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When you were a kid, did you and your parents ever have...The Talk? Lol.

I'm pretty sure that my mom and dad sat me down when I started to hit puberty.
elafina · 36-40, F
My mom would be like "it's a sin if you do things before marriage and the apocalypse talks about how people are tortured in hell" and my dad would be in his car around the city trying to find me or my sisters 😆 wild times
morrgin · F
@elafina I asked my mom when I was young if she had sex before marriage. She said it's always best to wait for marriage before having sex. I was confused because I felt my question was never answered. I'd ask her again and get the same answer.
elafina · 36-40, F
@morrgin sounds like a yes to me 🤭🤫
Torsten · 36-40, M
my mother tried to give me and my brother "the talk" when i was 19 and he was 18. It got very awkward for her when we started asking her the weirdest questions just to mess with her
Musicman · 61-69, M
Nooooo! I learned about it from friends at school.
@Musicman Read my own comment.
GovanDUNNY · M
@Musicman you must have a long memory
When I was 11, my dad & stepmom just told me "hey... You better use condoms. We're too young to be grandparents right now".
I was still a virgin so I was just like "okay guys 🤷 will do".

The next big talk they had with me was when I was 12 & they told me "hey... Don't ever get married. Well... just make sure neither of you are in debt because you don't wanna get married to someone, find out they're in debt, then not be able to buy a house together until you work it off".

I always remembered both of those things so it's helped... the condom thing I didn't 100% stick to but I'm way better at it now that I have a baby 😂
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
My dad told me when I was about 12. He was nervous af. Meanwhile we had learned everything in school the year before
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
The one at school was very scientific the one at home was from a drunkard that used a lot of cuss words.
cd4259 · 61-69, M
Not so much the talk as a demonstration.....pm me for more
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
I was at boarding school for most of the year, so those tasks were delegated to teachers.

When it was time to talk about "the birds and the bees" I was very romantically attached to my female room mate. The Talk had to be slightly edited for our benefit 😅
morrgin · F
No talks ever.
PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F
The only version of the talk I ever had was from the sex ed classes, and even that was limited. Movies with squiggly lines filled in the rest.
GovanDUNNY · M
No way 😳 I'd have died of embarrassment, old Scottish Presbyterian ways🤣
Musicman · 61-69, M
@GovanDUNNY Are you still a Presbyterian?
GovanDUNNY · M
@Musicman Never was ,my dad was and mother is catholic ,the mind boggles at the thought of getting the talk from either of them 🤣
meggie · F
No I learnt from other kids, a brief puberty film shown at school and uncle Otto's magazines we raked out from under the bed.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Yes, at 17 before I went to my then bf at New Year's Eve. 😆

Other than that, we had many talks, just not what would you expect. 😆
Never. I learned from SexEd in school, and from my friends talking about it.
Morvoren · F
It was just with mum, and it was more a check to see what school had told me.
pentacorn · F
my mother explained the detailed schematics around age 9 or 10
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
Talk? What talk? 🤯
GovanDUNNY · M
@Justmeraeagain you still dont know dont you
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
Nope. School did all the talkin'
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
No, at 16 I met Lorelie
Well, they answered any questions I had. And my school, for the first time, allowed rudimentary sex ed classes (1968), in a Catholic school. Possibly because many of the kids’ parents were having babies. I had classmates with ten and twelve siblings. Very basic; we were in classes separated by gender and upcoming physical changes were discussed. Then we were taught about reproduction ("when a man and his wife love each other…"). We received an archdiocese-approved âge appropriate booklet, and I took it home and reviewed it with the folks.
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@bijouxbroussard Oh, I remember sex-ed during health class in 10th grade. They did not hesitate to show us some of the graphic stuff from what I remember like the effects of various STDs.
@SubstantialKick They still weren’t showing anything graphic when I was in high school. We had "Family Life" classes, where you learned how to change diapers, prepare basic meals, (if you were a girl), find a job (if you were a guy) and both genders were taught about balancing a checkbook. When you consider that kids were still getting married right out of high school, it made sense.
Coralmist · 41-45, F
I don't recall it ever. Nothing on sex, dating, boys, love... :(
DDonde · 31-35, M
empanadas · 31-35, M
No my parents were just like you will figure it out
Just like any other American Gen X kid, the scrambled Playboy channel, Porky's, and Stripes, as well as the occasional nudie mag the one kid always snuck out of his bachelor uncle's room.
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