Never, it was done in school so I didn't need to ask!
Never, it was done in school so I didn't need to ask!
I don't even remember if my parents told me or not.
Thankfully my parents never gave me 'the talk'. I think it just got to a stage where they presumed I knew and no-one has ever mentionned it! I was nervous enough telling them I'm pregnant as they would know I'd had sex!! *sacre bleu*.
I work in an area that has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe and therefore it is compulsory for us to start teaching sex ed in Year 1 (age 5-6). It's nothing too much, we just have to teach the children about 'real' names of our reproductive organs. Proves very entertaining when you have to ask 5 and 6 year olds what they call their "bits". To try and keep a straight face as a teacher is the hardest thing!
One parent came in to see me one day after giving her daughter a bath with her baby brother the day before and was a bit taken aback to hear her daughter say "look mummy, he's got a penis and I have a vagina!" *cringe*. All the parents had been warned and thankfully the mother found it quite amusing!
I have no idea what age is good. I started having sex ed classes in 4th grade. To me that seems a bit early since it was a good 3 or 4 years before I started paying much attention to girls.
I never really had a talk with my parents. My mom tried once but I told her I'd already had sex ed 5 times. Seriously why did I need sex ed every year from 4thgrade until 10th grade!? And then they wonder why kids start trout so early.
Never got the talk myself, which to be honest I kind of miss since it would've been cute embarassing experience haha. I never needed it tho, I was virgin since 18 and by then I long time knew what and how to do things so...
But I personally plan to give my future kids the talk at around 11 yo. I feel that by then kids are slowly starting to notice their sexuality and are usually mature enough to understand the important things.
I was given books.
By my sister.
The only talk I ever got happened when I was like 14 & My dad basically like, "I'll kick your ass if I find out you're doing anything."
Technical stuff like menstrual cycles I learned about in school. Yes, they taught the boys' health class about menstrual cycles in my school.Originally Posted by Psychotic
I learned about female anatomy & stuff from my grandfather's nudie mags.
Do most kids generally get interested in sex (from more than a simple curiosity standpoint) pre-high school? Genuine question. I thought the entire concept was utterly disgusting until I was about 16. Maybe I was just odd.
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My school asked for parent volunteers for the initial sex ed classes in 5th grade. My mom volunteered. It was all very technical like periods and stuff and basic sex ed. She asked me after what I thought and I just saw it as a technical learning thing. There was no talk as she was just there for the education thing.
What if they modded an Age of Empires tutorial for sex education?
I can't remember how I learned about all that stuff. Not very effectively, as I remember sitting in middle school when I was 10/11 watching a sex-ed video in class. There was an illustration of a naked couple and the narrator said: "...and the couple hold each other intimately, and the man's penis gently slips inside the woman's vagina - completing the act of sexual intercourse."
When you're ten years old and that's the first information you're getting - there's a problem. And I grew up in a nice liberal part of the south of England, not somewhere zealously ultra-conservative. I know for a lot of people the adventure of discovery is a thrilling rite of passage. But then you get others who grow up not knowing what goes where and learning it all from internet porn.
When I have kids, if I'm lucky enough to have the Stork bring me some, they'll be sat down and getting the talk at the first sign of curiosity. I'll want them to grow up with knowledge and without shame. Poor sex education (and the negative ramifications of that such as high rates of unwanted pregnancies) is 100% the result of prudish adults who took that bit in Genesis about fig leaves a bit too literally.
My friends all lost their virginity by age 13. 1 girl was 11.
I wasn't interested/didnt care cuz I was an ugly duckling back then and no guys were interested in me anyway.
I wish I'd gotten the talk but my mom and I were barely on speaking terms most of my life. I lost my virginity at 14 to a guy much older than me who pressured me in to it and said really mean things and threatened to leave me if I didn't do it. I wish I'd had a more open relationship with my mother about that stuff
I do plan to have the talk with Michael, not just for education purposes but to establish an open line of communication. I don't expect him to want to come to me about sex, but I want him to be able to if he needs protection or is worried he might have an STD or any number of things that can come up. I'd rather he know he can talk to me even if its uncomfortable
Never. Learned everything I needed to from accidentally discovering the weird young adult body-changing aisle at Barnes & Noble when I was eleven, which I was extremely embarrassed about and did my best to not get caught visiting.
I was interested in Girls but not sex. I remember my friend telling me to just have sex with some ugly girl because it felt good snd I was like "um no"
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