“When it came to the time for my parents to tell me about sex, erm, it was too late by then.”
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This video mentions growing up, parents, and sex education
I certainly don’t remember us having the archetypal birds and the bees talk. Erm... I don’t think anything was really mentioned.”
“When it came to the time for my parents to tell me about sex, erm, it was too late by then.”
“The only sex chat I’ve ever had with my mum occurred when I was about 17 and I’d just come back from a guy I was seeing…”
“We don’t have to sit there blatantly talking about sex all the time, but they know they can come to me, they can ask me anything.”
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I think the 1st time my parents ever gave me "The Talk" was after i told them i'd slept with a couple of people, they just said to me 'BE SAFE' that was about it!”
Posted by daniel on 19th Sep at 4:41PM (flag as inappropriate)
I never had the 'sex talk' from my parents OR my school; I got it all off my friends, who were far more savvy then I was.
In fact, the closest I came to the sex talk with my parents was when I was 16, and I was in a play called Junk (based on the book of the same name); my character had to give another character a condom, and seeing as I didn't know where the Family Planning Centre was at the time I went to Boots and bought a three-pack of Fetherlites. I told my mum, lest she find them accidentally and think I was boinking half the town (fat chance of that), who was relieved that I'd told her to say the least.
A few months later, while watching Corrie, mum asked me whether I still had those condoms. I said yes, to which she replied, "Good, I'd rather you weren't using them yet."
"What?"
"Well, I don't want you having sex just yet, if that's alright with you."
"It would be difficult, mum, seeing as I don't have a boyfriend."
"Right. Just checking."
A moment or two of silence, then my dad chips in with "They've got a 'use-by' date, you know."
Cringe.”
Posted by Olivia on 17th Sep at 1:43PM (flag as inappropriate)
my parents didn't ever mention sex i think they felt that school would teach me all i needed to know, but schools only cover one sexuality.”
Posted by Aden on 16th Sep at 8:43PM (flag as inappropriate)