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Originally posted by ZTAngel
Well, that and of course my parents. Don't parents ever sit down with their kids anymore and talk to them about sex, puberty, and all the other stuff that made you all awkward and embarrassed when your parents discussed it with you? As much as I hated "The Talks", it kept me from having sex at 12. Wow, things have changed a lot in 10 years. Back when I was that age, I really didn't know of anyone who was having sex.
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My mom didn't really talk to me about anything. She gave me one of those "changing bodies" books when I was 10 and that was pretty much it. She made me read it myself. Any questions I had weren't answered until I started reading teen magazines. Health classes didn't really mean much, since it was mostly about periods. However, lots of my questions were answered about AIDS and other things when Magic Johnson announced that he's HIV+ There were lots of newspaper and magazine articles about AIDS and AIDS research. It was also around the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus, so I guess that added into it.