ABSTRACT
By encouraging young women and young men to express their opinions and develop priorities for themselves and the other sex and by not assuming that females and males have the same social reality, the researcher was able to expose both the similarities and the differences between the sexes. The overwhelming response of the females was that menstruation should be covered in Years 6 and 7. The girls were apparently more accepting of homosexuality than the boys. Both females and males ranked reproduction, pregnancy and birth as a high priority for themselves; being number 1 for three groups and number 2 for the fourth. Both females and males saw sexually transmitted diseases as being more important for the males. All groups agreed that abortion was more important for females than for males. The academic girls and the non-academic boys both ranked rape as high priority for females.
