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The birds and the bees

PearlyPearly Posts: 345 The Mix Regular
Where did you get the best sex education? Was it from school, your parents, or did you simply get to see your mate having sex in a park? For one of our vox poppers, that's exactly how he found out :blush:

The birds and the bees
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think my mum sat me down and told me. I remember yelling at my friend in the park 'I KNOW WHERE YOU CAME FROM' only to be ushered and moved on by my mum. awwh
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I really can't remember how I came to know 'the birds and the bees', so I guess it was a combination of from my friends and magazines such as cosmopolitan and company, like one girl mentioned. Sex ed at school wasn't especially helpful I don't think. Our PSE lessons mainly consisted of drumming in the message YOU MUST USE PROTECTION and DON'T TAKE DRUGS or the world will end basically :rolleyes:
  • PearlyPearly Posts: 345 The Mix Regular
    I was given one of those cartoon books called 'Where do I come from' and then My Dad explained it by using dogs as examples. The book said an orgasm feels like being tickled by a feather!?!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    From my Mum and my Step Dad when they first got together. They were always at it like rabbits. My Mum is really noisy too which was really disturbing.

    Aged 12, I walked into my Mum's room to ask her for something and I went "what are you doing under the covers Mum?" :blush: Her reaction was "get out! get out!". I was quite behind with the what is sex thing back then :o
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I dunno, I think friends mostly. I did not have much sex talk by my parents I suppose, because in my younger years I was more busy ruining things and experimenting with fragile or dangerous tools or whatever.

    eta: There was actually never much doubt how children are made. Either I never asked myself the question (and noticed I didn't know), or I just knew... It's long time ago, cant remember.

    eta2: oh my god, I remember this children book who told you all that. It was in english, I think... My sister had it and it was very graphic... definitely on the index in the US... taught me a lot tho.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    mates mainly i think, and teen magazines (that are a complete rip off lol), by the time we got PSE lessons i think i mainly new it all...
    i guess then boyfriends and stuff taught me things lol and my mom asked if i needed a chat about it and said if i get pregnants its my fault as i said i knew it all so yea. lol
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I don't actually remember anyone telling me. I probably got most of it from magazines.

    The only proper sex education i had was when i was 15/16 and i didn't pay attention cos i already knew what they were talking about. I only perked up to answer the quizzes :hyper:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mainly school then magazines, books, friends.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I remember asking my mum the question that every parent hates. She said that you make babies with a special hug. She didn't look best pleased when i asked if I could give my brother a special hug. :yeees:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sex ed at school (which was crap) and my mum. I swear I've learnt more in my child care lessons (we're with Year 10s on a Thursday and they've had to do about contreception and stuff) than I ever did at school.
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    It's been in waves for me... First there was a book I found when I was 5-6, that explained how babies are made in simple terms. Then there was school (at 7-8 I think), afterwards more detailed stuff at school (at about 13-14) and finally a book I read at about 16 which focused more on sex and less on reproduction (contrary to most things before then). That's all I know so far.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Before there was Richard & Judy and other crap day time TV Porgrammes - they used to show programmes for schools during the day which schools were meant to video tape and show to their pupils

    So one day I was sick at home from school and there was all these naked people on TV during the day - and the programme was exmplaining where babies come from.. :blush:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My mum never really had a proper long coversatin with me about it, and sex ed at school was not extremely helpful lol!

    I got most of it from friends and magazines.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My mum answered a few questions, but most of it was from friends/book/magazines. Sex ed wasnt amazing at the schools I went to.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I don't know how I found out. My mum overheard me and my friend saying we wanted to 'sex luke' when I was about 7 or something. She asked me what sex was.. I told her it's "when a boy and a girl lay ontop of eachother and fishy kiss."
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Cartoon book by Babette Cole, When Mummy laid an Egg (or something to that effect), when I was fairly young. Then a 'Facts of Life' book, front bit was all about inherited characteristics, twins and then the back was the more 'interesting' bit. (Both from parents).

    Also watched some ancient videos at school.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oooo I learnt it all from this book! Finally found it

    childhoodbookbl8.jpg
    :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Awww....good 'ol Claire Rayner!!! An Aunty to a generation.......:lol:
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Rachael wrote: »
    Oooo I learnt it all from this book! Finally found it

    childhoodbookbl8.jpg
    :p
    Oh yeah, I must have read that too (but it's not the book I mentioned in my other post).
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hey, I remember that book! I'm not sure where my sex education came from... I coud have asked my parents and they wouldn't have been embarrassed to say or anything, but I think by the time I wanted to know finer details, I was too embarrassed myself to ask them.

    I think most of it came from those playground games, you know the ones about pencils and sharpeners and lines and circles? That must have happened in your primary schools too!

    Mila
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rachael wrote: »
    Oooo I learnt it all from this book! Finally found it

    childhoodbookbl8.jpg
    :p

    Me too :hyper:

    I also had lots of chats with my Mum about it,. SHe used to be a youth worker so she was totally comfortable talking with me and my sister about that kind of thing. I remember a comedy incident when my sister was 5 (I was 4) when she called really loudly in the bakery "MUMM? Whats a condom?" Mum said she would tell us when we got home, and sure enough she did.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think I learned quite early, sex education the only thing I learnt was about a condom really. Oh, and what an orgasm was, I'd heard the word but asking my dad, he went bright pink and said I already knew and was trying to embaress him. :confused:

    He also told me (when I asked about erections, aged about 7) that it happened because of magic, you had to wish it. I believed that for quite a long time actually...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rachael wrote: »
    Oooo I learnt it all from this book! Finally found it

    childhoodbookbl8.jpg
    :p
    I had that book too!

    We were shown the yr 7 sex ed video by accident in yr 4...
  • SkiveSkive Posts: 15,282 Skive's The Limit
    A number of different ways. Porno mags, my mates and there older brothers and sisters, my parents to some degree.
    I was pretty clued up on it before I went to secondary school.
    The only thing I learned at school was STI's.
    Weekender Offender 
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Porn films all the way for me dad some wicked ones i was about 11 when i started watching them and i wish i could watch them again they was the best! Did have abit of a shock when i came across a vibrater once want to shure what it was for!! :chin:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rachael wrote: »
    Oooo I learnt it all from this book! Finally found it

    childhoodbookbl8.jpg
    :p

    :yes: I had that. It described sex as a 'grown up cuddle' so thats what I thought it was for ages! It also had a very strange picture of a baby peeping out before it was born :crazyeyes
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My parents have never really spoke to me about it. Found out most stuff through friends, the playground, sex ed, magazines.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I never had 'the talk' Picked up about it through magazines and friends
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My parents never talked to me about sex. The only thing I learnt at school was how to put a condom on a banana. The sight of my PE teacher proceeding at the end of the lesson to eat the said banana is an image which still disturbs me to this day. I learnt most of what I know about sex from books.

    And yes, that did include one or two rather explicit magazines. When I first saw graphically what sex involved, I just went "I'm supposed to put my cock in there?!". I nearly vomited. :blush:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    stargalaxy wrote: »
    My parents never talked to me about sex. The only thing I learnt at school was how to put a condom on a banana. The sight of my PE teacher proceeding at the end of the lesson to eat the said banana is an image which still disturbs me to this day. I learnt most of what I know about sex from books.

    And yes, that did include one or two rather explicit magazines. When I first saw graphically what sex involved, I just went "I'm supposed to put my cock in there?!". I nearly vomited. :blush:
    :lol: and welcome back Danny :D
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