How did you learn about puberty and sex?

Also include what age! Do you consider the way you found out to be healthy or detrimental? If you could change something about it what would it be? What do you think is the best way?

Parents/Guardians
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Siblings/Peers
Vote B
The Internet
Vote C
School
Vote D
Other (Comment)
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Most Helpful Guys

  • I grew up pre-internet.

    I learned zero about sex from my parents.

    I glimpsed young girl's vulvas, just the clefts, a couple times, so I knew they were different from boys.

    I accidentally masturbated one time in the bathtub when I was maybe 13, and was surprised by the amazing sensation. After that, I started masturbating a lot.

    Sex education in school was very basic, just rough anatomical drawings, pregnancy, STDs, and things like that. It didn't teach about sex, per se.

    I had access to magazines like Playboy. That's where I first saw fully developed young women. I had always been attracted to girls, so the sight of women's bodies - smooth skin, boobs, rounded hips and butts, beautiful thighs - was fascinating and erotic. They didn't shave back then, though, so I still never saw the parts of a vulva.

    I got my first girlfriend in 1970 when I was 16. She was 14 and was the one who started hanging around with me at first. Although, she wasn't the first girl who had hit on me.

    Anyway, she was really pretty and had a great figure. We started going steady and making out a lot.

    One night, she invited me into the house trailer that was parked in her parent's back yard. She had been in one, short-lived relationship before me, so she wasn't a virgin. And she had a pregnancy scare in that relationship, so she was on the pill.

    Inside the trailer, we stripped and started making out. Seeing and touching a real, live woman's body for the first time was a dream come true.

    When I put my hand between her legs, I was surprised to feel gooey, squishiness. Up until then, I had known that women had a hole where the penis was supposed to go, but I didn't know how it worked because I didn't know they got wet and slippery.

    After while, she laid back and I mounted her missionary style. Slipping inside her was heavenly. I admit that I probably lasted two minutes that first time.

    It was an amazing experience for me and she wasn't disappointed because she was really into me and was happy that she had made me cum.,

    We went steady for quite a while after that and had lots more sex. I got much better at it. I learned how to eat pussy. And one night in my car, she gave me my first BJ, which was another revelatory experience. And yes, she swallowed like a boss.

    So that's how I learned about sex. It was wonderful.

  • When I was 11 and 12, a gal pal and I played Doctor a lot and we became knowledgeable of comparative anatomy. During the intervening summer, puberty arrived and the differences; pubic hair and various thickenings were fun to see, even though we didn't know why. we were both 100 percent unsexualized and I think we might have tested things if we knew anything about them.

Most Helpful Girls

  • Internet. I went to a Christian school for 8 years so the only thing that I learnt about puberty was that I would get a period. I wasn’t taught anything else. I already knew what sex was and how it worked by the time that I was 7, I had unsupervised access to the internet, so y’know.. I found out. And I researched puberty myself after my school failed to educate me properly. My parents never really had to tell me anything.

  • From my parents, which is absolute tge best way. There was no one tine/date. These things were discussed as needed throughout childhood from as early as I can remember. Babies, reproduction, sex and our bodies and how they develop were never a secret. I found other kids had no clue and some very strange ideas.

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  • At 5 I would be teaching kids in school

  • Learned about puberty as it happened and sex as it became obvious.

  • My friend s older brother told us one day. I was horrified and did not believe it

  • My parents told me n I think this is how it should be

  • School. Sex ed started in 5th grade.

  • Parents, school, and life. Everything I have learned about it absolutely disgusted me so I have made a personal vow of celibacy

  • My sister helped me a lot when it came to sex.

  • School the internet and anything I didn't understood I asked a trustworthy adult that would keep it confidential

  • Neighborhood kids and kids at school. I was around 6

  • Maybe like 10?

  • Out in the woods with a Playboy

  • internet or brothers and sister school friends

  • school and the internet - we learnt about pubity when we were 10 in school and around that time i was also learning things properly from the internet, my school continued to teach us about sex up until 16 and i think both covered pretty good bases, the internet was good for just saying/showing what was what whilst the school taught us about condoms and stds