Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say-no-more...

[Bobbity]

I'm a teenager, so while I might feel compelled to scream out, "PORN!" occasionally, it's still embarrassing to talk about sex :S

 

[michiehoward]

When was it not an acceptable topic of conversation?

 

[willofbob]

I tend not to talk about it.

It's not the greates conversation topic and I usually only do it for jokes(I feel a great disturbance, as if a thousand double entendres cried out and were silenced), but I find it unimaginative if sex is the first place you go. when making a joke, I mean.

 

[Vault101]

I have this terrible fear that as some point My mum is going to try and talk to me about it which is somthing my brain cannot handle, plus Im waaaaay to old for "the talk" and she never gave it to me....probably because Im anti-social

anyway she tried to get my sister to do it at which point I buried my face in a pillow and sacreamd NOT HAVING THIS CONVERSATION!!

yeah Im uncomfortable talking about it

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

I notice that people talk about sex more openly the older they get... Due to maturity and whatnot...

After the age of about 16 people stop lying about how much they have sex and stop all the immature giggling over the mention of it and can openly discuss it amongst peers.

I've also noticed that people talk about it more openly on forums as time passes, probably due to the nature of how often sex is shown in the media (I've lost count of the amount of prime-time television programmes and films I have watched that included scenes of people having sex (No they were not porno's either)) and how much sex is taught at schools which I guess is due to the increase in teen pregnancies and STDs that are being spread.

I don't know about other people but during my school life I've had about 50 Sex Ed classes that were all mandatory and gave the same information starting from when I was 10 up until I left school at 15.

I guess it also helps that people who are shy about asking people in person about sex can go onto a internet forum and be annonymous while asking what ever questions they seek answers or understanding of.

Actually...teen pregnancies, at least in the US have generally gone down significantly. Though in certain areas this isn't true, overall, its mostly the case.

 

[smithy_2045]

I once had a theory about people and their relationship with the entity we commonly called sex, and it's this:

those that talk about it most, get it least. (I'm not being antagonistic here I just looked at the facts in my possession at the time, and talking about it also included sexual inuendo goodness help me).

For the most part this has worked quite nicely as a theory as a lot of my friends who do talk about sex way more than I'm comfortable with I know for a fact are not sleeping with their partner or aren't in a relationship (and actually I get pretty uncomfortable at the merest mention of sex as a physical act).

But actually, I've noticed that these days people are just generally more open about talking about sex and not just the fact that they are or aren't getting any because if the the openness of the idividuals on this forum is anything to go buy the taboo about sex is slowly disapearing.

So, my questions for discussion is this, in your opinion:

Is sex becoming a more aceptable conversation topic?
Are people becoming generally more curious about the topic but have nowhere else to turn?
Or has the advent of the internet and anonimity provoked conversation more?

Or just generally voice an opinion about your ideas about socity and sex.

Discuss!

(Why yes this is a reactionary thread to all the 'sex' threads we've been having at the moment on the escapist, how did you guess?)

I neither talk about sex, nor get any. BL to your theory.