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Episode 7

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Episode 7 is the seventh episode of the second season of Sex Education. It is the fifteenth episode of the series overall.

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Welcome to the morning after. “Sex kid” has made a huge mess -- and just can’t stop barfing. Chaos comes to class, and in detention, the girls bond.

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SPOILERS AHEAD

Things begin in the aftermath of Otis’ party and the related fallout, with most of Otis’ attention focused on the fact that the girl in his bed turns out to be Ruby, who is definitely sure that the two of them had sex the night before — but not sure that they properly used protection. After Ruby leaves, Jean furiously confronts Otis, despite his insistence that things got out of control by accident. Jean is disappointed in Otis' lack of responsibility and the house being a wreck.

After school, Ruby and Otis set out on a quest to get her the morning-after pill, which leads to Otis learning that while Ruby might play the dramatic queen bee, her life isn’t as simple as we might assume. For one thing, her father has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It’s how she explains her choice to hook up with Otis: “When I’m sad, I make out with nerdy boys,” she tells him. “It was 100% intentional.” But there’s something pure about the way how one secret ends up helping the two of them connect; Ruby and Otis might not be a love story, but they end the episode as friends.

At Moordale Secondary, Otis, who is still hungover, asks Eric about last night and he gives all the details to Otis. He then admits his virginity is gone but a lot of kids heard about him and Ruby sleeping together. The rest of the school is in turmoil thanks to the halls getting papered with copies of Jean’s notes from her sex therapy sessions with both students and staff — something Headmaster Groff did deliberately to get Jean ousted from her position at the school, and he pretends to discover this. He manages to find out about Olivia and Malek Amir's relationship and brings the parents in as well as Jean. During the meeting, he tells the parents and Jean about Malek discussing fetishes with Jean (Jean says those notes are private). Malek also reveals he is only 15, which means Olivia could be arrested for statutory rape. Her parents also learn Malek is Iranian, not Indian. While Malek's parents won't be pressing charges, they ask Jean why she gave out sex advice at all. Jean states in full honesty that she only answered a question about fetishes, and she never told the kids to have sex. Groff states she should not be discussing fetishes with 15-year-olds at all. She tries to explain her report but Groff bans her and her report from campus. As the parents leave, Malek tells Jean she gave better advice than the sex kid; he then reveals it was Otis which surprises Jean.

When Miss Sands’ interest in dirty talk leads to a mysterious culprit going around the school scrawling graffiti about her in the girls’ locker room, she drags six potential suspects (or rather witnesses) into detention, and decides to make them complete an impossible task: define what unites them all as females of the human species.

Thus, Maeve, Ola, Lily, Viv, Olivia, and Aimee all find themselves trying to figure out their common bond, which proves impossible until they basically realize that they’ve all been terrorized by men at one point in their lives. Aimee opens the initial floodgates here during a fight between Ola and Maeve, and after several episodes of watching her suppress her recent experience, it’s a powerful thing to see her finally talk about what happened and why it still haunts her.

Turns out that all six young women have had some sort of horrific experience due to an abusive man: Olivia was groped by a group of boys, Maeve was cat called for her "revealing" shorts, Viv was flashed by a man in the swimming pool as a kid (she was banned from going there again, which she loved to do), Lily has seen her fair share of dick picks and Ola was chased home by a man. So, when Miss Sands returns to detention, they’re able to tell her what they have in common: “Other than nonconsensual penises, not much.”

Ola invites the other girls to join her at Adam’s special smashing space, and they go to town in an abandoned car. Aimee in particular gets a real chance to express her inner rage.

Jean, having learned about Otis’ sex clinic business from Malek, confronts her son, and when he denies it, she says “you look just like your father when you lie.” Also, thanks to a spying Isaac, Maeve learns that her mother has been fired from her alleged office job, and has to deliver an ultimatum: if Erin lies to her again, she’s gone.

Lily decides abruptly that she is interested in Ola after all, and the two of them kiss. The next morning, when Aimee tentatively makes her way to the bus stop, the other five girls are waiting for her. “It’s just a stupid bus,” Maeve tells her, and surrounded by her squad, Aimee finally gets back on board.

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