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The sex talk

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Hexagon, May 27, 2013.

  1. Hexagon

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    What kind of stuff, if any, did your parents tell you about sex? How did that affect you? And what do you plan on telling your kids, if you ever have any?

    Personally, my parents said something along the lines of: "Mummies and Daddies do things, and mummies get pregnant, and they have babies". Like most white british middle aged middle class christians, they're allergic to sex. I've still yet to figure out if they're even aware if things like masturbation are possible. This lead to me being freakishly nieve about sex, and a bit of social embarrassment, which I covered for using the internet. I'm more open and comfortable with sex now, but for a long time I wasn't.

    If I have kids, I will be more open than my parents. I don't know exactly what I will say, but it will be non-gender specific, and I'll make sure they know sex isn't bad/shameful.

    What about you?
     
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    my parents never said anything to me, they just kind of avoided the conversation. until i was about 13 or so. my youngest brother was in college and he had came home for a weekend. the following monday my mom sound porn on her computer in the browsing history. so she decided to blame me for it then have an in-depth awkward sex talk. for one even if i did look at it or look it up, i know to clear the history. but i didn't even do it. if i remember correctly i think i got grounded from the TV/computer for like a week too.
     
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    I've never had any sex talk with my parents. I learned most of it from hearing other people talk about it, those very briefs Sex Ed class we had (think I've had like 3 in total throughout my whole school experience), and porn. The latter being where I learned the most. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    I asked how babies where born at about aged 10 when id heard stuff at school they told my 14 year old sister to tell me she went in to too much detail and I was scared for life. There was always lots of embarrassment around sex my parents always said "it
    " instead of making love or sex until I was about 18 and having sex and I snapped and said I was old enough to be having sex they should be able to call it sex and he started talking to me more maturally from them on.
     
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    Never talked with my parents about it.Maybe because from very young age,i knew i was different so i never asked about how we are born or something.The only question i did to my mom when i was 10 was ''Mom,what gay means?''She seemed bothered from the question and told me ''Why you want to know?Are you gay?''
     
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    My Parents never discussed Sex with me, I had to rely on friends at school & the occasional Sex Education Lesson, where people ask silly questions to get a laugh & to try & embarrass the Teacher :slight_smile:
     
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    I never got the talk my mom avoided it like the plague but I learned alot(maybe to much) from my friends at school, and let me tell you at this point any innocence I once had was destroyed a long time ago...
     
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    I've never really talked to my parents about sex... They don't even mention the word.
    I just have some lessons at school and talked to friends (but they were all straight :/) Sex Ed lessons were quite fun because the teacher was really open, she accepted everything and talked about gay sex too... My class had a really good relationship with our teacher :slight_smile:
     
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    My mum has told me quite a lot actually.
    When I was about 10 years old, she told me something like 'when two people really like each other, and they want to be really close, so close that they want to be inside of each other' I don't remember the exact thing.
    And a couple of months ago (for the record, I'm 16 now), we had a really, really open conversation about it, about masturbation, and that it's really different with an actual partner. Well, she used the term 'man', but that's probably my own fault.

    I don't plan to have any kids, but I like the way my mum handled it. She didn't make any secrets of it. It meant that I knew quite 'adult' things at a young age, but also that I knew what was going on. I understood when I started to think about those kind of things.
     
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    I couldn't have a sex talk since I was born a girl and raised by a single dad and his brother. I just got bits and pieces from my female classmates in elementary school who had already started their periods. Some of the girls took me under their wing, and so did some of the women at church, but I don't really remember what all was said. I do remember, however, that I asked a lot of questions and made people uncomfortable. I don't think I learned that girls could masturbate until I was probably 19 though! I didn't learn the fine details until I was in college and started looking into it on my own.

    As of now, I don't plan on ever having kids. I might want to adopt kids later (not babies, but kids). I have no idea what I'd say to them. I'd really want to adopt boys, and then my husband will probably handle it. I'd rather he handle it anyway. He's very nurturing and perceptive and is really good at keeping a level head. He loves kids, and he's really good with them. Kids scare me so badly. They almost always cry in my presence. Everyone says it'll be different if/when they're my kids, but I'm not so sure about that....
     
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    I can't remember ever having the sex talk with my parents. I learned everything from videos and nature programmes, which did a pretty good job of graphically presenting the fact sex was not holding hands or exchanging bubblegum.
     
  12. drwinchester

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    I remember my mom giving me the basic sex talk at eleven. I asked how babies were made, she sat down, explaining that the penis enters the vagina and- Well, for some reason I had this idea that the penile equipped had to piss in the vagina in order for babymaking to happen so I sat there, eyes wide, and cried "So he pees inside her?"

    She nodded. "Um...yes?"

    I was a rather stupid child. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: Everything else I learned about sex basically came from the internet. :wink:
     
  13. Oddish

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    My parents have never ever discussed sex with me, ever. Not even once, unless if I asked when I was really young and now I can't remember. I think they assumed that the internet and sex ed. would teach me, or something. They weren't very overprotective of me, either, so yeah. I don't really care, it would have been a weird discussion.

    I'm sure they're still under the impression that I'm a virgin. Not that I want them to know the truth, however. I wish it were a much more comfortable thing to discuss, though. And it didn't carry so much unneeded taboo.
     
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    As far as the more distant past, I can't recall really talking about sex with my mother. The only thing which made an impact on me was when she discovered I was checking out porn back when I was in high school, and told me I shouldn't be going to those sites [in part, because they might effect the computer.] All that did was make me paranoid about people finding out what I was looking at, especially as I began to focus more on guys.... >____>

    If I ever had children, I'd also like to make the subject as natural and comfortable to discuss with parents as possible.
     
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    Haven't had the sex talk yet, though I'm sure I will sooner or later.
     
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    My parents and I never had the sex talk, but I can't say I mind. It would have been horribly awkward.
     
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    My two brothers and I never got the sex talk, only my sister did. When I have kids, I'll probably be very vague about it, and just cover the "wear a condom please" parts...
     
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    I had one very awkward talk with my mother about the time I was 11 or 12. I think I asked about where babies come from, or something like that. I got a very bare bones outline. It was either really stripped down, or else I was really stupid, because I was not able to connect certain dots. I was having erections, but I never thought through enough to realize that was part of the "putting the penis into the woman." And I never figured out the pleasure part, even though I was masturbating.

    My vision, actually, was that a married couple would decide to have a child. So the man would put his penis into the woman, and they'd just lie there as sperm drained out of the man into the woman. Nine months later, a baby would be born. And then the couple would repeat the process if and only if they wanted another baby.

    Still...she did what she could. I don't think she was comfortable--her own mother was pretty prudish, so I think she could have had huge discomfort with anything to do with sexuality.
     
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    My mom found an article in a parenting magazine the year I was born that talked about how to explain sex to kids. Her idea was to give me the article when the time came. Being the avid reader that I am, I read the article long before she gave it to me. My parents never formally broached the subject.

    Also, before I read the article, when I was 7 or 8, I thought that babies were made when the man inserted the penis in a woman's bellybutton :roflmao:; I didn't know women had a vagina.
     
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    My parents have been very clear about stuff and answered questions.