Forty - five percent of male university educatee believe that they could locate the nubis on a diagram of the female procreative system .

" The problem ? " author and Vice reporter Sophia Smith Galerwrote on Twitter . " I made the nubis up . "

Smith Galer commissioned a piece of research withUK polling firm Savanta , ahead of the launch of her paperbackLosing It : Dispelling the Sex myth That Rule Our Lives . As well as finding that manly university students are a piddling overconfident of their cognition of the distaff anatomy , the researcher found 31 percent of distaff students believed that they could situate the nubis too , suggesting sex education has been fairly lacking in the UK , where the inquiry took office .

" These figures paint a clear characterization of the shameful gaps in children and young people ’s knowledge about sexual practice , relationship and their own body , " MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion said in astatement .

The resume , not just limited to notional body parts , paints a grim picture of life at university . Thirty - three percent of distaff scholar , for example , think that their university is not doing enough to undertake misogynism on campus . Twenty - six percent of male bookman thought that their university was doing too much .

There was a disparity in when male and female student wanted their first partnered sexual experience , while 38 per centum of female scholarly person and 41 percent of male students said they felt pressurized into their first experience of incisive sex .

The inquiry , conducted on 1,600 UK university students aged 18 - 25 , incur that38 percentof uni students think their university has not filled in gaps in their sex education that they were not taught in schooltime . Perhaps it is not their own defect that they believe they can get hold the nubis .

" Children should be taught the fundamentals of relationship and sex education long before they reach university , particularly now that it is compulsory in all schools,“Champion continued . " However , teachers are not being provided with the grooming or resources necessary to effectively learn sexual activity education and it is putting young masses at peril . "

The full survey results arepublished on Savanta ’s internet site .