Human reproduction is essentially the same as the rabbit…..

Year 9 Text, Pursuit of Science, Lugg & Rowney, CHESHIRE (1965)

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Yes! You should know about the birds and the bees ………………and, um, rabbits

Sex education was excruciatingly vague for most of us. Here is the total sum of information I received from Kyneton High School in rural Australia  in 1965. I turned 13 that year. That was it. Yes! We stormed  into the world armed with the knowledge of the sex lives of rabbits.

But, at least, we knew multiple births were rare.

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