Come here Kurado, it's time I had THE TALK with you.
 

You know, that talk. When one of your parents talks to you about the fucking birds and bees. Potentially disturbing shit. In case you`re from Australia and don`t understand what I`m talking about, it`s when your parents talk to you about sex and then tell you that if in the future you ever have any questions to not hesitate to ask. And in your head you say "like fuck I will." Also, did you learn anything new?

I think I was 12, possibly 13 when my mom`s boyfriend threw that shit at me. Most uncomfortable hour of my life. He told me absolutely nothing I didn`t already know. God that was horrible.

My mother told me when I was seven.

Seven.

That's got to have fucked me up somehow.

I seem to remember my dad telling me when I was 13, but can't remember exactly, I guess thats a good thing.
I think that being round school mates and having the stupid lessons at school about it probably told me more than my parents would ever know.

I actually never had TEH TALK with the parents. I don't really converse with them on that level anyway. For the longest time it was like mentality of Shyamalan’s The Village where subjects such as those were ones we do not speak of. As children, my sister and I would always spell it out because we figured it was less damaging for some reason.

But curiosity got the best of me around age 8 when we had internet connection for awhile and the rest, as they say, is history.

Yeah, I was about this age when my mum spoke to me about it. It was the fault of TV and a child's persistant and inquisitive mind.

My parents never gave me "the talk". Everything I learned was in school and from social interaction. I've never been able to really talk about that kind of stuff with my mother, since she's kind of religious. I remember when she found out I had lost my virginity... Wow, that's something I'd hate to relive.

Never got the talk from my mother or her boyfriends. Picked it up from school, friends, television, books, internet, etc. Oh, and Loveline. Thanks, Dr. Drew.

Seven isn't all that bad, if it's handled delicately. The idea is not to make it some sort of crazy forbidden knowlege, but to give the kid enough information so that they think they know, but don't know the really groady parts.

Unfortunately, children are very literal-minded at that age. When I asked my mom why our camera talked, she said there was a little Chinese (why chinese?) girl in there. When she told me gai kow was made out of human flesh, I believed her. Ocassionally she'd threaten to make kitty stew. She was just teasing me, but I believed it - and I don't think I freaked out about any of these things.

So bearing all this in mind, at the tender young age of six years old, my mom told me that mothers and fathers mix and I thought babies sprung from soup.

guess I was hungry that day.

I never got the talk. I'm not even sure I ever really needed the talk, the way entertainment has gone. TV, movies, comic books, and news probably told me the basics. Well, those and middle school science.

My parents never talked about this stuff, but we read the personal ads (they're called that, right?) in elementary. That was before the internet broke through in our household, but once we got that I guess I just took it from there. My parents presumably thought I'd make it okay without their help.

I was actually talking about this the other day and the question arose: assuming you have or will have kids, would you talk to your kids about it? If so, when and how? I'm thinking I'd probably avoid the subject like the plague, but what if the kid asks the infamous "where do babies come from?" question?

The closest I ever got to "the talk" was when I was going off to college and my dad told me

Don't do drugs
Don't join a gang
Don't get pregnant

And just assumed I knew how to do any of it.

Hell, my dad went through how to do all of those and then told me not to do any of them...

greatest parts is I am a guy....so I won't be getting pregnant no matter how hard I try.

My parents never even gave me "the talk". I learned about it from the sex education segment in middle school. I actually went to my Mom and asked her why she didn't tell me before my school got to it.

She said something like, "you learned about it though, so you're fine".

never got the talk. kinda wish i had.

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The talk. I got it in seventh grade when I really didn't need it anyway. The Internet was readily available and though I wasn't going around downloading porn, I knew that Sephiroth enjoyed pillaging Cloud's hole thanks to a post in the FF7 message boards on AOL.

Then I found out that if a giant tiger-lion mounts a flower girl, chances are she won't get pregnant. However, if Don Corneo does the same thing to Yuffie, she'll have materia babies. Thanks to the Internet and my own naive web searches, I found out about life on my own.

Do I win yet.

When I turned 16, my uncle asked me did I want to learn about the birds and the bees. I said no, because I was already familiar with the way love goes. Therefore I've never had the talk. My dad who's late on everything was about to tell me about it, and I just gave him that looke of "..no." I mean... duh, you learn about this stuff in school.

I never received the talk from my parents. I recall being in the fourth or fifth grade, and the school held a program that educated boys and girls. They had separate classrooms set up for about two days, and various items and booklets were given out. After a few years, my parents simply assumed that I was already aware of everything.

My parents never talked to me about it. Actually my older sister told me when i was quite young, don't really remember the age, maybe 7. But ya'know, that's why most schools teach you this at the "appropriate" age and lovely Sex Ed. Once your kid starts going to school, you need to think of the things they are gonna learn in school soon and teach them how you feel about it... well, teach them i guess "whats right"... hah! If you don't, they'll catch on at school and friends too quick usually the wrong way and go on from there, probably disobeying every order you throw at them because you never taught them about sex. :P

To be serious for a moment, it kinda stems from numerous father and brother issues, but thats a whooooooooooooooooole nother post within itself. :P

Everything I learned, I learned from porn and the playground, since my mother's a fundamentalist christian.. When I have children, if they ask where babies come from I'll explain in the most technical way possible and hope they don't understand.

My mom never sat me down and talked to me about this.

My brother, on the otherhand, definitely forced me to watch a porn with him and my cousin when I was five years old.

The things older sibilings do, LOL.

XD.

Ive never had 'the talk.' The closest ive ever gotten is my dad every time i get home after hanging out at a girls house telling me that teenage pregnancy is bad and i better not be screwing anyone. or his talk about how modern jeans hide if a girl has a nice ass or not. O.O

I would hate to see the reaction i would get if my parents found out i lost my virginity...

I dont remember exactly how old I was. I just remember sitting at a restaurant in Atlanta with my dad, and he said, "You know about sex and stuff, right?" I responded with a simple, "Yeah."

That was our talk.

I just had to quote this :tpg:

My experience was somewhat similar. I remember I was at a some restaurant with my parents when I was really young and the discussion turned towards babies. That's when I decided it was time to spring the "Where to babies come from?" bombshell on them. Despite my constant nagging, they wouldn't go past "You need a mommy and a daddy if you want to have a baby." I thought and I thought, and I came to the conclusion that a couple would get married, and then write a letter to God saying they wanted a baby. If God deemed them worthy, he would somehow transport said baby into mommy's tummy and BA-BOOM, baby is born.

I never got the talk. I just sort of picked up everything I needed to know from friends, movies, books, whatnot. Then came the awkward health class unit, but by then everyone knew everything and we all just wanted to get the hell outta there. At some point in there my mom bought me some book explaining everything or something, but I never looked inside, and a word was never spoken about it.