How did you learn about the birds and the bees?

[NinjaOnXTC]

Wilbur Smith when I was 10, and everything else I learnt though the quagmire that is the world wide web.

 

[Floggo]

Porn, how else?

 

[eggy32]

My friend's cousin told us when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Never had the talk.

 

[lokiduck]

they told me in Elementary how it was okay to have your period.

In 7th grade I watched a creepy video that explained everything but still confused me, so I asked mom frankly, and she just explained it to me. Ever since if I have a question, we talk about it.

My friend on the other hand asked her parents when she was 9 and they said "When a mommy and daddy love each other very much the daddy sticks his ******* in the mommy's *********"

Funny enough she's a Lesbian nowadays.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Google.

Kidding, I never had the talk (I think, I can't really remember). I knew about it before Sex Ed in School, but I can't really remember exactly where I learned about it. I kinda just worked it out for myself, I think.

 

[Your once and future Fanboy]

Figuered it out as I got older, never got the talk.
But if I wanted to be funny, I would say that it was from the japanese Art/porn movie "in the realm of the senses" that they showed by accident at one of the mainstream Norwegian tv canals (not cable, but one that came with every TV) NRK 2 in 2003.
They showed it about 5'o clock in the afternoon , right before the childrens programs at the same canal.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I've never had "the talk" in any way, shape and form. It was just never discussed whatsoever. What I know I learnt from the internet, spoken word or personal experience... god knows how I'm the functioning person I am today.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I think I got my first inkling from watching horror movies when I was young and then a lot of my older friends would talk about 'S-E-X'... Then I had the proper talk when I was at school with the video and that.

 

[Samwise137]

I wasn't emotionally ready for it in school so I just tuned it out and thought about something else. I discovered it for myself a few years later instead. Though, I have always joked "all I really need to know about I learnt from George Carlin."

 

[saintsiner]

Learned on my 9th birthday. Mother took me down to the basement, kept the lights off, had me sit on the couch next to her as she explained it. Was so awkward, explained why my horny older sister kept getting moods where she wanted to crawl into my bed in the middle of the night and snuggle as close as possible with full contact...>.>

That sounds a little disturbing

 

[Navvan]

This thread...

Seriously though I never had a single moment were I learned about "the birds and the bees". It occurred in incremental steps growing up that I no longer explicitly remember.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Then the next year my mom bought me some book with a cartoon bird and bee that pretty much filled in all the gaps in my knowledge, and was also cute without being evasive or condescending.

Oh yeah! I remember that book! "it's perfectly normal" right? Got that in high school form my mom. Took me awhile before I cared enough/had enough curiosity to check it out.


When I first found out, I was in grade 6, I think. My parents borrowed this book for me that explained how animals reproduced, and I was "Oh, cool, but humans don't do that, right?" And then the book got to that point and I was " WHAT? I thought that if two adults got married and did a certain kind of kiss, they'd....oh gosh, this is scary! I don't wanna know any more!".

And then high school came and since it was an all boy school, everyone was a sex crazed maniac (or rather a lot of guys were), so I got turned off the subject until years later when I decided to read the whole book with the bird and bee, and even then I was a bit apprehensive.

It was only once I hit college and got away from my high school's constant omnipresent religious messages that I loosened up and realized it's not that damn big a deal.