the birds 'n the bees

[1st love ron]

Did your parents sit you down and tell you all about sex? I learned about sex the old fashioned way, from schoolmates. Thank God I'll never have to give "the talk" as I'll never have kids!

 

[Nonimus]

I had a 'short-cut' version by my mother when I was 10 - she didn't tell me much I didn't already know, and funnily enough - I don't remember being embaressed.

 

[Marbas]

I kept pets since I was very young, so I guessed that humans probably reproduced in roughly the same fashion; ie, take one male and one female, put them together, a bit of frantic humping ensues, et voila, a while later babies are born.

When I was about seven I asked my mother where human babies came from and she confirmed my suspicions, and a year or so later we had sex-education (at a very simple level) in junior school.


No mention of homosexuality in all of this; but I'd already worked that out for myself too: I had two male rabbits which didn't fight each other (as male rabbits usually do), and they didn't seem to be remotely interesteed in my female rabbits; they preferred to hump each other.

I believe my observations of my pet rabbits led me to consider homosexuality to be completely natural.

 

[winterknight]

I figured it out for myself when I was six.

By reading the cat book.

That book was a mine of information.

 

[Croynan]

There was no talk. Silence abounded during childhood due to another serious matter. And thus one learns that Silence is Not Golden But Safe. It does however, carry much burdon with it.

eM.

 

[Brad]

Birds? Bees? Waddaya mean? My Mama got babies from Heaven? How come I don't get no babies?

 

[neruda]

My Dad gave me a special pep talk - very straightforward and instructive ( I just turned 13) - he was quite straight faced and "technical" about the whole thing ....and though I guess we both knew that I sorta knew already ... it felt good to have the old man sit and tell.

 

[jwest]

nope...

 

[GL]

Thankfully, no.

 

[Christopher123]

Did your parents sit you down and tell you all about sex?

Nope.

I found out/figured it out on my own.

 

[mattyboi_aus]

I learned everything from school mates, and of course that wonderful old thing called experimentation!

 

[cocktales]

My Dad 'splained it ALL to me!

See, I grew up on a farm with lots of animals and my Dad (and I) would often select cows to breed to certain bulls on the farm and when you do that, it's difficult NOT to ask questions and also even more difficult NOT to tell the truth and see what animals do by watching....

I watched from actually breeding the cow to seeing them have babies and after you've experienced that, it's easy to ask the right questions about people-sex! lol

My Dad was great about it all and he never once made it seem ugly, nasty or anything dis-tasteful and he encouraged questions.

He said if there's anything you don't understand, just ask and I will try to explain it to you...........and he always did!

We had some of the best talks when I was growing up and he never refused to answer any questions; except personal questions between he and Mom, when I treaded to close to home with my questions...

He even admitted to masturbating........he said everyone does it and if someone denies it, they are lieing!

I was NEVER made to feel ashamed of my body or any of my bodily functions...NEVER!

I can't even imagine someone being ashamed/afraid of talking to one's Dad about sex, for to me, it was completely natural.

 

[Swellegant]

I never got The Talk, but I did get all of the necessary information in installments. Mostly from my mother.

I was told about sex when I was five or six years old and Mother caught me and a friend of my sister's en flagrante delicto during a play-date. The little girl was demonstrating with me what her mommie did with male friends. This precipitated a lecture on the mechanics and the Biblical connotations, with the (rather hypocritically for her) injunction that one gets married first.

Then I got the whole low-down on pregnancy and child-bearing, complete with colored diagrams, from Mother when she was pregnant with my half-sister. I was nine or ten then. At eleven I got the "your body is changing naturally" talk on puberty from my stepmother (when she discovered I'd been shaving my legs). And then the rest of the necessary information came from my science teacher in the seventh grade.

My father just let me have access to his porn, from which I learned pretty much everything else I needed to know... except for this one piece of advice he gave me: "Never fuck a woman you wouldn't want to marry." Not because it's wrong, mind you, but because women tend to get knocked up and you end up married to them.

I learned all about gay sex from Gordon Merrick novels, along with trial and error.

 

[just_mills]

Well, they attempted to tell me, but I informed there was no point as they were about 4/5 years too late. Bless'm

 

[Diodorus]

Nope here too......I grew up on a farm and I guess my parents figured I would understand it by osmosis.....I did have the hard cock part figured out..

 

[dkonfrost]

oh gosh no. i think my parents hoped that i learned all the proper knowledge about sex on our own.

good thing we were smart enough and resourceful enough.

and catholic filipino culture just has repression written all over it anyway

 

[backpacker]

No, but they did teach sex ed in 7th grade. The teacher didn't want to teach it, so he suck a hot 22 year old student teacher with the task. She was so embarrassed that she confused everyone far more than she helped. She literally couldn't say the words. The only thing she every said about the male portion of sex is that "the guys have the hard part". I guess you could take that in more than one way.

 

[Leidian]

I didn't get the talk exactly. There came a day, determined randomly I think, when my Mom and sister left for a girls' night and my dad popped in a cartoon video about where babies come from. He didn't explain anything past what the video did.

I remember I struggled for like two weeks about whether or not I should ask him if we could rent another video so I could understand better - maybe one that had real people. I didn't ask him, but what a little perv I was, haha.

 

[Soilwork]

I'm not convined my parents know shit about it.

 

[dragonpearls333]

3 weeks of sex ed from 5th grade to 9th grade...

I think my parents hoped that I would know enough for them to not have to explain to me. Though one time I think they did try to teach me, but I ran away.