Poll: The Talk
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Hmmm ... well I was always a curious person, so I actually asked my parents all the questions I needed to know about sex when I was between 8 and 11. They never actually sat me down and gave me a talk, because by the time I was 'mature' enough, I had already asked everything there was to know.
I figured everything out on my own.
Fun thing is, I'm way more comfortable with all of it than my parent are...
If the talk was actually a necessary thing, then they probably would have put it off for years (And I mean YEARS, knowing them), then they would have mostly just stuttered and twitched a lot.
Then they would have run out of the room.
Heh, that actually would have been pretty funny.
Fun thing is, I'm way more comfortable with all of it than my parent are...
If the talk was actually a necessary thing, then they probably would have put it off for years (And I mean YEARS, knowing them), then they would have mostly just stuttered and twitched a lot.
Then they would have run out of the room.
Heh, that actually would have been pretty funny.
Never had the talk with my parents. Most of it came from kids at school, applied knowledge. I knew what sex was well before the scare film they showed us in eighth grade which showed pictures of penises, vaginas, birth, and full blown herpes, with a healthy dose of AIDS. Watching a full batch of placenta and mung fall on the floor from a vagina made me never want to get a woman pregnant, inflicting that kind of pain on someone, which I'm not sure if that's the message they were trying to get across. Then of course the step brothers showing me hardcore when I was 12 was a fundamental development. The fact that they separated us in fifth grade, the boys and the girls, and showed us films about the particular sex going through puberty seemed rather jackass. Yes, I know I'm 'growing hair down there', yes I know girls are pretty, and they gave out deodorant to the males and tampons to the females. Seemed odd, but apparently I'm not a teacher who's expected to do the job of the parents, but not explain enough that I risk my job.
I have very liberal parents... The talk consisted of a short exchange, and I already knew just about everything, because I'm smart.
My parents ignored any acknowledgement of the subject up until I was 17 because no one (sane) lkes to think about their daughter being sexually active, but that ship sailed when I was about 14.
Though they were pretty cool about me having my new boyfriend stay over when I got to 17, though my Dad did draw a picture of him outside the 'circle of trust' (ala Meet The Parents) and told him he used to be in the SAS. Which actually may or may not be true.
In short, I think they'd rather die thn talk about that stuff to me, and I like it that way.
Though they were pretty cool about me having my new boyfriend stay over when I got to 17, though my Dad did draw a picture of him outside the 'circle of trust' (ala Meet The Parents) and told him he used to be in the SAS. Which actually may or may not be true.
In short, I think they'd rather die thn talk about that stuff to me, and I like it that way.
I kind of figured it out by myself.Not just from the internet, I had this youth magazine, where people asked question about it. A great teaching tool. When I had sex-ed in school I aced the entire course! too bad it wasn't math...
When I was seven years old and first started to become aware of sexuality, I invaded my stepmother's cocktail party after I was supposed to be in bed, and - I shit you not - skipped around the party pretending to pluck people's genitalia as if fruit from a tree, gathering them in an imaginary basket while calling out "penis!" and "vagina!" with each pluck.
My father sat me down the next day to give me an awkward conversation about how men and women have opposing, interlocking parts, using phrases like "concave", "penetration" and "wonderful".
I didn't absorb much at the time because I was terribly ashamed of myself after having it explained to me just how obscene what I'd done was, but the speech itself stuck with me, and I think gave me a fairly mature outlook on sex from that point on.
My father sat me down the next day to give me an awkward conversation about how men and women have opposing, interlocking parts, using phrases like "concave", "penetration" and "wonderful".
I didn't absorb much at the time because I was terribly ashamed of myself after having it explained to me just how obscene what I'd done was, but the speech itself stuck with me, and I think gave me a fairly mature outlook on sex from that point on.
Hahahaha, omg that sucks sorry man.. You know what they say about the internet...shewolf said:
Dunno, sort of spread out.
I do't think i've ever been sat down and told " we need to talk about bees and birds"
Though my mom felt like she had to remind me that 13 year old girls was ilegal, when i was 15 and had a girlfriend who was 13. It was totally unneccecery, but i guess thats the closest thing i've had.
Guess the old ones knew i was smart enough to figure something as simple as condom use out by myself / what we we're taught in school. And honestly, i can't really understand how people can be too stupid to not understand it, i honestly think most of the stories about teen pregnancy and VD's are cause people didn't give a fuck about safe sex, not cause they didn't know.
I do't think i've ever been sat down and told " we need to talk about bees and birds"
Though my mom felt like she had to remind me that 13 year old girls was ilegal, when i was 15 and had a girlfriend who was 13. It was totally unneccecery, but i guess thats the closest thing i've had.
Guess the old ones knew i was smart enough to figure something as simple as condom use out by myself / what we we're taught in school. And honestly, i can't really understand how people can be too stupid to not understand it, i honestly think most of the stories about teen pregnancy and VD's are cause people didn't give a fuck about safe sex, not cause they didn't know.
I had abot three 'Talks', each designed to help me through a specific stage of growing up. The first was before I was ten, to warn me about growth spurts and the fact that 'things' were going to change, but my dad was nonspecific as to the things.
He recently showed me all the things he had written down that he needed to cover. He organised it like he was giving a presentation or something.
He recently showed me all the things he had written down that he needed to cover. He organised it like he was giving a presentation or something.
No you had absolutely every right to ask your dad.Gruthar said: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.