Poland

In the Western point of view, sex education in Poland has never actually developed. At the time of the People's Republic of Poland, since 1973, it was one of the school subject, however, it was relatively poor and did not achieved any actual success. After 1989, it practically vanished from the school life - it is currently an exclusive subject (called wychowanie do życia w rodzinie/family life education rather than edukacja seksualna/sex education) in several schools and even their parents much give assents to the headmasters so that their children can attend. It is much due to the strong objection against sex education of the Catholic Church being the most influential institution in Poland.

It has, however, been changed and since September 2009 sex education will become an obligatore subject in the number of 14 per school year - unless parents do not want their children to be taught this. They are going to have to write special disagreements.