Birds and the Bees? (AKA Sex Talk)

I've always wondered if your parents have given you "the talk", in other words, the birds and the bees or simply, SEX TALK. I would like to know if you guys ever had the talk and finally know about sex. OR if you guys ended up finding out about sex from other sources, like porno, a book, or simply from school. Please share!

I ended up finding out from a book during school in 5th grade. My teacher assigned us books and we had to talk about a very interesting part from the books at the front of the class. I ended up getting a book about the human body. I read until the page about the reproductive system and it clearly explained what hetero sex is. I was like,"That's how it happens?!?!?!!" So, I ended up telling the entire class (all 35 kids) about sex. They probably didn't believe me until 7th grade.

 

my parents didnt lol

 

yaa school did that hehe

 

Yeah, and it's one of my mom's favorite stories about me.

I was maybe 11 years old, painfully naive. My mom sits me down one day, explains the whole deal about how the man sticks in the penis, woman gets pregnant and nine months later, baby.

She didn't go into what actually made the baby. 11 year old me knew little about what a penis actually produced (wasn't like I had a frame of reference). For me, a penis was a terribly useful apparatus that let a guy pee standing up.

So, naive 11 year old + limited knowledge of penis = 11 year old me, crying out in horror, "So he PEES inside her?"

I later learned about everything else through school/internet.

 

Haha as far as the birds and bees go I'm pretty much self-taught 0.0

It's probably why when it comes to knowing about stuff I know plenty, but I have zero idea how to do the whole 'practical application' bit

 

When I was 11, we had this male dog, a Doberman who went by the name "Firpo". He was a very stupid dog, frankly, but very good-looking. One day this total stranger rings our doorbell and tells us that he has a female Doberman and he would like to see if his and ours would mate. We agreed to give it a try.

Firpo, the dumb dog, did not know what to do upon meeting said female of his kind, so my sister and I literally had to direct his member and the rest of his body to do the correct procedure. That took about an hour, but Firpo, the dumbass dog, finally figured it out.

When we got back inside, I exclaimed to my mother: "What if we had to do that!"

...so this is how our mother actually gave us the sex talk...

 

School, oh god we had to learn about the individual DNA strands.

 

:lol:

I call that hands on experience.

 

I learned about it through textbooks that my mom had left over from her pre-med days before she went off to Chiropractic school. I remember being 12 and my mom asked me once if I knew what it was and just to reiterate it to me she just plainly stated, "When a man puts his penis in a woman's vagina."

When I was 14, I got the good old high school health class with a pretty blonde teacher in her first year out of college. All the other freshman boys were drooling at the opportunity, but as for me, I really wasn't that interested. I already knew this stuff. That said, I got an A in the class, but she was very good at saying this stuff with a straight face, especially reading off the correct answers on quizzes.

"Question #9: How does withdrawal work? Correct answer: Ejaculation occurs outside the vagina."

 

I am SO glad i never got that talk. I cant imagine growing up before the internet. Although anatomy and physiology at uni last year i pretty much had to learn it over again.

 

Never had "the talk" but my mom saved a magazine detailing how to explain sex to kids and I found it when I was ten. Somehow, we implicitly agreed we needed not to speak of the subject. By the time sex ed came around, I already knew about all they were going over.

 

My parents never gave me the talk either. Definitely made me nervous for a few years whenever they'd say we need to have a chat.

It would have been a mortifying experience, but I kind of wish it had happened. Maybe if we had that out of the way we'd be better at talking about more personal things.

 

Well, my mom told me when I was a kid, but I was too young to take any of it seriously. I don't think I found out until I was in college how homosexual sex works. Yeah, I was pretty sheltered. I was raised in a Christian school, which I only claim so I can say I had a private school education.

 

My school gave us a very vague sex ed class in upper elementary. Fifth grade was just about the puberty for girls, sixth grade was about puberty for boys and sex itself, and both classes were separated by gender. I give the teachers credit for trying, but seriously, it was terrible. I once asked what date rape was, because it was in the book, and my teacher just told me it was "when you say no and a boy doesn't listen". Seventh grade was the co-ed class that went into detail and that I actually learned anything from.

The only sex talk my parents gave me happened after my dad had a huge birthday party, which was the summer after sixth grade. Some idiot had dropped a condom on the floor during the party, and my parents immediately interrogated me the next day about it. When I told them I had never seen that little foil packet in my life and had no clue what the heck it was, my mother then took me aside and explained.

As for homosexual sex... I learned about that on my own. Oh internet. XD

 

I don't remember my parents ever doing it...same thing as you I guess, learning it in grade 5. haha

 

Me and my mom never had the talk and didn't have any sex ed in high school because I was homeschooled through a christian organization so needless to say my education was the internet and i'm still learning.

 

OMG same here. My mom told me about periods at age 11, but didn't give me the sex talk until I was about 12 (or 13? I don't even remember the talk, now that I think of it). By that time, I had figured out everything---I really mean everything, from contraception to sex to abortion (!!!)---from books. I thought it was a bad thing that I knew already, and it made me very ashamed and scared about when she'd actually tell me. In fact, when she finally did, she asked me if I already knew and I lied "no." Later on, she told me she knew I knew (apparently I sucked at hiding books or something), and wasn't angry at me, and in fact, didn't tell me for so long because of it. Communication issue, much?

It would have been better if she had been more open, but I turned out ok, I suppose lol.

 

Never had that talk with parents, never really want to. I'm really awkward when it comes to talking about sex or anything sexual in person, so that would be horrible. I learned through other people at school.

 

Definitely the same here with the awkwardness bit.

 

i know mine did too lol