Now that we're adults, we know all about the birds and the bees, but who did you learn it from? I don't recall ever being sat down by my parents to have the official talk — I learned about sex from my friends, their older siblings and from Mr. Cohen, my good looking sex ed teacher.
Sure, it's embarrassing for both the kids and the parents to talk about where babies come from, but in this day and age, it's imperative to be sexually educated at a young age. So ladies, do tell, did you get "the talk" from your parents when you were younger? If so, give us a reason to laugh and share your humiliating stories below!
Karen Millen
Rosato
Homebase
Yes I did!
1I remember it was like midnight and my dad was out of town and my mom brought me downstairs and we ate cookies and asked me what I thgouth it was and I told her I thoguht that it was when I guy licked a gilrs peepee (haha oh god) and then she really told me what it was and I laughed but she also gave me a book that was awesome and explained everything to me
bahahahahaha ashcwebb thats hilarious
2I dont think I ever had the talk with my parents... I think they kinda assumed we learned all about it in class... which we did... and we were taught at school and in Church that it was for marriage... (hehe)... so my parents kinda just left it alone...
Although one time I was out with my parents eating dinner and my mom asked my dad and I very loudly "What does blow job mean?"
It was fun explaining things to mom...hahaha
I never had the talk with my parents! My Catholic grade school started sex ed in 2nd grade, and I think they figured that we got everything from that.
3My parents never gave me the talk- I learned all I know from school and personal informants...lol
4Ash, that was classic!
my mother started explaning sex it at an early age. i was the girl on the block asking the other kids why they called it a peepee or whatever. I got all the kids calling it penis and vagina. hahahahahahahaha some parents were not happy about that. they should have been.... nothing wrong with correct words for your anatomy.
5i wrote a poem about "making love" in the fourth grade and mom found it and sat me down--i'd know about "it" casually since the first grade. she's a pharmaceutical sales rep, and her latest product was the female condom (granted, this was 1994ish) so she had all sorts of handy visual aids. i wanted to DIE.
6i think i got it from my mum. my dad doesnt discuss sex with me! my mum is very open about those kinds of things..always wants the details. but i rememebr i burst out laughing when she told me. i also got a lot of it from sch and friends!
7Yes, I had the talk in 5th grade. My hubby just recently had the talk with my stepson that's in 6th grade. I would rather have my children come and ask me than find out misinformation from friends.
8Haha well my mom never got the talk when she was younger, so she a made a point of sitting each of us down and telling us.
9I never got the talk. Learned from school/friends/TV.
I'm not sure how to go about having a talk with my daughter that is now going on 8. Her dad is SO over protective about stuff like this. Anytime we are watching anything on TV that even mentions the word sex he freaks out.
I had bought a book a while back when we first had her with intentions of reading it to her one day. It's called "Mommy Laid An Egg." It's to teach kids about sex. She found it one day and asked him to read it and he didn't know what it was. He came out of her room practically running and quietly yelling "this book is dirty!!!!" It was so funny, but I thought he was going to die of embarrassment. He said he started to read it and it was OK and then he got to the pictures and kept skipping through really fast and just played it off.
It's a great book if anyone is looking for a funny but very factual way to explain things to a young one. Great for Expectant parents with young children asking questions!
10Yup. They did it when we started Sex Ed at Catholic school, it was required that it be combined home and school ed.
I don't think it's embarrassing at all.
11I never had the talk...I learned it all on the night of our end of the year fieldtrip
12You know what? I honestly cannot remember...
13I dont think so, but I'm not sure
When I was like 4 or 5 in daycare, we went on a field trip to the library and the daughter of one of the daycare employees showed me a sex ed book and told me all about it. When I went home after daycare I think I told my parents all about what I had learned. Needless to say, they were horrified. I'm sure there was some sort of talk following that, but I don't really remember much of it.
I remember grasping the concept early on, but we had "Family Life" class in like 4th grade and they taught us all the details including menstruation and sperm/egg stuff.
14My "talk" was lame, if it would even be considered "the talk."
I was going into my junior or senior year of HS, and my mom, aunt, and grandma. I don't know how it got started, but I was told that if I was going to have sex I should be on the pill. I laughed and told them that I already knew all of this stuff and that condoms were more important than the pill because they protected against STDs...and they were like, yah, that too.
15Our school taught us sex ed in the 4th grade, thus saving our parents (and us kids) from the uncomfortable one-on-one sex talk.
16I don't think my mom ever gave me a "sex talk," so to speak, though she did give me like 4 books when I was a preteen explaining things. But I think I'd figured it out myself before that and a video in 7th grade "Human growth and development" confirmed my suspicions. Though, in first grade or so, I thought sex was when a man and a woman just saw each other naked.
17I remember asking when I was about 6, and my mom described objects like the daddy has the seed to and the egg that the mommy has...I remember wondering if the mom stuck the egg up inside her and the dad kept seeds in his pocket! But that was before I had L.A.M.O. (Learning About Myself and Others) in elementary school!
18k8, I've had to explain certain terms to my mom too! The look on her face is so funny. She had never even seen a Playgirl magazine, until I bought one & showed her. That was a riot.
I didn't get the talk from my parents. My sister filled me in & then I learned the technical side of it in sex-ed at school.
19no talk for me, my parent's were delinquent in this field
strangely enough my best friend's uncle gave us a thorough talking to when we were tweens. it left a huge ick factor for us.
20Nope definitely no talk about it at our house!
I think my mom is waiting for my wedding night to explain it!
I did learn about it through sex ed in 6th grade and then details from friends and stuff.
21No, never, thank God. Everything I learned was from learned from my peers, mom's old med school texts, and experience.
Funny thing, I will be having religious pre-marriage counseling and I heard our priest is super liberal and discusses sex in the couple and group sessions. So, I guess I'm not saved from an uncomfortable experience, joy!
22I really have NO memory of having a sex talk with anyone. I think I knew that sex meant babies when I was like 9. Yeah....maybe it was so traumatic for me that I blocked it out???
23like most of you, I do remember sex ed classes starting up in 5th grade, but I think in 5th and 6th grade it was just "This is what happens when you get your period. This is a pad. Here's how to put it on your underwear." And then in 8th grade we actually watched a video of a live birth. BLEH.
24I got the period talk in like 4th or 5th grade because I told my mom that my sister and her had secrets from me. Ha. Then in school we had the nurse come in and showed us a really cheesy video and then stuck maxi pads to her blazer and forgot they were there. When it was over she walked into the hallway with them still stuck on. Ha. I don't recall getting a sex talk, though.
25Yeah, my mom sat me down with a book for kids. There were illustrated birds and bees talking about how the deed was done. Then she got to the part with human pictures. I cried and ran away. LOL! My poor mom. But she was always really great about explaining everything to me, not making me feel weird and making me feel comfortable with any questions I had to ask her. My dad too, although he played a much smaller role. I think it's imperative in this day and age that kids learn about this stuff young. I don't know why I was so traumatized when I learned about it- I think most of it was the fact that I realized the only reason I'm alive is because my mom and dad had to have sex, and for a kid that's GROSS!
Hell, the idea of my parents having sex is still gross to me, lol.
26Yes, I did! I was about five years old, and it started out in the worst possible way: "Most everyone has sex eventually. Animals have sex, you'll have sex someday, and your dad and I even have sex."
AHHHH! I was so young!
27No-- my mom gave me a book when I got my period and then I was sent to a church abstinence class (at 11).
Then when I left for college she said "don't get pregnant and don't get any diseases either. you know how to do that right?"
Yeah, thanks mom and dad.
28LOL love it Ash... i never got the talk either. I just got the talk about going on the pill cause when i had a long term boyfriend i guess my mother just assumed... but naaah school taught all... in grade nine i was a lost soul though... i knew what sex was but definitely no idea about four-play lol oh good 'ol highschool.
29No, never got the talk from parents, but I learned everything from my friend's mom in 4th grade. We didn't have sex ed until 8th grade in my school! Way too late. Everyone had had sex by then; there was even a pregnant girl in my class!
30Pretty much ran away every time.
31I remember I was about 9 years old and I was outside playing with my brothers and my guy friends when my mom told me I had to come inside. She asked me what sex was and I said it was kissing and hugging. I knew that there was more, but I was too embarrassed to say anything. Then my mom HAD to say "It's when a man INSERTS his penis into a woman's vagina" I remember being like AHHHHH get me out of here. I also did not look her in the eye at all the entire time. I think it is important to introduce the sex talk at a really young age before the child can get any notions about it. That's how I'll do it with my kids...even as young as 2 or 3 and just introducing the proper terms for the genitals.
32I kind of taught myself. I watched a lot of bad cable tv at a reeeally young age, lol, and I also got this book from my parents talking allll about sex and what happens to the body, including everything, even how homosexual guys have sex. I loved to read, and I totally preferred that over having a weird sex talk with my parents.
33My mom gave me the sex talk right before I went away to college! She started talking about condoms and I had to stop her and let her know that this is much too late! Many years too late!
34i guess i never really got a formal talk but my parents always answered any questions-but i will say this: my mom thought i was a virgin when i was in i guess my first serious relationship-well i wasn't-but that didn't stop her from telling me 'andrea, your first time will hurt, you'll prolly bleed and don't count on having an orgasm'. just like that. i think it took every ounce in me NOT to bust out laughin in her face bc i know she was just tryin to talk to me like woman to woman. but hysterical
35My mother prepared me for getting my period, but I learned about sex the way all nice girls do - on the streets!
36My mom gave me "the talk" in the fifth grade, right before we started learning about it in school. I was quite naive, because I still thought sex was some special kind of kissing at that point. I'll never forget my mom saying to me, "No, honey, you can't get pregnant when you kiss your grandpa." I was mortified. I mean, I knew THAT. It was a SPECIAL KIND of kissing, duh!
I am grateful that she sat me down and talked about it, though, because when she told me, I almost didn't believe her, it was so gross sounding. I literally had no clue that's what it was all about, and if I'd heard it for the first time in class, well, it probably would have been much more embarrassing.
37I learned about it from my friend and I read it in a book when I was about 11. My mom was really overprotective so she was mad that I found out so soon and that she didn't get to be the one to tell me.
38I didn't get the talk from my parents. I think my mum recruited my older cousin to find out what i knew. Most of what i learnt was from her.
We've sat down with my nan and had a sex talk lol, it's funny the stuff she never knew, my poor grandad
39My mom told me when I was about 10. She wanted me to know way before I got my period. She's always been straightforward with me.
40The closest I got to any kind of sex talk was a few days after my 18th birthday, when my mum told me that since I was an adult now but still living at home that if I wanted to sleepover at my friend's houses I should let her know that I was staying at a friends instead of coming home.
41i got the puberty talk from my mum around 4th grade, but i think the rest was covered in sex ed in 5th & 6th grade.
42My dad had "the talk" with me when I turned 16, we on the way to the supermarket in his car. He told that I was at a "Responsible age" blah blah.. And that sex is normal but I shouldn't be forced into it ect ect.. He ended the conversation with if I needed any boys "sorting out" I knew who I could go to. Lol.
43Little did he know at the time I had already been in a sexual relationship for over a year. =/
no real sex talk for me...my parents got me a video from the video store when I was very young called "where do babies come from?" I recall my dad being very against it. The rest I learned from stealing my sister's binder when she was taking that sex ed class.
44In 9th grade, we watched some almost pornographic video in my biology class where they stuck a fiber optic camera in a woman as a guy ejaculated inside her...now that was traumatic. I can't even imagine what it was like for the guys.
I didn't get the talk... I think I learned from sneaking romance novels off of my grandmother's shelf.
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