What did your parents tell you about sex!

[ms.peachy]

Inspired by the "mom likes ass sex" thread...

How old were you when you had "the talk" with your parents?

Or, did you even have "the talk" at all?

What did they say?

Or did they just stick the "Where Did I Come From?" book in your hands and run away?

For me - my mom was pregnant with my youngest sister when I was 7, so my parents felt that would be a good time to tell me all about how babies are made. They were pretty thorough, I have to say. There were lots of books and diagrams and what not. (If it had been today and not the 70's, I'm sure my mom would have made up some sort of PowerPoint presentation.) I had rather a lot of biological knowledge for a second grader, it must be said.

Mr.peachy says he had 2 sex talks with his dad. One was when he was about 15 and it went like this:

"They teach about all that stuff in school, right son?"

"Yeah, Dad."

The second was the day his parents dropped him off at college and it went like this:

"Keep in your pants, son."

"OK, Dad."

[TAL]

No talk or book whatsoever.

[ms.peachy]

No talk or book whatsoever.

Live demonstration? Interpretive dance? Abstract watercolour? Claymation?

[venusvenus123]

in sweden everyone walks around naked and does it openly in the supermarket checkout!

i remember this funny little book my mum showed me. i was about 7.
with 2 older sisters she probably figured that she should tell me "properly" rather than getting their version of events.
i saw plenty enough from them--or at least the eldest--to put me off the whole thing for a good long while :((n):(

[camo]

absolutly nothing. My parents never had sex. I'm a miracle.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Hardly anything. My mum and I had a throrough 'periods' talk but as for sex...it was school yard talk. They did say 'you can come to us to talk about anything' but i rarely did because i was too embarrased.

I think my dad only realised i was having sex when i got pregnant. Age 32.

[Loppfessor]

I officially learned where babies come from when I was like 8 cus my mom was el prego with my sister....we talked and watched two videos, The Miracle of Life (or birth) and Where Did I come Frome?....the second one was a hilarious cartoon and my parents got soo embarassed they walked out of the room while I laughed hysterically.....

Flash forward to when I was like 16. I was dating this girl from work who was 18 and had a car. She would always come pick me and we'd go out so my mother assumed we were having sex. One day before the girl came over my mom told me to sit down she said "Now I'm not telling you it's okay to be having sex but if you are going to then you had better be safe" and she gave me a box of condoms. I thought it was a nice gesture and I could tell she wanted to cry cus her baby boy was "all grown up" or something...

[TAL]

Live demonstration? Interpretive dance? Abstract watercolour? Claymation?

No. No. No. No.

[roosta]

what the hell is "sex"? :confused:

[trailerprincess]

My parents discovered that my Tricolore (french textbook) contained several rather graphic amendments to the 'parts of the body' section (not made by me I hasten to add) and then asked me if I knew what the terms meant. I think I said sort of. And then my mum handed me a book and said if you have any questions to talk to her. I read and didn't want to ever discuss anything EVER AGAIN. I think I was about 14 or so.

[TurdBerglar]

i remember always knowing more about sex then my friends when i was a kid. but no one never really sat me down and spoke to me about it. i first had sex ed in 5th grade. so i was like 9. and all the discovery channel and the learning channel shit i watched. i use to listen to the radio with headphones as i slept. if a didn't fall asleep in time this sex/relations show would come one with callers asking ridiculous questions. i think that show was the major contributing factor.

when i was 18/19 i was dating this girl same age as me and she didn't know what her clit was. she thought the term clit was the opening to her vagina. how does that even happen? she was by no means a prude, either.

[Bob]

i'm still under the impression that storks are involved somehow

[Loppfessor]

i'm still under the impression that storks are involved somehow

Oh they can be...if your girlfriend is cool with it....marry her!!

[-T-]

They told me nothing and thats all I needed to know.

I believe my parents had talks with my older sisters? Maybe because of the fear of some guy sticking it to them. Also rules about dating/when they could date and so on.

Because I am the boy I apparently do receive any of those talks. lol. Everything has just been unspoken.

[Caribou]

I never had 'the talk'. My parents are very much embarassed about the whole sex thing and the only time I heard my mum mention it, was at a birthday party when she was drunk.
I just figured it out myself and by the age of 14, when we got sex-ed in school, I pretty much knew everything already, including the biological stuff.

Because it was never mentioned at home, my mum thought I was never even interrested in guys until I was about 18.

[abcdefz]

No talk or book whatsoever.


Yup. I'm still waiting.

[ms.peachy]

I was like 14 years old, and for some reason my dad took my friend and I to see "Risky Business". Afterwards, I guess my dad felt some type of moral obligation to say something about all of the sex we just saw so he says "Uh, you know John, sex with a protitute isn't really like that." Mortified, I just nodded my head. When I finish building my time machine, one of the things that I am going to do is ask him "Well, what is sex with a prostitute like then?"

Is your dad still living? Because if he is, you should totally ask him that now. Like at Thanksgiving dinner or something.

[MC Moot]

My mother was the editor of the Canadian edition of "Ms" magazine for 3 years when I was coming up...so I recall "Our Bodies Ourselves" floating around the house and when she'd find you with it she'd engage you on whatever subject you were reading about...she totally explained the female and male reproductive systems in a manner by which a 9 year old boy could understand.....so nothing was taboo with her....Pops however was wayyy less than direct,encouraging flirtation with girls but always being shallow or trying to make light of the subject....I remmeber he explained sperm as "Gods Glue" etc....

[jabumbo]

i never really got much of a talk from my parents either. just a few little things here and there

when i was going out anywhere that she knew a girl would be, or when she would ship me back to college, she always did the "you know your responsible if a girl gets pregnant" thing. mom tends to use the blunt fear tactic

[abcdefz]

The only stuff I remember is:

My parents often confuse judgment with reality. So, growing up, I believed you couldn't have a baby unless you were married. I remember
really being shocked when an unmarried girl in seventh grade got pregnant. I actually thought it was a physical impossibility.

Also, when I was probably in second grade or so, one of my brothers at dinner talked about a girl in his high school who got in trouble for
passing a note to her boyfriend saying "I can't wait to suck your cock this weekend." I was pretty horrified and asked, "Why would she
want to do that!?"

Never got an answer.

[abcdefz]

Whey.

[HEIRESS]

My mother was the editor of the Canadian edition of "Ms" magazine for 3 years when I was coming up...so I recall "Our Bodies Ourselves" floating around the house and when she'd find you with it she'd engage you on whatever subject you were reading about...she totally explained the female and male reproductive systems in a manner by which a 9 year old boy could understand.....so nothing was taboo with her....Pops however was wayyy less than direct,encouraging flirtation with girls but always being shallow or trying to make light of the subject....I remmeber he explained sperm as "Gods Glue" etc....

AHHHH I totally used to get copies of Ms from the library as a youngster.
what ever happened to it...

[cosmo105]

never had any sort of talk really, except about periods with my mom. i think they assumed that sex ed taught us everything. yeah, it didn't. i was clueless for years :o

[MC Moot]

AHHHH I totally used to get copies of Ms from the library as a youngster.
what ever happened to it...

http://www.msmagazine.com/fall2007/index.asp

[ScarySquirrel]

I remember being pretty damn young and being handed a book about the whole thing. Complete with artsy-fartsy illustrations/paintings. It had pictures of everyone naked alone and it had pictures of people actually doing it as well... but not pornographic stuff. Just those painting things that you might see in an art gallery titled "Lover's Embrace" or something like that.

[abcdefz]

never had any sort of talk really, except about periods with my mom. i think they assumed that sex ed taught us everything. yeah, it didn't. i was clueless for years :o



We didn't even have sex ed. It wasn't even touched upon in biology or anything.

I have no idea what parents are thinking, sometimes.

But my parents really didn't raise me or teach me anything, anyway. Not about hygiene, finances, sex, goals, nothing.

[afronaut]

Wait, what is the "mom likes ass sex" thread???

[beastieangel01]

My Mom talked to me. I can't really remember all she said but she basically reviewed to what sex ed was going over already with me while I was in 6th grade. She added to it that also it would be best if I waited until I really cared about someone, and when I do finally decide to to be safe about it (i.e. condoms) and to be on birth control.

I was like "lol yeah right ew as if I'd ever do that!"

But once I got older and that kind of thing started becoming a possibility, I listened to her.

[Dorothy Wood]

according to my mom, at age 3 I loudly asked her how babies were made at arby's in the food court at the local mall. and she started quietly telling me, but as my curiosity increased, my voice got louder, so she made me wait until we got home to tell me the rest.

also, I apparently was under the impression that men gave birth to boys and women gave birth to girls. :o hee

after that, she pretty much just answered whatever questions I had. I had sex ed in 3rd and 6th and 7th and 9th grade too. I also (secretly) watched HBO's Real Sex when I could. I was pretty educated.

every once and awhile and still, my mom will feel the need to explain something. like when I was 19 and we were watching something that alluded to a boner and she was like, "you know they get hard right, and stuff comes out?" and I was like, "YES, MOTHER I KNOW WHAT PENISES DO AND WHAT SEMEN IS! STOP TALKING NOW!" and she was like, "welllll, I'm just checking, you're not having sex are you?!". "MOMMMM!"

and so on.

[trailerprincess]

I remember seeing a pregnant woman with purple hair and thinking her baby would come out with purple hair too.

[trailerprincess]

I also learnt a lot from Judy Blume -especially 'Forever' and 'Are you there God, its me Margaret'

Nancy Drew suddenly became VERY dull

[abcdefz]

In fourth grade I tried to impress my cousin by telling him I had done "it." He asked me about it, and I described everything. He uneasily
pointed out that the vagina wasn't located in the front, but, instead, between the legs. I maintained that that wasn't true. He said his
parents had explained things to him. I changed the subject.

[abcdefz]

No, they never said anything about that.

Only one time did their complete indifference to me come back to bite 'em on the ass:

They wouldn't let me take driver's ed for whatever reason, so I got my license later, etc. So anyway, one time I was driving one of our cars
and it overheated. I went and got some water and poured it into the radiator like I figured I should, and the block cracked. My dad later was
yelling at me about "How could you pour water into a overheated radiator without letting it cool down first!?" and my response was, "Dad,
how would I know that?"

I think they just assumed that, by osmosis, I'd know shit like this. Fortunately, in this case, my mom actually took my side.

[TurdBerglar]

i remember my parents would never shoo me away if we were all watching a movie and sex scene came up. i would always look at them like... should i leave or something? i would get no reaction from them. just lude jokes from my father. it wasn't a big deal in my family. i wasn't really sheltered from anything. i remember being really shocked when i would visit my friends and they couldn't even watch rated r movies that had nothing but cussing in them. i brought die hard over and i got scolded by the parents.

[abcdefz]

Oh, man.

I got in trouble one time kind of like that.

First grade, my friend David B and I got hold of a refrigerator box and made a fort out of it. I drew a naked woman with huge breasts. David got
in trouble for it and we were never allowed to play together again.

[TurdBerglar]

yeah

that's shit that my father would just laugh at. he'd be actually proud of it and brag about it. but he'd tell me to never do it again.

[TurdBerglar]

my brother use to be friends with this neighbor girl. when they were like 8 or 9 i guess they were both in my brothers room just being kids and playing. i guess the girl wanted to play i'll show you mine if you show me yours. my mother heard this from downstairs and stopped it and yelled at them. my brother was just in his underwear. she also yelled at my father for not doing anything because he was upstairs too in his room watching a ball game or something. she was confused on how he could not hear them and she could all the way downstairs. he just played dumb as to being able to hear them.... i didn't hear them :confused:. when my mom walked away my dad was all like... your mother is such a cock blocker! every kids does that shit!

[abcdefz]

My experience with that was bad. The neighbors across the street had a nephew who was a couple years older than me. He pulled that "show me
yours and I'll show you mine" and I was like, uh... no. He pulled his out anyway so I went home. Never hung out with him again.

[TurdBerglar]

sick

[TurdBerglar]

i have a lot of cousins. the ones that are my age are all girls. i would spend a lot of time at my aunt's and uncle's houses like over the weekends and shit. since most of my cousins were girls, most of their friends were females. and since they were all girls i'd get stuck with playing stupid girl games like house. since i was the boy i would always be the husband. one time i was the husband, my cousin's friend was the wife and my cousin was the baby. the friend had the brilliant idea to "make" the baby. so here i am at 8 or 9 on top on some girl dry humping her like how we saw in movies. not really knowing what it was we were actually doing. we were just pretending. i distictly remember feeling real funny and wanting to do it some more. i was trying to convince the girl we needed to make more babies and she was all like... BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE KIDS TO BE THE BABY!... cock blocked by the god damn rules of imagination.

and it was just purely by chance that the other girl was the wife and not my cousin....

kids can unknowingly and innocently do some fucking strange shit.

[abcdefz]

My girl cousin... it's funny how this thread is bringing up memories.

At Thanksgiving, we'd get together at my grandparent's house (on my mom's side; my dad's parents were in Florida at this point).

Anyway, the kids were usually steered to the furnished basement while the adults hung out upstairs.

Anyway, my sister and my cousin Janet were downstairs with me. I was probably ten or eleven. Anyway, apparently my sister noticed that I
had been getting erections or something, because she had Janet sit on my lap for a bit. I got hard. They took turns for a little while before
I realized that they could feel my erection, and that they were maybe teasing me, so I told them to stop.

Still not completely sure what that was about. Exploration, I guess.

[mickill]

Still not completely sure what that was about. Exploration, I guess.

Dude. I think that's something like getting a lapdance from your cousin and your sister.

[abcdefz]

A little bit, yeah. Kinda weird, but it was exciting for a bit until I wasn't sure if I was being humiliated or not.

[MC Moot]

I also learnt a lot from Judy Blume -especially 'Forever' and 'Are you there God, its me Margaret'

Nancy Drew suddenly became VERY dull

Tru dat!....Hilarious!....I read all my sister Judy Blume books!..."Tiger Eyes" is the one I recall the most....:p

[mickill]

My parents never talked to me about sex. I sorta stumbled upon everything I needed to know (or what I thought I needed to know) about it over the years. As kids, my friends and I traded bits of of information and swiped the occasional porn video from wherever. I first found my dad's Hustler/Penthouse stash when I was around five or six. I guess he must have figured that either my brother or I had been digging through it at some point because he moved it soon after. Then I found it again. So he moved it again. And again. And again. This continued for like 10 years. He never talked to me about it or asked me to stop or anything, so it just went on. Then I eventually moved out. And now I know how to make babies.....really well.

[abcdefz]

I'm wondering now how I knew about masturbation. Nobody ever told me about it or anything.

I can understand the impulse to rub it or jerk it, but how did I know to keep going until something happened? I didn't know what an orgasm
was or what semen was or anything.

[MC Moot]

I'm wondering now how I knew about masturbation. Nobody ever told me about it or anything.

I can understand the impulse to rub it or jerk it, but how did I know to keep going until something happened? I didn't know what an orgasm
was or what semen was or anything.

I do believe for me it started out by dry humping my bed and then I took it to the shower,where I recall almost passing out while working it all out....a fantastic course of discovery....:D

[abcdefz]

All I know is that, in fourth grade, my mom got a job. This gave me about a half an hour window at home alone after school, and I was ready
for it and so, so grateful. (y)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Oh my, this thread is hilarious.

'God's Glue'....hahahahaha :D

And TP, Judy Blume!! What a blast from the past. Forever was THE book to read when i was at school. A battered copy was passed from girl to girl in my entire year i reckon. I also learned everything i needed to know about snogging from Jackie and My Guy Magazine. :o

[Lindsey_1535]

never had a sex talk
never even had a period talk
which is weird cause my mom hosts passion parties
crazy person

[Freebasser]

"Wrong hole, son"

[Jitters]

They never told me anything.

I always feel like going back to them joking about never getting a sex talk, but then I remember that would be weird.

[Lyman Zerga]

i think i saw porn before my mum told me anything about sex

and we never sat down to have 'teh talk', she just told me that stuff bit by bit when that topic randomly came up or when i had a question

and i really dont mind talking about sex with my mum aslong as she doesnt tell me too detailed facts about her own experiences/likings

[DeeJayZap]

My parents discovered that my Tricolore (french textbook) contained several rather graphic amendments to the 'parts of the body' section (not made by me I hasten to add) and then asked me if I knew what the terms meant. I think I said sort of. And then my mum handed me a book and said if you have any questions to talk to her. I read and didn't want to ever discuss anything EVER AGAIN. I think I was about 14 or so.our class is actually using that textbook...

[ms.peachy]

I just realised I wrote the title to this thread with an exclamation instead of a question mark, which makes it look kinda like I'm a little over-excited about this question. Ha, silly me.

[Waus]

All I know is that, in fourth grade, my mom got a job. This gave me about a half an hour window at home alone after school, and I was ready
for it and so, so grateful. (y)

I was just scrolling up really fast and I saw "mom" "job" and panicked for a minute.

[Lyman Zerga]

I just realised I wrote the title to this thread with an exclamation instead of a question mark, which makes it look kinda like I'm a little over-excited about this question. Ha, silly me.

not excusable though

[trailerprincess]

I remember reading the problem pages of Jackie and asking my mum why all the people writing in kept getting upset about sleeping with boys. 'Surely when you're tired, you can't help where you fall asleep?'

[ms.peachy]

not excusable though
don't hassle me man, I'm still traumatised over the whole turd-in-the-sink thing.

[Lex Diamonds]

I just knew from TVs or books or whatever when I was like 6. I never had a talk or anything, at least not that I remember.

Mind you, high grade drugs have destroyed most of my childhood memories forever. (y)

[Yetra Flam]

I had and was around animals a lot as a kid. And i knew what they did to have babies. So i suppose i put two and two together and figured that's what humans do too.
I think that's a pretty non-embarrassing way to find out about sex.

[TurdBerglar]

i have another one


me and the neighbor girl use to pretend we were dogs all the time. again this is in the 8 year old time period. she had an older sister that was maybe a year or two older than us. she was one of those very early developers. you know like those little girls that have a full set of tits at age ten. well anyways were all pretending to be dogs and since my friend's sister was the oldest she was the mommy dog and since puppies need to eat and puppies get their food from the mommy dog and since this particular mommy dog had tits... you can see were this is going.

we were actually simulating nursing on her tits while she laid on her side like an actually dog would. she still had her clothes on and shit but there were visible wet spots were we had been sucking on her tits. she got red all over and got all weird and left the room and didn't come back. me and the other girl just got up and played zelda like something weird just didn't actually happen.

[Yetra Flam]

yeah, that's enough from you.

[RobMoney$]

If this place starts getting overrun by a bunch of Pedo's in the next couple of days, I'm blaming it all on Turd.

[RobMoney$]

You could write a book,

Tales for Pedo's
by Turdberglar

[TurdBerglar]

when we all were a bit older this other girl in the neighborhood grew up without a mother and she was a massive tom boy. when she started to get tits she really didn't know what they were or how to behave with them. we'd be all hanging out at someone's house watching mtv or something and some half naked slut would appear and of course us guys would go crazy and make retarded comments. this girl would be like...there just boobies. what's the big deal! i have them and you don't do act like that around me! one of my dumbass friends said something along the lines of because it was of her not showing them off. so she took her shirt of and showed them to us all casual and shit. her poor hard working father. i feel sorry for him now. for like the next week or so she'd hang out with us without a shirt on. then we didn't see her for a little while. almost the whole summer. i guess someone squealed.

[TurdBerglar]

where the hell were all the fucking parents? christ, i grew up without a lot of supervision at all.

[adrockmelanie]

when i was 9 years old, my dad and younger sister were in bed with the flu, so my mom made them some soup and took me out to dinner for pizza. we came home and sat down at the kitchen table and she started asking me things.. trying to get an understanding of what i might have already known about the sexage. we ate cheese pizza and she drew little fallopian tube sketches and was totally comfortable about telling me. i kept asking questions and even though she was answering, she was pretty embarrassed when i'd say "WHAT? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?" or whatever... i still laugh when i remember the end of our talk:

right before i got up from the table, i sighed and was like "well that's gross. i'm glad humans don't have to do that!" (throughout the talk, i was asking questions about puppies so that's what i assumed we were talking about, i guess.) she kind of laughed and was like "um. yeah they do, sweetie."

hahahaha.

[Loppfessor]

The more of these stories the more thankful I am that my mom was so open and honest with us bout sex. It was a fairly common topic in my house. She was always very adament about safe sex and such. I think it's cus she had us at such a young age and didn't want that to happen to us.

[adrockmelanie]

i have another one


me and the neighbor girl use to pretend we were dogs all the time. again this is in the 8 year old time period.


me and my sister and our cousins used to pretend we were dogs, too. no one ever sucked on anyone's boobies though.

[monkey]

my parents showed my brother and i a cartoon when i was... maybe 6 or 7? it was early. they always emphasized proper names for things and always made sure we knew to be comfortable with our naked bodies, but only one person was ever allowed to your private places, and that was yourself. i think they made that more poignantly clear - that if anyone ever touched us in the slightest, we HAD to protest, because certain places were not for anyone else's hands but our own.
i never felt uncomfortable talking about clinical sex stuff with my parents. i wont talk to them about specifics, and my mom likes to tell me to not be a whore.

[abcdefz]

I was just scrolling up really fast and I saw "mom" "job" and panicked for a minute.



Ah! -- so you've met my mom!