My parents openly talked to me about sex, but not about their own sex lives. In the last few years my mom has gotten more open about her sex life specifically, and I have to shut it down. Because really, ewwwwwwwww.

HELL NO! I learned it all on the streets!

I am alot more open with my children.

Ooops, I misread.
I thought the questions was open about sex in general reagrding education.

I am NOT open about my personal sex lives and glad my parents weren't! lol

Were MY parents open about their sex lives? HELL TO THE NO! [not that it would have helped anyway, everything I need to know I learn in books and magazines...not that I've a chance to try them out in practice, but still.]

...we weren't allowed to TALK anything about sex in my house period. They're strong believers in "if you talk about it, you put it in their heads that they can do it, and we don't want them doing that or thinking about sex" - I'm still not allowed to drink alcohol with the parent [I'm 23], and my dad JUST two weeks ago told me about a time when he was tipsy and still drove [as a reminder not to do it, of course].

If he EVER tells me about his sex life I think I'll have to cut my ears out or get a brain transplant...!!!!

without major details, I know my parents had a very satisfying and active sex life (my father passed away a few years ago, thus the "had"), but honestly I'd rather know my parents got down and dirty and were happy, in love, and together, than not happy in their relationship, or not together

Sometimes my dad says sex just to gross me out. It's fun for him and not for me.

I have the same relationship with my parents, mamasita... It's not like they've ever given me the over-share details, but I know they have sex, and I'm happy that they're happy still.

I think people are confused, the question is did your parents talk about thier sex lives, not did your parents talk to you about sex....

My parents sex lives were not my business, besides my mother was a virgin when she got married and so any stories of sex before marriage were null and void. I can understand how some peoples sexual pasts could be a cautionary tale for your kids but mostly its not appropriate to talk in detail about them in my opinion.

My parents were very open. Too open in fact.

No, thank god! My dad gets red in the face at some of my jokes, forget true stories! We have a mutual respect for the fact that neither of us wants to know certain things

I don't think anyone is confused there is just more than one way to answer the question.

Nope, my parents never spoke of their sex lives, and they don't talk about what they do now that they are divorced. I don't need to know, I don't care to know. If my mom ever decided to talk about her sex life with me, I may throw up.

I'm not confused about the question at all.

No, my parents didn't talk about their sex lives with us. Furthermore, there was NO talk of sex AT ALL. We're just not open people in general. I'm just now starting to learn about their lives in general before my brother and I were born and before they were married [at least my dad's, my mom passed away a while ago]. I mean, seriously I just heard an alcohol story a short while ago...what chance would any sex story have?

Not that I really want to hear about it...really would have to cut my ears out at that point!

My mom encourages me to be open with her, but I'm not really willing to as open as she expects me to. I'm 21, I figure I'm old enough to make my own decisions regarding who I do and do not sleep with. But there's no material right now anyway since I haven't slept with anyone, lol.

I think I would be embarassed to hell if my parents were open about it. I really can't even stand it when they tell dirty jokes around me! They say "Hey, you're old enough!" and I reply "yeah but I don't need to hear that from MY PARENTS!"

I think they just do it to see my reaction

nope my parents don't even talk about the subject, never brought it up at all.

My mom is a touch more open now that I am older and moved out but not much more open.

yeah my parents have never talked about their sex life and i don't want them too. i assume that since they're still married and sleep in the same bed every night, they're doing something, and whatever that is, is between them.

Since I moved out, my folks have gotten a more open about their sex lives, unfortunately. I'm the youngest, so it took me moving out to get them talking. But I DON'T want to hear it. Neither do my bros. And my dad is one dirty old man!

When I was younger, my mom gave me the Catholic 'don't do it or you're going to hell' version, and my dad gave me the feminist 'respect your body and be safe' version. And that was about as in depth as sex-talk got.

Well they were always very open about sex, about their sex life they start making comments when I was a teenager I always find it funny, I'm glad they have fun with each other after more than 30 years together, I didn't bother either, it is normal, if it wasn't for their sex I wouldn't be here in the first place, i don't find it ewwww either it is just the most old and natural thing in the whole world.

I'm right in there with mamasitamalita - I don't get details, but simply by virtue of being in their house occasionally as an adult, I know that they have an active sex life.

My parents got divorced when I was 9, and thankfully they never discussed their sex life while they were together. However, since they have split and things have been a little bitter between them, my mom has told me things about their sex life in order to make my dad look bad. For example, she told me that my dad never wanted oral sex from her because he thought she might accidentally bite it off. *shudders*

My parents were open about sex/their sex lives, but only when the information benefited me. So, it never really grossed me out or effected me badly - except when they told me I was conceived in the bathtub. That was weird.

Once when I was a kid I said something like "well, people over 40 don't have sex" and they both cracked-up laughing, so I knew they still did. But other than that one instance, THANK GOODNESS their sex life was never talked about..ewww

Now that I am older, and now that they have been divorced over 16 years, my mom will sometimes mention little remarks about my dad's lack of bedroom skills. They are friends, now, though, and I dont think she means it to be offensive, just perhaps informative? I dont know. It makes me a little uncomfortable, anways. LOL.

I am a somewhat conservative/private person anyways, and my mom has tried to go there in conversations and I absolutely have to stop her. I don't feel that it's necessary to hear about it from/talk about it with girlfriends, so I definitely don't need to hear about it from/talk about it with my mom.

I've heard my parents do it all the time. It has completely scarred me for life. They never discussed sex with me, nor do I ever want them to!

Neither parent EVER talked to me about sex. If I had asked my mom, she would have answered, but I knew it was an embarrassing topic for her, so I never did. My mom would actually get up and leave the room if we were watching a movie and a sex scene came on..she was so uncomfortable with it.

Had great sex education classes in junior high, very informative on many levels and truly they answered alot of my questions. Everything else came from girlfriends and boyfriends.

I have wonderful parents, but growing up with them really made me an advocate for sex ed in schools.

I walked in once. ONCE. The memory still makes me shudder.

You know, my brother never minded talking to my parents about sex. I did though. I felt annoyed.
My mother tried. Her mother never talked to her, so I guess so she thought I would want to talk about it. When she started that conversation up I changed the subject. She got so frustrated with me I thought she would explode. She was only trying her best but I really didn't want to hear it. I didn't want to read books either. I knew my sex life would be different from hers and I felt annoyed when she brought it up. Once when she said she enjoyed sex with my dad I responded, " Well thank God, you married him didn't you?" I guess it could have been worse, she could have been one of those types who said they just put up with it.

Hell no! I would've legally emancipated myself from them if they did

We just don't talk about that sort of thing. at all.

You people are horrible!
Your parents have just as much right to sex lives as you do!
If you do not want to hear it, just walk away, or change the subject.
Don't say you would get emancipated from them!
I lived with my mother, and she was very open about sex.
She never made me sit and listen to details of her own sex life,
but she made it known that sex was a lovely, and natural thing.
When I got my first boyfriend (who i lost my virginity to) she took me in for birth control and spoke to me about it like a friend, and equal, not a child.
Sex is a natural thing, whether your parents are having it or not,
it's their choice!

My parents were ABSOLUTELY NOT open about their sex lives at all! I'm sort of actually glad that they didn't!!!!!!! LOL!

Not at all. In fact, I just recently learned from an aunt that my dad was engaged to another woman before my mom. And they never talked to me about sex either, which is why I am an advocate of sed ed. I believe that ignorance leads to bad decisions in life.