ABSTRACT
Through the interview process the issues of differing perceptions continually emerged. The classroom, along with all aspects of the public sphere, recognises and validates the male perception-more particularly that of the white middle class male. Furthermore, the responses given by the young men interviewed demonstrated a traditional expectation of their own role and that of females in sexual encounters. Demonstrably the differing perceptions of females and males regarding subject content are of major importance; of equal import are the different preferences for teaching process and classroom organisation. In both the questionnaire and the interviews respondents were asked to comment on the way they would like classes organised for sex education programmes. In response to the question on class organisation, 93 percent of questionnaire respondents indicated a preference for mixed sex groups; there was however a variation in the responses from females and males with 11 per cent of females wanting single sex groups compared with only 2 percent of males.
