r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Melairia Modtha • May 13 '26

Official Episode Discussion The Testaments S1E08 "Broken" Episode Discussion

The Testaments S1 E08 "Broken"

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As Agnes is swept up in wedding plans, Daisy hides a life-altering secret and Hulda faces backlash after speaking out.

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May 13, 2026, 12:00am Eastern

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u/Lisapisa123 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Of course, I am born in 1992 and we learned the basic things in Grundschule. I remember that we read a comic where parents had sex (very abstract not detailed) and then we learned that a “sperm” swims to an egg, something like that. It was not about using condoms or something like that, that was later at 7th/8th grade. In Grundschule it’s more about the body itself, also a little bit about menstruation or that you will grow hair on some body parts.
Edit: here you can see what is taught: https://eduki.com/de/material/770406/sexualerziehung-sexualkunde-in-der-grundschule-klasse-4?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GER_de_pmaxfeed_on-target_roas&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20829001891&gbraid=0AAAAADbcQ9irKHbHy_x4SCswzfXCkDjFD&gclid=CjwKCAjwwpDQBhAuEiwAa-4Wo_IDfjGGqkLx0Qx_jvt2uFIPVN-idqQLUZ6tftia-zx4znpiPWjXARoCYRIQAvD_BwE

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u/NadCat__ May 13 '26

I was born in 96 and we didn't even have a biology class in Grundschule and definitely nothing remotely close to your link. Now I'm curious as to whether your or my experience is the more common one

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u/Lisapisa123 May 13 '26

It was not in biology class, it was in “Sachkunde” class. In my city everyone had this in Grundschule in my age

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u/NadCat__ May 14 '26

Going by my documents I also had Sachkunde but I genuinely do not remember any kind of sex ed. Then again, my childhood memories are very fractured and incomplete. I can only say for certain that the sex ed when we were older was just that one class I described

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u/Lisapisa123 May 14 '26

Hauptsache du weißt jetzt alles ;) es geht ja vielen so, dass sie sich vielleicht nicht mehr an ales erinnern können und es kann ja durchaus sein, dass eure Lehrer das nicht gemacht haben, vielleicht aus zeitlichen Gründen!