At What Age Did You Get the Birds and The Bees Talk? Whom Was it By?

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Inexpensivefurniture · Accepted Answer

I never got The Talk and I'm glad. I think it's weird and a little traumatizing to act like sex is this secret, dirty thing and then one day spring all this info on your kid. What my parents did made it easy to understand, took away all the mystery (and thus the need to sneak around and be unsafe), and made is so that I never grew up thinking sex was weird or gross or anything like that.
Starting at around age 4-5, if I had a question about sex they just answered it honestly. In language appropriate for a child, but they never told me that stork bullshit, or used weird terms for genitals. By the time I was six I knew how periods worked, how sperm and eggs created a baby and how it was born (this was partially due to my mom breeding dogs when I was little. I saw a lot of births and from there it was pretty easy to figure out it was similar for people), I knew thw right terms for genitals, I knew about rape and molestation (side note: absolutely teach your kids about this as soon as possible because it saved me more than once).
I really admire the open approach they took. It left me with a healthy attitude about sex, and the ability to come to them with questions as I got older

godfatherfan · Accepted Answer

I never got that talk. And I am 52 so I had to figure it all out on my own before the internet.

rachel776 · Accepted Answer

around age 12 from my sister, but it was mostly me pestering her with questions. she was only a year older and didn't know that much more, but it seemed like she did

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

A bit before I turned 18. My best friend did :/ my parents straight up lied about it.

harvest · Answer

Never. I figured it out on my own.

DizzyDesii · Answer

Like age 23 lol. By mom. Way too late by then

TayTay21 · Answer

I never got a talk. I have two older brothers, so I heard enough just by being around them.

matchrestore · Answer

I was given a book about puberty when I was 11. A brief talk after it, and that was it.

ohshee · Answer

Just last week WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT I still don't get it lol

Apple1996 · Answer

I never really got the full talk. My mom just randomly threw it out there that one day my vag would start bleeding and that I should be prepared for it. I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time.

ScotishLegend · Answer

I was 13 and often questioned where birds and bees.

abc3643 · Answer

I never got that talk. That's what 7th Grade Health Class was for.

IAMNathanael · Answer

I think I was fourteen when the school taught me about it. But before that point I think I had it mostly figured out.

Jjpayne · Answer

I think I learned it from watching movies and talking to brother while watching them 😂 movies can give you quite a bit and I don't honestly remember having that conversation specifically with my parents

JPrez · Answer

I was 15 I believe and the conversation was super awkward and didn’t really work. I had already learned some stuff from friends. Later, my Dad pulled me aside and gave me a big book on Human Sexuality to look at. It was a thick book with plenty of pictures so I got a ton of information from it.

EyebrowChewie · Answer

I got the talk from a girl of my age 😂 she basically touched me and got me hard for the first time to prove it and i was pretty shocked. And she also told me that if pull my foreskin back it'll look like a mushroom so when i got home i tried that out.

TadCurious · Answer

Cookie I never really got a birds and bees talk from my parents. What I got was this presentation when I was in 5th grade put on by my school one evening. All the boys were shown a video separately from the girls and vice versa. Then the girls and boys were shown another video together. So I got some accurate information from that. But in addition I learned some things from friends who learned things from older siblings or whomever. And then after a certain point in puberty I was really curious on my own and did self study with books from the library.

josephinelcajon · Answer

Mom openly and honestly answer every question I learned this way from birth. and was far ahead of other kids.

lanadelrey25 · Answer

11, when I got my period. My mom told me but I already knew by 6.

Ghostloli · Answer

At bout 10 by my sister and her mate.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Well, Age 13 in Science Class but I pretty much knew that the white stuff coming out of my penis was semen ( cum) that could get a female pregnant, My parents never sat down and give us the talk, they were too old school and we learned on our own