Call Americans prudes or Norwegians a bunch of sex-crazed maniacs, but either way the story seems the same: Kids in the land of opportunity don’t get nearly the chance to learn sexual anatomy like their Scandinavian peers do. Education is to blame.

And maybe, at least in Norway, Line Jansrud, a medical doctor and host of the kids’ Norwegian television program Newton, is to thank. Jansrud wants to help kids learn the ins and outs (literally) of puberty, sex, masturbation, and pregnancy. She isn’t afraid to use props to get her point across: a tomato for French kissing and a vacuum to recreate a hickey. At one point, she even uses a dildo to demonstrate how sex works on what looks to be a mannequin’s stolen lower half.

“Maybe slow at first, and faster later,” she encourages.

Jansrud’s program comes as part of a nationwide push for third-grade sex education, put on by NRK Super, the country’s largest children’s website, and the Norwegian public broadcast channel. “We tell them about the universe, about plants, about electricity. Facts, facts, facts in an entertaining way,” Newton executive producer Kirsti Moe told The Daily Beast. Part of that, evidently, includes up-close shots of penises and vaginas.

For all its fearless treatment of touchy sexual subjects, the program’s approach is solid. The best psychological research suggests grooming kids to understand where babies come from at an early age can help curb unhealthy attitudes toward sex and puberty. The more natural everything seems, the less freaked out they’ll be.

Of course, an 8-year-old is still an 8-year-old. The occasional Ewwww! is to be expected.

Sexual education from Norwegian State Channel...by puberteten