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Context matters. In many places, 1991 sits at an inflection point. The cold war’s ideological certainties had cracked, global cultural flows accelerated, and mainstream conversations about sexuality were being remade by new public-health urgencies, feminist critiques, and the rising visibility of LGBTQ lives and HIV/AIDS. “Sexuele voorlichting” — sexual education in Dutch — evokes a European setting where sex ed has long been negotiated between schools, families, churches, and public health authorities. The word carries the bureaucratic weight of curricula and the intimate awkwardness of a parent on a sofa, trying to find the right words.