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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My parents never had the talk with me or my sister. My dads too uptight and my Mum thought it was awkward and just left us be. They left it to tv and films ( also the way my parents 'taught' us to talk by putting us in front of the tv) to educate us. But we have never needed to ask questions just googled it really.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?I'd be more concerned about the following question, "So where did you learn about that?"(Original post by alexmagpie)
This, except for me, the other way round. My dad asked me what a gimp was. And my mum asked me what BDSM stood for.
I'm more disturbed that they expected their at the time 15 year old daughter to know.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?My older brothers did a pretty good job of educating me whenever I wanted to know. My first real experience of an actual girl was with my brother's then girlfriend when I walked in on her changing when I was about 6 (she must have been 15 or so). I asked her if she had a fanny or boobs and she had no qualms in pointing out everything to me on an educational basis.
She also tried to tell me that a fanny was actually a vagina, which I mistook as trying to tell me that she was actually called Vagina and subsequently called her Vagina front of my mam subsequently to her horror. -
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?nope. my dad has pretty much stayed out of our relationships with the thoughts of "if youre happy then im happy and ill leave you to it". my mum kind of had the talk with my sister, as did my step-mum, which also included several envelopes of condoms sneakily passed to her over the years due to where she used to work. for some reason they never bothered with me.
Although when i was about 17/18 i went to the pub with my best friend, my mum had also been out with some of her friends and when she came back to find me in bed and him on the sofa she rather drunkenly decided to give him "the talk". apparently it was a rather amusing conversation.Last edited by vickie89; 22-07-2012 at 22:48. -
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No, I don't remember them doing so. But they were always open to questions. I can remember at the age of about 4 asking if two woman could get married, have sex and make babies, and then proceeded to ask him how exactly two woman could have sex and how they did it. We had sex ed at our school but since its a catholic school it basically involved saying "you don't need to know about sex. Don't do it till your married" and that was that. I think I learned mostly through the playground, television, that sort of thing.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?not really, I think I learned what sex is from T-rexes mating in Walking With Dinosaurs. afterwards I asked my mum about it and she said people did it the same way, to my horror
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?No, but my mum cornered me when I was about 12 and said "Is there anything you want to know about? Money? School? Friends? Health? ...Sex?" I said no and made a swift exit.
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?No, me and my Mum are pretty open about stuff though so I know I could have spoken to her if I'd needed to. Would have just been awkward with my Dad though
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?it would be sooo cool to have a dad like that!(Original post by College_Dropout)
No, but me and my dad are at the point when someone attractive walks past, he would say 'would you?'
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Re: Did your parents ever give you the talk about 'the birds and the bees'?My mom's always been quite open, my dad's still stuck in the "my little girl is growing up" stage even though I'm engaged
but my mom's always been able to answer any questions, she gave me a book about it years ago but I don't remember taking much notice of it or reading the book properly (I spent my time laughing at the cringey things the people in it were saying about how they threw condoms around the room to break the ice and how it was magical and amazing the first time), we didn't have proper sex education either so I kind of learnt on the job as it were Me and my mom have always had an easygoing relationship though, we call each other slags all the time and often end up having conversations where we try and see who can offend the other the most, just for fun
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