Hello there readers, and welcome back to Ask a North Korean — the feature where you ask our defector writers your questions about real life in the DPRK.

Today’s question is about how sex education is different in North and South Korea. Tae-il Shim, who lived in conservative North Korea for most of his life and now resides in the relatively-open South, compares and contrasts what is taught in the two countries about relations between men and women.

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