The widespread notion that people who exhibit homophobic behavior are secretly same-sex attracted themselves is not an entirely false one, but it doesn’t speak to the systemic and cultural thorniness of homophobia either. Pop culture’s perpetuation of the idea that repressed sexual desire is the main root of homophobia ignores other real factors, particularly the environment-based social ignorance that results in deeply entrenched misconceptions about masculinity and power.

The trope has manifested in multiple TV characters, usually teen jocks, in the past decade: Dave Karofsky on Fox's “Glee,” Monty de la Cruz on Netflix's “13 Reasons Why,” and Nate Jacobs on HBO's “Euphoria.” There are countless other examples of this trope that exist in TV, film, and literature—and the fact that it is such a prominent motif in pop customs is worth recognizing and critiquing.

These kinds of depictions invite the reductive plan that homophobic behavior always stems from homosexuality, that homophobes are just projecting their

The Series: Sex Education - 4^th and final season

Rating: 18

Genre: Coming of age drama

What you liked: I mind the tricky topics were generally well handled.

What you didn’t like: There were lots of new characters for the final season. I would have liked more screen-time and further development for the main characters.

Please note there is 18 rated language and inferences in the trailer

Thoughts for parents: Sex Education is understandably rated an Every episode regularly discusses sexual health connected problems, and there are a couple of scenes where it is transparent that the characters are having sex, and naked bodies are shown, with the exception of genitalia.

For a final series, it felt like too many themes and characters were thrown into the mix without proper development or even backstory. That said, these are all topics that young people will be facing; not one felt misplaced in a drama featuring teenagers. I think Sex Education does a good job at openly talking about these things, showing the difficulties and nuances of adolescence, and often coming to good conclusions. For example, when Roman and Abbi are having difficultie

Sex ed after repeal: MPs, advocacy groups want comprehensive, evidence-based info on LGBTQ issues

SINGAPORE – Sex knowledge in national schools has moved in and out of the spotlight over the years each hour there was concern that what is taught may not have kept up with the reality of students’ experiences.

The debate in Parliament on

repealing Section A of the Penal Code criminalising gay sex

in November saw several MPs raise the issue once more.

Nominated MP Tan Yia Swam urged the Ministry of Education (MOE) to review sex knowledge to ensure it is based on science and facts and to clearly state controversial opinions and trends.

She said this would be a manual for parents to operate in their own conversations at home with their growing children.

She also called on parents – who like her may acquire grown up without any knowledge of terms surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer (LGBTQ) issues – to take the initiative to find out.

She said: “Let us educate ourselves: What is hetero, homo, pan or asexual? What is transgender or cisgender? What is sexual orientation versus gender identity? Only then are we equipped to reference our children as they grow and explore.”