Like many other bored people, I sometimes spend hours searching and watching all different kind of videos from YouTube. Nowadays I probably watch those vids more than I watch television.
And I'm not alone, many of my friends has this new hobby.

While ago I talked about this with a friend. We were both amazed how, more often than not, we actually find the weirdest, silliest, most unlikely vids there - it's almost like everything really is uploaded in YouTube.

There's an international short film festival every spring in my hometown (Tampere Film Festival). Every year there's usually collections of different kind of old short films - those are the shows I usually go see. I'm not that big filmfreak, but I rather enjoy the unintentional comedy value those films offer aswell as I love to "travel in time". Those films (fiction or education) tells so much so many ways of that era they were made in.

Several years ago me and the friend mentioned above went to see one those shows. A collector (possibly from USA) had brought some samples from his collection - all somehow related to sex.
We saw short films from early 1900's till 1970's including for example really old, really dirty flicks (showed in brothels for customers while they were waiting), movie trailers and sex education films from different decades.
We both agreed already back then that the most bizarre film of all was a sex education film from 1970's(?), where a whole family (mum, dad and big sister) teaches to a little girl with Down syndrome (maybe 10yrs old) what are periods and how to use sanitary pads.

I kid you not.

Experience was gruesome yet hilarious.
I don't laugh at disabled people, we can't really help the way we are born to this world and I'd like to think that we all are just as special and important despite they way we look. There's nothing comical about that little girl featured in that film. But everything else about that film... it's just... hilarious.

I got weird sense of humor and I'm not very PC in general. And it was like 4am in the morning. So I remember laughing hysterically. The questions rose the next day.
Only reasonable explanation for such film was obviously that it was aimed to disabled people. Hence the leading lady had to be someone to relate to.
All in all it was unforgettable experience.

We joked with my friend wouldn't it be kinda funny (ha ha and weird) if THAT film was uploaded in youtube.
As you might guess, the reason why I'm writing this is that I actually found it.
And while I was searching, I found loads of other such sex ed, hygiene, propaganda short films.

It's not just the (unintentional) comedy they offer that intrigues me. I find it quite interesting to see how the "message" in those films have changed - how the moral values and society has changed.
Tone changes from puritan preaching, warning and forbidding to the casual "hey it's perfectly normal to touch yourself"...

So I've been watching and laughing. And searching more info about those films if possible.
What started as search of certain film from YouTube, turned into a fascinating journey into past decades.

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I've collected the links and added sometimes some reviews or related info and will continue doing so.
Obviously I have no copyrights whatsoever to anything, nor can't really help if some of those links die.

I hope you will have as much fun reading/watching as I have had (and still do) searching and finding!