Did your parents ever give you 'the talk'?

Never did. Probably never will. They never exposed me to it, but they knew that I found out the definition and stuff from school.
 
Emm... It was Actually pretty awkward listening to your mother talk about your boyfriends junk when he's IN THE NEXT ROOM.... and the fact that we already knew all that stuff.. you know.. being guys and everything..
 
The talk I received was about as helpful as advice telling you not to stick your fingers in a meat grinder. You know, unless you were cleaning it. Then, only for a few seconds. After that, you're just on vacation.

In hell.
 
Nope. I heard about it from school, mostly from other kids, but some from class. Hell, even my sister gave me a basic sex-ed talk, but never my parents.

To this day, I have no idea why. o_O
 
When I was 3-almost-4, my mother got pregnant with my younger brother. Instead of feeding me a stork story or saying babies pop out of thin air, my parents bought me a book and read it with me.
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The cover looks harmless, right? Well, it's essentially picturebook porn. XD; Inside it goes into great detail as to how sex works, how babies grow inside the womb, and what happens when a baby is born. And the kicker? The "plot twist" they use to get the husband and wife (or boyfriend/girlfriend, I don't think it specifies) to sleep together is makeup sex. I mean, it doesn't say that's what it is, but when I reread the book (I still have it somewhere), they have a big argument and then the next page they're kissing and then suddenly they're in bed and SURPRISE THIS IS HOW BABIES ARE MADE.

I had another book which made sure to also mention that people have sex for fun and then went on to show some cartoon-y and rather odd positions. The only ones I remember were on a swing (like a normal playset swing) and on a bouncy ball--both of which sound like positions/places only a sexual deviant would have sex in. It seemed totally normal and whatnot to me then but whenever I remember its existence, I die a little inside wondering how my parents thought buying it was a good idea. Even describing it is super awkward! Unfortunately, I no longer have this one. :P

You'd think that this would have traumatized me as a child or something but... I was actually thrilled to know how babies were made. Apparently the first thing I did when I went back to school the next day was teach all my classmates. It was kindergarten. (Or pre-school... they were in the same room, iirc, so I taught everyone!)
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My dad certainly wins points for creativity...he used a hardcore pr0n site as a visual aid when he gave me the sex talk.

It has had the unfortunate side-effect of giving me a lifelong repulsion to female anatomy. >_>
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omg lol
 
A friend and I watched a movie that we shouldn't have been watching, when we were like.. four. xD; Other than that, my family never really talked with me about it until grade school, where the teachers start the sex ed. class periods. After that I went home, and was all "Guess what we learned about today!".

THEN my parents figured it was okay to tell me more about it.

Plus, I'd been in the room to see my mom's romance movies, with occasional soft-core love scenes.
So I knew what it was to an extent.


Also, I remember some classmates and I looking up sexual terms in the Dictionary, and giggling at them.

I specifically remember the best moment of my grade school years, being a guy friend of mine singing "Nick-Nick-Nick Nick-Nick-Nick-Nick-Nickafllopian!" When the teacher mentioned the Fallopian Tubes during the female anatomy lesson. My childhood was ruined in those three seconds.
 
My mom and I did talk about it a few times, but most of what I know about sex, I learned from either the sex-ed classes we had throughout elementary school or the kids on the playground (which, seeing as we were in elementary school, made me wonder how they came across such detail about sex and sexual slang at that age). The sex-ed classes were awkward to sit through, though; you could totally tell the teachers were awkward having to explain the birds and the bees to us and that just made us feel even more uncomfortable.

Not that my parents were reluctant to tell me, I just never asked so it wasn't brought up a lot, haha.
 
You wonder how kids on the playground learn about such things and tell you? Yeah, well, in my neck of the woods... I was kinda the kid that informed everyone. I was the kid that ruined Santa Claus for everyone, taught everyone what sex was, what "gay" actually meant, etc. Having a very liberal upbringing kinda makes you... informed early on... and I was very social as a child. :D

As for when I learned what it was, I really couldn't tell you. I didn't really know any nuts and bolts about it, but I've always known the male anatomy went into the female anatomy and that's how babies are made. As hard as I try, I can't remember exactly where I first learned that. Everything else I learned about sexual things I learned from a childhood best friend who was a little over a year older than me as well as the school bus. I don't care what you say, the bus was the place you learned about and participated in smut.

So in a way, they never really had to give me the talk. They let me learn naturally. Though my mom always said I could come to her if I ever had any questions or just wanted to talk about things. Never really did, but it was nice to know she cared enough back then. Funny that they never thought to teach me about puberty though... that caught me off guard. XD
 
Haha no not really. :P When I was three I asked my mom how there was a baby in her stomach and how it got there, and she told me God put it there. :P

I went to a Catholic school for most of my life, so I had a very basic understanding of it. In grade 8 I ended up switching over to a public school, and boy the health classes there were brutal, and I lost my innocence! XD
 
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As for when I learned what it was, I really couldn't tell you. I didn't really know any nuts and bolts about it, but I've always known the male anatomy went into the female anatomy and that's how babies are made. As hard as I try, I can't remember exactly where I first learned that.
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This. Seriously, I didn't know how I knew it, but I probably knew it because of my friends back in elementary. I remember huddling together and talking about sexual stories, ofcourse back then, I didn't know anything about it and was just curious, though I remember that we were only just talking about simple stuffs like 'putting his thingy into her thingy'. In the same grade, I also remember some of the kids in my bus talking about sex and searching for sexual stories in newspaper. One even printed out a story about incest - I remember that it's about an older brother tricking her little sister about giving him a... er, blow occupation. (I could tell you some stories about what my classmates talked about or BROUGHT, but I'll stop right here.) Though some of the terms I learn from, I regret to inform you, are in anime.

My parents never gave me the talk but they're very open about it. One time, when my sister was reading a book by Judy Blume, my mother started talking about masturbation! I had to cut it off to prevent my sister from corrupting her mind.

Tl;dr I mostly learned from my classmates in ELEMENTARY school. Lesson: elementary school students have the dirtiest mind.
 
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I had a friend in year three who used to show me and my friends all the dirty posters and magazines his brother has lol. And some certain items... So yeah I learned in year 3 mostly.
 
Lol, my method was through the internet o__o I was literally 12[or younger] and asking 'what is this?' Thankfully my dad is convinced he already gave me the talk and he just forgot like half the stuff he does.

Guys, the trick is to give children a sort of 'preview' of the talk like when they're in kindergarden. If parents don't set the concrete fast and correctly of course children won't want the talk because they'll already know in one of three ways: Magazines, Friends, or Internets.
 
I was never given the talk. Rather, I found out through school, friends, etc. :(

... but not like I wanted to be given it either. XD;
 
My parents didn't bother with sitting me down and having to properly explain it.

Instead, I learned it all from the internet and friends.
 
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