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((short description|1975 film))
((Infobox film
| name           = The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables
| image          = Trainables2.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = 
| director       = Max Brecher
| producer       = Max Brecher
| writer         = Medora Bass<br/>Thomas Blair<br/>Gail Hanson<br/>Winifred Kempton
| screenplay     = 
| story          = 
| based_on       = <!-- ((based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work)) -->
| narrator       = Richard Dix
| starring       = 
| music          = The Lakesprings
| cinematography = Thomas Blair
| editing        = Thomas Blair
| studio         = [[Hallmark Entertainment|Hallmark Films, Inc.]]
| distributor    = Hallmark Films and Recordings, Inc<br/><small>(1975 16mm film)</small><br/>Fantoma<br/><small>(2001 DVD release)</small>
| released       = ((Film date|1975))
| runtime        = 20 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
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'''''The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables''''' is a 1975 [[short film|short]] [[educational film]] hosted by Richard Dix.  It was intended to inform people about the need to educate the [[mentally disabled]] ("trainables" as they are referred to in the film) about [[sex]] and sexuality.  Reflecting the views held at the time, the film explains that "trainables" cannot learn in the same manner as those of normal intelligence, but must instead be trained through repetition.

==Background==
The 20 minute video places a high priority on teaching the intellectually disabled about sex so that they will not make inappropriate sexual comments, expose parts of their bodies, [[masturbate]] in public, be involved in unplanned pregnancies, or become victims of rape or molestation. It also notes that the goal of teachers should be to explain sexuality in a factual manner, and that views of sexual morality vary between families and should therefore be left for parents to teach.

The movie is used in "Timmy and the Sex Lesson", an episode of [[The Residents]]' video series ''[[Timmy (The Residents)|Timmy]]''.

==Cast==
The onscreen credits acknowledge that narration was provided by Richard Dix and that dramatic sequences were provided by William Block, M.D., Beverly Camp, Rick Fullerton, Peter Green, Michael Kowalski, Ellen Moats, George Murray, Aaron Orenstein, Christopher Reidy, Murray Zeligman, and members and staff of the Ronald Bruce Nippon Assoc., and [[Planned Parenthood]] of [[Southeastern Pennsylvania]].<ref name="google video">((cite AV media | url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987243478639579087# | title=The ABC's of Sex education for trainables | location=[[Sonar Entertainment|Hallmark Films, Inc.]] credited as studio within the opening 18 seconds, and the onscreen credits role after 19 minutes | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628182015/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987243478639579087 | archivedate=2011-06-28 ))</ref>

== Scenes from the movie ==

*The opening sequence is of a girl (presumably a mentally disabled person) walking down the street. She is approached by a man in a car who leans out of his window and plays with her hair. She then gets in the back seat of his car and rides away.
*A group of teachers are in a workshop together. The instructor encourages the teachers to yell out different [[slang]] terms for the penis while she writes them on a chalkboard. This is intended to make the teachers more comfortable with the words so that they will not be embarrassed to teach mentally disabled children about sex.
*A man sits with a mentally disabled young man and explains to him about how penises become erect using several drawings.
*A man comes into a boy's bedroom, asking him why he has not yet left his bed. The boy replies: "I'm all wet and sticky!". The man proceeds to explain to the boy what a [[wet dream]] is and says he will help him clean up.
*A woman comes into her son's bedroom unannounced and discovers him masturbating. She then explains to him that it is good that he is doing it in private, that it feels good, and that someday she and he will have to talk about it and then leaves the room.

==Reception==
In 2001, ''[[DVD Talk]]'' reviewed the Fantoma Films "Educational Archives" series, ''Sex & Drugs'', and noted ''The ABCs of Sex Education for Trainables'' as among those included, writing the film had the "impact of ''[[Freaks (1932 film)|Freaks]]''" and that it was intended to "guide teachers in mental institutions, who must try to train (not teach) those patients considered 'trainable', to know enough about their bodies and sex to neither be anti-social nor victimized in public". They commented upon the film addressing the issues directly by its showing "some very dedicated teachers taking on a really tough job".<ref name="dvdtalk1">((cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s358educate.html|title=Sex and Drugs breakdown- The ABC of Sex-Ed for Trainables|accessdate=February 28, 2011|author=Glenn Erickson|date=November 13, 2001|work=[[DVD Talk]]))</ref>  When they reviewed the [[DVD]] compilation "Educational Archives" ''School Locker'' in 2006, they made note that collections of educational films from Fantoma "included the best of the best in educational films", and that it was "hard to top marvels like ''The ABCs of Sex Education for Trainables''", and that while this later compilation was not without merit, "it pales in comparison with the earlier releases".<ref name="dvdtalk2">((cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/22988/educational-archives-school-locker/|title=Educational Archives - School Locker|accessdate=February 28, 2011|author=Francis Rizzo III|date=August 1, 2006|work=[[DVD Talk]]))</ref>

''[[DVD Verdict]]'' wrote that the film was "the flip side of all those sex education films directed at children", in how the "well-meaning short teaches teachers how to handle sex education for 'retardates,' or the developmentally disabled". They noted that the film tended to be more graphic when compared to the other films included on the "Educational Archives" series, ''Sex & Drugs'', and though it tried "very hard to take its subject seriously[, n]evertheless, it comes across as very surreal".<ref name="dvdverdict">((cite web|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/sexanddrugs.php|title=review: Sex And Drugs (Educational Archives Volume I) |accessdate=February 28, 2011|author=Mike Pinsky|date=April 4, 2002|work=[[DVD Verdict]]|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710160729/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/sexanddrugs.php|archivedate=July 10, 2011))</ref>

''Digitally Obsessed'' wrote that the ''ABC of Sex Education for Trainables'' was "produced by Planned Parenthood to train teachers of developmentally-challenged young adults (called 'trainables' here) about their bodies, reproduction, and the place of sexual relations in society". They noted that the film had a few scenes considered (in 2001) as humorous, but that the film "actually does the best job of dealing with the issues of sex in context with society," in how it dealt with such issues as anatomy, aspects of normal development and sexual maturity, the appropriateness of public masturbation, and being aware of exploitation, with the subjects "handled with tact and matter of factness". They concluded that stylistic problems aside, the film was "quite an interesting piece on what would present a real challenge to those caring for developmentally-challenged individuals, and their responsibilities as sexual beings", and that of the films making up the compilation, it was "the most educational, and least condescending sex education film of the lot."<ref name="digitallyobsessed">((cite web|url=http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=1905|title=review: The Educational Archives: Volume 1—Sex & Drugs|accessdate=February 28, 2011|author=Jeff Ulmer|date=November 22, 2001|work=Digitally Obsessed))</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1975]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110519184203/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987243478639579087&q=sex+ed+for+trainables "The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables"] at [[Google Video]] 
*((IMDb title|id=0209871|title=The ABC's of Sex Education for Trainable Persons))
*((YouTube|B3kngIqC1wg|The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables (1975)))

;Modern resources
*Coren, C. [http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3518703.html "Teenagers with Mental Disability Lack Reproductive Education and Knowledge; Still, Many Have Had Sex"], ''Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health'', July/August 2003. ((doi|10.1363/3518703))

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