January 22, 2007
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Sex Education
When I was 7-years-old, I asked my mom “Why do chickens lay eggs and mommys don’t?” She sat me down and she explained all about sex. She told me about sex, oral sex, anal sex, masturbation, wet dreams and everything. I was shocked to hear that my mom and dad were doing all of that. It had never occurred to me.
She finished what must have been a two hour talk. She asked me, “Any questions?” I said, “Yes, why do chickens lay eggs and mommys don’t?”
What age did you find out about sex?
Comments (178)
13
maybe about 9 or 10..about it didn’t contain as much information!
14 or 15… I think
Can’t remember.
But not in great detail
Probably around 9-10.
Uhh…. 19
i don’t remember
I’m guessing I was 12 or 13…. but very general.
around 10 or 11
I don’t remember… 6th grade, maybe?
I don’t remember. I knew about it for a while, though.
probably around 10
Nine,and I couldn’t believe that my parents did that five whole times either!!!!
Age five. A variation on Twister.
I’m honestly not sure. The other kids introduced it to me one word at a time from the age of about six until adolescence.
At about 10 years old from the encyclopedia.
before 5th grade definitely..
Haha… that’s hilarious. I found out at age 4, because I got into my older brother’s sex ed books (he was 8 at the time and my parents were just starting to have “The Talk” with him) and they needed to explain to me what all the funny-looking words and drawings were, pronto.
I was in fourth grade. I saw the word “fuck” written on some playground equipment. I came home and asked my mom about it. I remember she told me something…but I can’t remember what it was.
When I was older I asked my dad about sex/guys instead of my mom….He always gave me good advice…always knew what guys were thinking and talked frankly with me.
My kids come to me all the time……with the damndest questions….We talk about stuff all the time….Sex is a common topic in our house…..sometimes it’s hilarious…..
Candy
Larry learned it at a very very young age…even for a lobster!
Larry loves you all very very much!!
9?
I don’t think they’re ever was an age for me. I learned about sex gradually through people,tv,friends and what not. I had Sex Ed in the 5th grade but retained nothing cuz I didn’t understand much about it. My parents never gave me “the talk”. I just learned by myself and knew everything about it fully at myabe around, 13 or 14.
i learned about menstruation at 10, and we knew there was something no one wanted us to know about the fertilization of the egg. we sort of guessed what might be involved then. i found out a fair bit more when i was in 7th grade (12 yrs old) and read science fiction (especially robert heinlein’s novels for adults) and romance novels. i learned the real facts in 8th grade at 13 when i read “everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask” since my mother and father kept changing the subject every time i tried to ask.
6.
Porno was on.
I learned about everything in like, 6th grade…
My mother was very open with me whenever I asked a question. I knew basically where babies came from probably at 4 or 5. I asked, she told me…at a level I could understand, of course. As I got older and asked more questions I got the other blanks filled in.
Can’t remember. About 8 when I learned about it from friends, 10 from my parents.
-David
Age eight. From my best friend, not my mom. Let me tell you, my kids are going to hear the truth straight up from me. No storks involved.
health class .
my parents never sat me down and explained any of that… they told me dont have sex …that was the extent of my sex talks
and health was worse …. it was all about STDs
and that was it
so yeah sex and oral sex were a surprize lmao
i learned about it forever from tv movies music and what not….then before i went into jr high one of my friends moms told my mom about people in the jr high that would give bjs in the bathrooms and thats when she told me everything… then 2 years later me, my mom, my best friend, and her mom all had a talk about sex and everything included and their first times and what its like and all that embarrasing stuff…
Hahaha. That story was great.
I never had “the talk.” Just learned more and more as I grew up from my surroundings.
I was told, however, that virgins were people who never kissed anyone before.
Hehe.
8, my brother was 14 and had MTV on. “Hey what’s a virgin?”
Very young. I learned more and more through middle school. I never had a birds and bees talk though. I figured it all out through friends, tv, and the internet.
probably in the age range of 9-11 seeing as i cannot remember the exact age. now i am talking to my child about sex…giving more information to him then my parents (mom actually) gave to me.
Five. What can I say, my parents had me in their sophomore year of college. We’re pretty open…um…maybe even a bit too open
i honestly don’t remember. there’s just this space that’s there sometime between like, 7 and 12 that it could have occured. i realy don;t remember.
I was 6, and me and a friend of mine who was a girl did, uh, some exploring.
10- my mom just handed me a book… it was very odd….
probably around 10?
I cannot remember. It certainly was not as in depth as your initiation was.
I never actually had “the talk.” I figured it out on my own, starting at around. . . 10. Maybe a little younger with the basics.
I don’t know. I had a few ideas around 8. But I only became fully clued in when I was 12. My parents bought me a book. No talk.
I remember being 4 and telling my friend I heard my mommy and daddy having sex.
anyway, I work at sex clinic. Well, I mean, we distribute safe sex supplies and educate people about sex. so anyone who hasn’t had the talk…let me know.
and maybe I should mention i’m an only child.
Maybe 10 or 11? My dad hated talking about it and my mom didn’t mind, but she wasn’t very good at it.
That depends on what level of expertise you mean when you say “found out”
I think I was like 10 when I asked my mom how long you had to kiss someone before you get pregnant.
i probably heard about it when i was young, but the first time i really learned about it was Sex Ed. in 6th grade (so i was 11). we learned about all that for like a week at the end of the semester. we had to go through the same stuff in 7th and 8th grade too. my parents never had to explain it to me.
hahah your story is hilarious..
and my parents never had the sex talk with me
j
I don’t even remember. I was traumatized after my DAD tried to give me a sex talk when I was 13 or 14. My mom threw me a book when I was 8 or 9. I knew about it before it then though… but that was her way of saying she told me something, lol. My husbands parents… set up an appointment with their family doctor and had the doctor (who was a female) ask him if he had any questions…. lol. Hopefully we’ll be better with our kids then our parents were with us.
9. that stupid class we took when the guys & girls were separated to learn about puberty. that wasn’t awkward or anything.
10-12?
O.O I would have been traumatized.
five or so for regular sex- not all involved, just…basics. very very basic. and the rest I learned over the years through peers and research I did cause I’m shy and a dork and I would rather look it up in an encyclopedia than ask someone about it. So I did.
…And now I’m giving my friends sex advice…
something’s wrong there.
i was like in 7th grade, so i guess around the age of 11 or 12, i think….i remember my dad just decided that it was time for that talk, so we drove off just him and i and went to a baseball field parking lot, sat in the car, most uncomfortable couple of minutes of my life….
LOL- at your story! And all you wanted was that one question answered. I didn’t know much until I was married. My parents never told me a thing except you know you shouldn’t do that.
Fourth grade. It’s not in great detail though. My ‘friends’ just told me it felt good and that it made babies.
I meant shouldn’t do that until I was married.
gradually from 5th grade on.
I saw it on TV. 5?
I was about 9 I think. We had a female friend at church who was pregnant with her second child. She and her husband were very excited and talked about the baby lots. I asked my mom how the baby got inside of her. I then proceeded to inform my mom I wanted to know **Exactly** who it got in there. She rented me a video all bout babies being made – it looked like a cheezy but accurate 70′s animation.
Nice of your mom to share the joys of anal.
ick.
Uhhhh…I’m not 100% sure. Probably around 10. I never got “the talk” from my parents, thank god.
Probably around…5 or 6. My Mom read alot of romance novels. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what the Fabio-esqe looking character and the pretty brunette were doing.
She gave you a lot of info,my moms answers were short
Me at 7 ,”How does woman get pregnant?
Mom at 37 ,”By a seed that a man gives a woman”
Me,still 7 ,”Oh”
I think 7. And like you, I found out more than I really wanted to know.
i dont remember a time when i didnt know… i know i knew what it was when i was 4…
yesterday
well i “knew” about it when i was younger (my parents didn’t shelter me from all of that to much) i remember seeing somthing in a movie i was watcing with my parents(and all my older brothers) when i ws about 7 but i didn’t know it was called sex and i didn’t think it was grose at all ether.
i don’t havea exact age i knew when haveing sex was but it was way befor i started dateing(i started dating at the age of 14) I never thought it was grose or enything like that. but i did know it was wrong to do unless those who were doing it were married.
I seem to recall reading this anecdote. Have you posted this story before?
Um, I was in third grade. My friends told me about it. My mom sat me down and had the “sex talk” at 13, and it was an ‘abstinence only’ tirade. Sadly, I did not find out what contraception was until I was 14 during sex ed. I was a pretty sheltered child.
6 or 7.
oh, and ryc: really? you don’t seem like it..
Hahaha!
I still haven’t. What’s sex?
To THAT extent… much much later… probably learned something around 12-14ish, and knew that stuff by the time I was 16-17.
But, no information from my parents whatsoever…
LOL…11…
8 – 9?
I’m still in the dark.
I went through “formal” sex ed in eighth grade…………but I would say in fourth grade is when I had my first “crude/street” introduction.
10 or 11. i asked why our neighbors didn’t have kids. so my mom told me about sex. but, very general info.
heh. 7?
i dont remember actually…i read alot. through books…so yeah idk.i’d say 14ish?
Umm sex edu..I don’t think my parents did ever talk 2 me bout it.I had 2 find out for meself..
5 when the mechanics were explained, 10 when the consequences of sex were explained.
I’m not sure, probably in like 6th grade because somone explained it to me. I had a class in 8th grade on abstinence where they also taught about sex and now, as a Sophmore I have to take health so I’ll be learning everything I ever wanted to know about sex. Yes.
I think I would have liked your mom.
My parents did about the same for me.
I was about 6 and some older girl told me and I ran home crying and told my grandmother – Granny was NOT happy – It was a big neighborhood brawl with the parents of the girl who told me – LOL
At 6 I learned about how it works and where babies come from, and at 9 I learned how it would affect me as a girl. And then when I went to highschool I learned that it was a lot of fun.
When I turned 13 my dad sat me down and explained that boys would only want one thing from me…and I had better not give it to them! And every year after that, like clockwork, my dad would repeat the warning. Dirty boys + weak girl = baby and no diploma…YIKES!
10
around 8 or 9.
I grew up on a farm, I don’t know that I was ever not aware…I was on to boys at a very young age tho. I do remember our 8th grade health teacher refused to show us the videos on STD’s. She was afraid it might give us ideas. Considering one of my classmates was hospitalized a year later for one (and never was able to have kids), she should of reconsidered.
sometime in elementry… when the teachers had to tell us.
I feel like i’ve always just known. ha. I don’t remember ever being confused or shocked
Holy crap, are you serious?! That’s a lot of info for a 7 year old-sounds like she was covering all the bases! I really can’t remember, but I’m pretty sure it was before junior high. I remember asking my mom if you had to be naked to have sex. I think I was…hmm, in 5th grade, maybe?
First, a neighbor girl told me when I was in forth grade (but she had her facts a little wrong as she only knew about the anus for sex). Not too long afterwards, my dog had sex with the neighbor’s dog and they became “stuck” together. After I tried repeated to pull them apart, mom and her friend the nurse had the talk with us.
Officially? I was 8. That’s when I had it actually explained to me with words. But when I was 6, I was sexually abused, so unfortunately I knew quite a bit before that.
i dont remember the age… but my mother showed me a video in girl scouts… she was our leader
i laughed when i found out about guys getting hard… cuz i think that was the only shocker part to me… then again it was a lot about periods and less about sex… i dont really remember…
Did you ever get your original question answered? I have some ideas why.
Wow…umm….I have no idea, I can’t remember really.
I was 11 or 12. My mom sat me down with a nice pamphlet about the female menstrual cycle. My parents were fairly open about any questions I had about sex (although pretty much everything outside of marriage, and outside of regular sex was a total deviancy and a sin
).
Wow, your mom told you all that stuff at 7? I don’t think I could have handled it that young.
age 5
I never had “the talk” with my Mom. It was my friends I learned from… starting around middle school age.. so probably 11-12.
I don’t know, but I have enjoyed it ever since!
8ish?
Nine years old, I went to a musical at the high school where my father teaches: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The musical circles around a virgin and the quest to marry her to the prince/king… ? I can’t even remember. I said, quite loud, “Daddy, what’s a virgin?”
I got a good long talk on a Friday night in the 4th grade with my parents when we got home.
I know a girl who, not kidding, found out about sex the week before her wedding. She was horrified and didn’t want to get married. She thought babies were made by hugging each other and being close.
haha on my own first grade, from my parents, still waiting
For me, it didn’t just happen one day. It was years of accumulating different stuff. My “talk” I got from my parents was my dad telling me that a) the stuff you can get today can’t just get fixed with a shot of penicillin and b) if I ever knocked up a girl, the only honorable thing was to stay with her.
I would think the most informative thing I came across was a biology textbook. Early teens.
8 or 9
Wow u have a cool mom!
13 for me
My male cousin told me about a four letter word and what it meant when I was about 6.. I still didn’t know so I had to ask my mom to explain what he meant.. I don’t think that she did at the time. Dan, that was one heck of a funny story though!
12, and sometimes I wonder if I really wanted to know. Life was simpler when you didn’t worry about stuff like that.
Upon reflection, thought, it’s too much fun to wait on!
’nuff said….
I knew about puberty when I was ten, but not actual sex until I was eleven or twelve. My parents never sat me down and gave me a talk. I just learned about it in bits and pieces from friends and TV. I didn’t know sex involved the penis going into the vagina until I heard about it on an episode of Dr. Phil.
Way before I was ready
I knew about puberty when I was ten, but not actual sex until I was eleven or twelve. My parents never sat me down and gave me a talk. I just learned about it in bits and pieces from friends and TV. I didn’t know sex involved the penis going into the vagina until I heard about it on an episode of Dr. Phil.
Go ahead and delete one of those. I hate my computer.
12 I think. But I pretty much new the basics before that.
i was 10 years old….my cousin told me all about it!
10 or 11. i figured it out for myself. o_O
haha, um… about 10?
hmmm…. I was about 9 I believe.
I was so sure that babies came from just kissing, too… that was a shocker.
I wrote erotic fiction when I was twelve, so before then.
But, then again, that story was the funniest thing I’ve ever written.
at 7 you were told all that? goodness, advanced child you were.
I was more about 11-12 when I started to put things together more fully, but lots of details were just facts that did not make much sense. Sex was irrelevant to my life at that time, so I did not have many questions.
Its one things to learn the mechanics of sex at a young age, but still you don’t know anything. When the actual hormones kick in, and emotions develop around it all, then the real questions and learning take place.
9 or 10…my cousin told me the “f” word, along with a very distorted definition, and I went and asked mom about it…she decided it was time to have “the talk”, complete with those little factual brochures from the dr’s office, with diagrams and everything.
My daughter is 10 and hasn’t asked and is clueless….I suppose it’s time, because she’ll be hearing things at school.
3 when I first learned how to read, but I just thought of it as a scientific act to create life. I didn’t fully understand the enjoyment part of it until I was about 8 or so, when some of my friends got into porn magazines. Then when I was 9 and my parents found them, I still didn’t really figure out why it was “bad”. I said things like, “but mom, dad, it’s just the way they create babies! so it just happens to feel good for some people.”
I think I was about 11 when I fully grasped the entire concept.
I was 10…I got my first period and freaked out becuase I knew NOTHING….my mother gave me a book to read that explained everything…that was it…
I was in 5th grade
9 or 10 I think.
I really don’t know… it was somewhat of a progressive thing.
I wasn’t 100% sure what sex was for the longest time…
6th grade sex education, lol.
8 or 9
probably when i was 7-8
eight or nine
I was in the 2nd grade. I learned through these books the school used called Family Life. It was like these Christian books that was supposed to teach you about family values and how to be good Christians. You would get a different one each year starting in 2nd grade. Each one started out innocently, how you should act and follow Jesus’ example, how important family is, etc. Then, it starts talking about the sexual organs of a man and a woman. Then it tells you how a couple has sex, finally ending with how exactly a baby forms. I never had to ask my parents, family life answered all my questions. The school was not allowed to discuss these ending chapters during class but it was still “a very important discussion to do at home.” One time there was a whole chapter dedicated to homosexuals. Of course because I brought home these books and had to read them for homework, my little sister learned about sex in pre-school.
Prolly 8 or 9.
four. and i didn’t ask./
thats a pretty funny story dan. I learned from kids at school and Health class
But my parents never told me about it.
I honestly can’t remember. I know I had about an hour long talk with my parents about it, but schools today pretty much give each other sex ed.
I do remember that before I learned about sex, I thought that making out produced babies. That was like when I was 6 or so.
lol
no one gave me the talk. i found out from tv and peicing things together on my own. it’s still screwed up in there too. my brains a madhouse.
you’ve posted this before! Word for word!!
11/12 ish
I think around five. My brother told me, and I asked my dad loudly at a restaurant “Is it true that you shoved your penis up my mommy’s vagina?”
Haha, I can still remember the look on his face
when you were SEVEN
didnt that scare the hell out of you?
probably around 8 or 9.
4th grade… kinda late in comparison to everyone else. heh -__-’
I was about 10. Mom brought me a couple of nicely illustrated library books, and sent me to sex ed. She never told me herself about it, which I think is pretty cheap. But whatever. Thanks to porn, I bet I know more about sex than she does. Eat that, mom!
5th grade, so about… 10 or 11. It was in health class. I had no idea, so I was traumatized. My jaw was literally hanging down. I’d tried hinting at my mom before then that I wanted to know what the whole deal was, but she acted like she didn’t know what I was talking about…
Yay for parenting.
11. o-o
junior high. My parents never had that kind of talk with me
15 through sex education…
But my parents never had the talk to me. Conservative Chinese parents, of course!
eleven probably. If they hadn’t shown me the video in the fifth grade, my mom would’ve never explained it to me. She’s the type who can’t handle her teen cursing at all and still says ‘poo poo, and, when the occasion rises, ‘weenie’.
-shakes head-
10… creepy…
4 is the earliest age at which i remember having sex.
uhhh….somewhere between 4-7.
lmao thats a cute story!
and i think i got the 411 on it when i was 9 or 10
to soon
I learned the generalized idea at the end of 5th and covered the rest in 6th, 8th, and 9th.
Sex- 11, though it was hinted at me at age 3. Of course it went right over my head.
Mastrubation- 13?
menstration- 10
nine.
I learned little by little as I grew older.
cant remember but that was a cute story
I don’t remember, pretty early I think. Not from my parents though. I never had the “talk” and it’s much too late now.
10? 11?
6 or 7
10, I think.
as soon as i found my parents stash of books. i would say…8?
You really should have asked when everyone started masturbating.
It was a gradual learning. My mom and dad never talked about sex.
I’m still not really sure what some of that stuff you mentioned is to be honest. :-/
I never wanted to talk about it. I wouldve much rather read a book. so I got a book.
8. My mother gave me a book called “So That’s How I Was Born”. Tacky, no?
i went to bday party when i was 12 and we had a deep discussion, i had a general idea b4 that tho
Four.
I said the N word and got yelled at. We went over all the curses in my tears.
I had did it all with the brother and sister next door within days. Life was good.
7 or 8…
> 13-ish; Main auditorium, Junior high, me ‘n couple dozen other victims of sex eduction via the public school system…. Dry describes shreded wheat; This info seminar, whatever, was dessication incarnate!!! I learned more from Playboy and Penthouse! Articles were also informative, with a little reading and research…. ;-}
7
dont remember prob 8