Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?
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View Poll Results: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?
Yes 29 9.83% No 266 90.17%
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?No, my grandmother gave me a book explaining everything about the birds and the bees and gave me time and peace to study it myself alone.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?lol.. well from what i remember it was consensual on both their accounts. And if I remember it then they damn sure will remember it too.(Original post by ranbow99)
Awwh man, I feel sorry for the girl
I hope they don't remember that now!
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?I can vividly recall one of my childhood friends wondering where girls pee from and my childhood memories are mostly hazy at best, so I dare say they do remember it now.(Original post by ranbow99)
Awwh man, I feel sorry for the girl I hope they don't remember that now!
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?I never did. But I kind of gradually built up the knowledge through TV and internet. I can remember watching something on the television with my grandma many years ago and seeing this woman straddling a man. I was all
I had internet access at home, despite have parental controls on strict for some reason it didn't block Newgrounds or any of its XXX games. O_o
Finally my mum gave me a book about periods and sex etc.
Never had any sex ed at school though...
... Came out as a lesbian a few years ago. They don't teach that anywhere.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?No. I'm assuming I just picked it up from the playground/TV...
I went to a Catholic school, which didn't really do sex ed and only mentioned contraception to say that it wasn't 'allowed'
I never knew those American-esque condom-on-the-banana lessons happened over here.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?Frank's Adveeeeeentuuuuuuuuureeee!!!(Original post by Chickens_yeah)
I never did. But I kind of gradually built up the knowledge through TV and internet. I can remember watching something on the television with my grandma many years ago and seeing this woman straddling a man. I was all
I had internet access at home, despite have parental controls on strict for some reason it didn't block Newgrounds or any of its XXX games. O_o
Finally my mum gave me a book about periods and sex etc.
Never had any sex ed at school though...
... Came out as a lesbian a few years ago. They don't teach that anywhere.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?Well never really needed to really, if I had a question they'd answer it but I learnt most stuff through PSHE and peers etc. I remember in Year 5 we were given the talk on adolescence and they split the year group and at the time we all found it hilarious.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?No, my Mum took me and my best friend to a learning day in the local library where we spent the day giggling but somehow picked up enough information
I dread to think how awkward a conversation about sex would be with my mum (who as far as I'm concerned, as had sex once in her life :P )
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?My parents bought me a boot entitled 'How my body works'. The last few pages explained about sex and that using these robot type characters to represent male and female sex organs. All it did was confuse me tbh- so people have sex and now there's these robot characters that fit into the equation....right. A more text book type book with illustrations of actual anatomy and straight forward explanations of how and why would have been more helpful.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?Nope. They never bothered to tell me and I was too afraid to ask. Until I was about ten I genuinely thought that babies were made through kissing
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?Nope, no birds and bees talk for me.
As a parent, that has just churned my stomach. I know kids experiment, and they won't have realised at that age what they're doing, but the boy must have been exposed to sex at some point in his short life for him to have even known to do that, which, at 4, is definitely NOT something he should have been exposed to. I'm glad they both turned out fine, but that's not really the point. You have to wonder what happened in his life prior to this incident happening.(Original post by Samrout)
nope. My first exposure to sex was watching, with the rest of the kids on the street, a boy put his flaccid willy in a girl's fanny, saying "look it goes in!". I was about 5-6 at the time, the hot couple must have been about 4.
Grim but funny.
edit: lol at the disbelief. Yeah it happened, I remember it vividly. The boy didn't actually hump her, her just put it in, left it, and took it out a few of times. He looked like he was enjoying himself and the girl didn't know wtf was going on. All the kids who were watching found it interesting and funny. The boy was quite good friends with the girl prior to this encounter and used to play with her dolls etc. I grew up with them on my street, they've turned out fine.. ish.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?Nope, I'm sure they'd have found talking to me about it as awkward as I would've found listening to them talk about it. I first found out about it in some book on the human body that my mum got me. I don't think she meant for me to find out that way though, I was a bit too young at the time
She did get me a book about it a few years later though.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?why?(Original post by Fresh Prince of)
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Awkward.(Original post by PinkMobilePhone)
Nope, no birds and bees talk for me.
As a parent, that has just churned my stomach. I know kids experiment, and they won't have realised at that age what they're doing, but the boy must have been exposed to sex at some point in his short life for him to have even known to do that, which, at 4, is definitely NOT something he should have been exposed to. I'm glad they both turned out fine, but that's not really the point. You have to wonder what happened in his life prior to this incident happening.
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I hope they don't remember that now!
A conversation about TSS left him horrified 
I dread to think how awkward a conversation about sex would be with my mum (who as far as I'm concerned, as had sex once in her life :P )
She did get me a book about it a few years later though.
