strangers in the night, exchanging glances.

[enamoured]

Okay, I have seen everything. The Best Week Ever blog used the #1 LJ celeb news comm as a source. And I thought them using JJB was mindblowing enough.

The other night I was writing in the book journal and I ended up recalling the time when I got "The Talk". I'd never actually written it down, mostly because at the time it happened, I was eleven and pretty unwilling to write about my own experiences going through puberty, never mind explaining what I'd learned about reproduction. I think I'd tried to write about it, but I was too embarrassed. Hee. Plus, to make matters worse, I got The Talk at school. Catholic school. Yeah. I never asked my parents where babies came from--I had my theories and was convinced I was right. So you can just imagine my shock upon getting my theories shot down. It was actually pretty funny to remember--I would post it here, though I don't think the funny might translate well. Err... I don't know what I mean.

So... anyone want to share how they got the "birds and bees" talk? I especially want to hear the embarrassing/funny stories.

Comments

[miss-sara-no-h.livejournal.com]

1. What's OTP/OTD? ( your icon..)

2. I got the talk after I knew everything. I learned from books, honestly. I've lived in the library almost my entire life, and when a book I was reading mentioned something I was unfammilar with, I looked it up. and from a few well written books and some context clues, I figured everything out. I remember feeling very different once I possessed the knowledge though. Couples holding hands, and men in general, looked different to me.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

OTP stands for one true pairing--which is like, a couple or whatever. It's Geeky Fangirl Talk. [g]

All I know was that I was supremely incested to think that my parents had done such a thing. I was all, "But--but--WHO in their right mind DOES that?!"

[starsprinkles.livejournal.com]

When I was 6, my best friend was a boy. We used to "play." One day he said "I know how to make a baby. I stick it in you. Wanna try?" Needless to say, I declined, and it wasn't as traumatizing as it probably sounds. But of course I had to go home and ask my mom if that was true. And so she had to get out the book Where Do I Come From? (this horrific cartoon book for kids) and explain it to me. That part was actually more traumatizing.

Obviously that Talk was very basic. Then of course we had Talks at school. And then everything else I learned from my friends, magazines, TV, etc.

I want to hear your theories. Heh.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Oh God, my mom and dad had Where Do I Come From?. I think if I'd ever asked, they probably would've given me that book and sent me skipping on my merry little way.

I was under the impression that women got pregant like this: while French-kissing, the man would spit into the woman's mouth, and she would swallow it. For some reason, I was convinced this was why people seemed so uptight about PDA. It could lead to pregnancy, dont'cha know. [g]

[lyevil.livejournal.com]

I got the talk when we had to get permission forms signed to be able to sit in on sex ed in gym class.
This was the conversation:
Me: Uh...Dad will you sign this so I don't have to sit outside during sex ed?
Dad: Sex ed, huh? Well, sex is great! But don't do it till you're married.
Me: ...
Yeah, talk about more than I wanted to know at 12... I mean, I still just want to believe my parents have only had sex 5 times. Since there are 5 of us kids.
And everything else was learned through 3 years of sex ed in gym, highschool, mags, and pop culture.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

My mom got me a book when I was in 4th grade, and of course it got brought up again several times during 5th and 6th grade.

I think the most memorable of the many versions of "the sex talk" teachers gave me was my junior high step-up teacher, who used a volleyball and a thumbtack...

[brittanygrace.livejournal.com]

To be quite honest with you I don't know that I ever got a talk. I think I just kinda...figured it out.

[waderapspoorly.livejournal.com]

My talk was from two older sisters and Judy Blume books.

The best talk I've ever had was my question about periods at dinner. With the entire family there. I had just read "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and didn't understand why you had to wear belts with your pads. (Again, two older sisters.)

Did you know they took all the belt references out of the book?

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I heard that! I never read the book, but I heard that and was all, "But--but...!"

[bitter-sixteen.livejournal.com]

Private schools have the mentality that if you tell them absolutely everything from periods and premature ejaculation to menopause to erectile dysfunction, not only will the kids be more mature but they'll also be more intelligent regarding the topic.


I was in the third grade when I saw my first video about "Wet Dreams". That class was the once a week reminder of how much I still had to grow, and how immature boys are.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I think we were told something about wet dreams--though I might be making it up. If we were, then I'd be surprised.

I know that a lot of more progressive Catholics believe in birth control, but we weren't taught about condoms or The Pill or anything. I learned abou tall of those things from teen magazines. Say what you want about them, but they are good for something.

[bitter-sixteen.livejournal.com]

I really don't remember them going over any form of birth control. Maybe their version of birth control was getting us to think that the other sex was so gross and "weird" that none of us would ever want to touch, let alone, be intimate, with one another.


My ninth grade health class was hilarious just because I'd had the run around of STD studies and what not that when we had the "anonymous question time" and some kid asked, "What happens if you get sperm in your eye?" I started busting up.

Inappropriate seeing as some kid in my class was worried for their sight but come on, that's worse than the over asked, "Does Mountain Dew really lower your sperm count?"

[someday22.livejournal.com]

My mom got me the book, What's Happening to Me to help explain puberty. That was when I was about 11. In 5th grade we had a filmstrip. My mom never told me anything. I had school & friends for that. Don't even know what my theories might have been before I found out the truth.