The haircuts are funny. The music is cheesy. The English narration is stilted. But the core message—that puberty is a normal, manageable, and even beautiful process—remains as radical and necessary in 2026 as it was in 1991.
From a modern perspective, the visual style of Sexuele Voorlichting is striking and often provocative. The film does not shy away from full-frontal nudity. In an era preceding the ubiquity of the internet, visual media was one of the few ways adolescents could see realistic representations of naked bodies outside of art or pornography. The film utilizes a combination of live-action footage of nude models and animated diagrams to illustrate internal processes. The haircuts are funny