How old were you when you got the "talk"

[Dionysus]

I don't really remember, but I remember it was early! Like my late elementary or middle school years.

[adpiucf]

Reading this thread got me to thinking... I was one of those who got a book but no talk from my parents. We had sex ed in school of course, but my parents never really told me their stance on premarital sex, and we never talked about waiting for the right person or respecting yourself... except for the mom talk right before I'd be heading out for a date, "If he tries to touch you and you're not comfortable, you say no!" LOL. But.. Sometimes I wonder if I would've been such the wild child in college if we'd had that talk. Not like it matters now-- LOL-- but it does make me think how I'll be around my children someday, if and when I become a mom.

Any other funny stories about sex ed?

[Lady Pi Phi]

I never got the talk...although my mother realized that we never had the talk and tried to give it to me at 21.


I did however get sex education classes at school when I was 9, so does that count as the talk?

[LilStarAngelOne]

i dont think i ever actually got said talk .... definetly the one about my period but i dont think sex was one of those talk .... does snecking in episodes of red shoe diaries count as learning about sex?

[SigK_Bama]

I never got "the talk" either. When I was in 5th grade we had to have our parents sign a form allowing us to watch a sex-ed movie, so I guess my mom considered that my lesson. I know my grandmother gave me a book once and then my dad bought a book by Judy Blume and just put it on his bookshelf. Maybe he just assumed I would pick it up and read it? They never really told me anything that would be considered helpful in regard to puberty, I just figured it out on my own as I went along.

[James]

I had access to pay channels as a small child. The talk would have been redundant.

However, I do remember my father telling me that wearing a condom felt like taking a shower with your shoes and socks on . . .

I am not sure how old I was under 10 I believe. . .

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My mother sat me down the day after I turned 10 and tried to have the talk. I ran out of the room screaming that I didn't want to know.

About a year later, we had the talk. I was finally ready. I actually learned a lot of accurate information in the playground from other children. A boy told my sister and me where babies come from in explicit detail when I was in kindergarten. We were positive that he was lying. It just seemed so gross.

[PiLove]

This is a funny thread. I never really had the "talk." LOL, My older sister got that "What's happening to me?" book and I read it after she did. My mom also rented "Where do babies come from?" cartoon. I got my "real" education from friends and relatives.

[BetteDavisEyes]

JEEZ! Hispanic mothers (at least mine) still believe that I don't know what it's all about. Good Hispanic girls find out what happens in the bedroom only after they're married. Bad girls find out beforehand.