Poll: The Talk

[Marter]

I never got "The Talk". In my parent's eyes, that is what Sex Education at school is for.

 

[Loop Stricken]

My experience is summed up largely by the following image;

Spoiler

 

[Commander Jack Rankin]

Thanks to cable, my parents didn't have to give me The Talk. Skinemax FTW.

 

[Oregano]

Was never given a talk of any kind. I've worked at becoming a biology major since highschool and that pretty much told me all that needed to be told.

 

[lazy_bum]

Pretty sure i had The Talk before i was 10, so long ago i cannot really remember. however i definatley had sex ed in year 4(british). don't know how old i was in year 4 anymore, but it was definatley AFTER i had had The Talk

 

[Loop Stricken]

Pretty sure i had The Talk before i was 10, so long ago i cannot really remember. however i definatley had sex ed in year 4(british). don't know how old i was in year 4 anymore, but it was definatley AFTER i had had The Talk

Was that the same shitty video with the girl and boy cartoon sitting back to back on the floor with that god-awful voiceover explaining how they'll change when puberty hits?

The video was so low-budget. I expected the cartoons to actually CHANGE as the voiceover went on but no such luck.

 

[gmer412]

Google images, man. I was innocent way back when. I can thank the internet for removing that particular barrier to life.

 

[lazy_bum]

My experience is summed up largely by the following image;

Spoiler

I lol'd so hard at that.

Out of sheer morbid curiousity (and i know i'm going to regret asking) WTF is that from and WTF is it about?

 

[lazy_bum]

Google images, man. I was innocent way back when. I can thank the internet for removing that particular barrier to life.

BAH innocence is overrated.

 

[TransMando]

My parents gave me a pamphlet which was awkward, because I was supposed to only read the 'boy part' and being a curious youth I read the whole thing and was terribly confused.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

my parents told me to use safe sex(had no idea what that meant for a long time) when I was 7 or 8, but I mainly picked it all up from school and the interwebs(NOT THE PORN)

I got the talk when I was around 6 or 7. I stumbled across porn only once in the form of a pop up ad that wouldn't go away when I tried to get rid of it. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't an ad for a very bad fetish site. *shudders in remembered trauma*

It's okay, need some cookies?

 

[StonkThis]

I learned myself.

 

[Lexodus]

Year 4 (British), with the video of a fat woman giving birth (all of it shown) and then taking a massive shit on the baby's head. And they wonder I'm so fucked up...

I found out the other day that somebody at my college also suffered trauma at the hands of that video. She used to cry when she saw herself naked X'D

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I don't remember how old I was, think around 15-16. I was watching MXC and my dad came in and said "how much do you know about condoms (or maybe it was sex)?" and freaked me out.

 

[Loop Stricken]

My experience is summed up largely by the following image;

Spoiler

I lol'd so hard at that.

Out of sheer morbid curiousity (and i know i'm going to regret asking) WTF is that from and WTF is it about?

Deadpool. Fear not, there shall be no regret. Get thee to a Google and learn, sir.

 

[Gruthar]

Well, my sister explained the process to me when I was young (one of the advantages of having an older sibling is they tell you all the stuff you're not supposed to know.) I don't remember what age I was, but probably around 5 or 6. The specific details I learned from health class.

I did ask my dad "Where do babies come from?" when I was 9 -- knowing the answer full well -- just to see what he would do. It made him uncomfortable, and he dodged the question. I can be a jerk sometimes.

 

[hotacidbath]

They taught us the basics at school in sixth grade (11-years-old) and I guess my parents just never saw the need. The only sex related thing my mom ever talked to me about in a serious manner (meaning not sex jokes) was when I was 16 or so and we were watching True Life: I Have Baby Mama Drama (or some shit like that) and she said "don't be stupid, make sure he wears a condom" and then she just got up and left. It was pretty weird.

And I once asked my grandma what a virgin is and after a long pause she told me that it was someone that wasn't married. It makes me laugh now, but what a damn good way to avoid actually answering that question.

 

[lazy_bum]

Pretty sure i had The Talk before i was 10, so long ago i cannot really remember. however i definatley had sex ed in year 4(british). don't know how old i was in year 4 anymore, but it was definatley AFTER i had had The Talk

Was that the same shitty video with the girl and boy cartoon sitting back to back on the floor with that god-awful voiceover explaining how they'll change when puberty hits?

The video was so low-budget. I expected the cartoons to actually CHANGE as the voiceover went on but no such luck.

we had a selection of videos as far as i remember, might have been one of them, had a really dodgy cartoon about sex. and a video of one woman actually giving birth. i remember that because two girls and one boy fainted...

 

[stonethered]

I got the talk around fourteen. I was pretty well sheltered till then.
It wasn't a particularly enlightening talk, so I went and learned more on my own.

Frankly, I think what they say curiosity did to the cat isn't so farfetched. Word of advice, don't be curious; somethings can never be unseen.