JC learned about sex from a pop-up book? At six??

[lincolnkw]

Damn.

I was 11, my brother was 10. My mother explained to us, with hand gestures (you know the one) while my 16 year old sister watched. Cindy about pissed herself laughing when I corrected my mother. What? She gave us the wrong information about "insertion" and how easy it was. It needed to be corrected so that my brother had the right information.

I can remember my mother's face to this day. It was her fault, I had found their porn maybe a month or two prior. Wow,that was 24 years ago. And I came out to myself 21 years ago, and them 15 years ago. I feel old all of a sudden.

I am soo looking forward to the "talk" they will give my nephew, it should be happening this year. I hope I'm there, he's a handful to say the least. It should be entertaining.

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[claire.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I still remember learning about it from my mother when I was 9 (she'd first got her period at that age and was unprepared, and didn't want me to feel the same terror as she had). I stopped her and said "Let me tell you what I know and you can tell me what else I need to know after" So I talked about sex and pregnancy and the clitoris and the g-spot and anal sex and oral sex and homosexuality... And my mother was quite amused and amazed (and didn't know some of the stuff about the g spot, so I had to draw her a picture).

And you are old. And so am I ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dragon_/]

That is fantastic!! My experience was far less amusing and far more traumatizing. I was about four years old when I asked where babies come from, and instead oftelling me themselves, or just telling me they come out of mama's tummy and waiting to have the whole talk when I was older, they sat me down with a home-recorded copy of Nova's "The Miracle of Life." As I recall, I was terribly bored, had no clue what the hell the people on the television were talking about, and didn't even pay attention for most of it. But they made me watch it AGAIN when I was seven. Stil didn't really know what they were talking about, but I got the gist. But good God, it was awful. Have you ever seen that thing? ACK!! ::shudders at the memory:: My poor little four-year-old brain must have bee so confused. ::shakes head::

The only funny part is that when I asked about where babies come from, I was in Orchard with my dad and there was a guy stocking the shelves on that same aisle. Dad was embarrassed slightly, and the guy on the ladder kind of smirked amusedly, and my dad said "If you still want to know when we get home, I'll tell you then."

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

When my mom decided it was time for my "talk", she marched into my room while I was doing homework (I was in the 10th grade, by the way, which still strikes me as being several years too late for one's first "talk"), handed me a copy of the book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (but were afraid to ask), told me to read it, and said that if I had any questions, I should ask my father.

*headdesks*