(Dutch for "Sexual Education") is a 1991 Belgian documentary directed by Ronald Deronge. Often circulated under English titles such as Puberty: Sexual Education for Boys and Girls , the film presents itself as a pedagogical tool designed to explain human anatomy, puberty, and sexual development to a young audience. Film Overview
The film’s narrative structure is famously minimalist: a calm, maternal narrator guides viewers through animated segments, live-action reenactments, and close-up shots of anatomical models. Romance enters only as a prelude to biology. Before explaining menstruation or ejaculation, the narrator emphasizes “gevoelens” (feelings). A boy and girl sit on a park bench, hands hesitantly touching. The voiceover explains: “When you like someone very much, your body reacts.” In this framing, romantic attraction is reduced to a physiological warning system—heart rate increases, palms sweat—not unlike the body’s response to fear. Romance is not portrayed as joy, discovery, or poetry, but as the emotional kindling for reproductive mechanics. sexuele voorlichting 1991 belgiummp4golkes new