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The birds and the bees

  • 11-09-2009 04:11PM
    #1
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭


    As a result of having extremely catholic parents, my formal sex education consisted of my mam asking me at 12 "do you know about sex" and me saying "eh.....yeah" as i fled the room more embarrased than i thought possible.

    I always wondered (and still do) how other people found out.

    For me, when i was 8 the big boys on the road told me. I think they felt sorry for me coz i was going around talking about "sex" and saying stuff that was completely wrong :D.

    So how/when did you find out about sex?

    Was it your parents, friends, older kids, did you see/hear something you weren't supposed to :D?

    I'd be interested in seeing how many boardsies' parents were completley open and honest about it and explained it to them at a very young age.


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    We had someone come to us in 5th class primary school. Boys and girls separated and when the class was over, I remember the lady telling us not to make fun of each others bits and pieces. :D
    Parents told me nothing.


  • #3
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    when she said "ride me sideways" and i went off looking for a saddle


  • #4
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    its a lovely day, the birds flying around, the bees trying to have sex with them, well thats my understanding of it


  • #5
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I was very disappointed when that chat contained no zoological discussion.


  • #6
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Our bioogy teacher gave a group of us 13 year olds an afternoon lesson ....er on sex education .

    we left the classroom as confused as we went in :confused:

    It wasn't till the next day that the penny dropped

    The fact that biology teacher was also pregnant at the time didn't register with some of us either :eek:


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  • #7
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Uncle Frank showed me....:(


  • #8
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    I think I was about 9 when the conversation was doing the rounds of my friends.

    I actually tried to have "the talk" with my younger brother a few years ago, In fairness he wasn't embaressed or trying to do a runner or anything but the bits he'd picked up from South park, the Simpsons and his mates was a bit off the bat.

    Most kids seem to have a fairly good idea about the "ins and outs" of it by about 10 or 11.

    The trick is to always keep learning :cool:


  • #9
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    I asked my mother how babies were made when I was about 4 and she told me that "the man puts his willy into the woman's vagina". That was it. No big deal. Though for a few years I just figured that he put it in there and then they went asleep or something. It wasn't explained to me graphically or anything.


  • #10
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    My older sisters Junior Cert Science book had me filled in on everything by the time I was about 11, I also discovered bertieahern.com around the same time so I was pretty precocious for my age.


  • #11
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭lucylu


    Looking at the pictures the Encyclopedia behind the sofa :o


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  • #12
    renraw
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 496 ✭✭renraw


    Youngest of 7 brothers, parents never told me anything and all of my brothers where whoree masters. Theres stuff I shouldn't have known when I was 12 :o


  • #13
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I've honestly no idea how I found out actually

    :/


  • #14
    zzap64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭zzap64


    Basics off a friend when 9. Bit more filled in by classmate when 12 (teacher was out for the day!) and documentories and the like on BBC2 and Channel 4! :)

    I remember asking my mother when I was 6 or so about where did babies come from. She said "You pray to God". What a cop out!


  • #15
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i found out the hard way


  • #16
    Four-Percent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Four-Percent


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I was very disappointed when that chat contained no zoological discussion.

    That makes two of us, my friend :(

    Mine was when I told my mam that in sex, a willy was put into a boobie.About 30 minutes later I got the talk :o


  • #17
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    zzap64 wrote: »
    I remember asking my mother when I was 6 or so about where did babies come from. She said "You pray to God".

    Huh.. Funny that.

    I pray to god every time that I don't get a baby


  • #18
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    i found out the hard way

    giggidy


    that is all


  • #19
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    We used to play a game with the really young kids when we where young called "have you got a penis or a vagina", wait, wait it's not as bad as it sounds. Basically ask them them that question and no matter what they say point and laugh saying "ha ha you've got a penis/vagina" then they'll go "no wait I have (opposite)" then we'd laugh again and the child would run home to it's parents crying to ask which one they had.

    Simpler times.


  • #20
    Orla K
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭Orla K


    I'm not repeating myself


  • #21
    Tyranax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭Tyranax


    I pieced it together. People my age telling me bits and pieces about it, medical diagrams and booklets. Never quite understood it until one day I was watching a film at about ten years of age, it may well have been a Bond film. There was a scene where Bond and the woman get intimate, which led to a fade-out. "Aaaahhhh....so that's how it goes. Phew."


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  • #22
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    My mother was a great believer in good clear matter-of-fact information from a young age.

    In fact, so strongly did she feel about it that she insisted that my friends were well-briefed as well, which could be both hilarious and mortifying at the same time.

    That said, discussions among ourselves tended to be more entertaining, especially after one of the lads "liberated" a couple of mags and a vid from his older brother's store and passed them round! :D


  • #23
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    zzap64 wrote: »

    I remember asking my mother when I was 6 or so about where did babies come from. She said "You pray to God". What a cop out!

    Yep, exactly the same! :eek:
    "We pray very very hard"


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My parents told me on a camping holiday when I was 5.


  • #25
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Anna Molly showed me the ropes!;)


  • #26
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I don't remember, but I remember being about 6, knowing about sex and a fair idea of what was involved and thinking 'I can't wait to have this'
    It took me a while to realise I didn't need a partner...


  • #27
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It came to me in a flash.


  • #28
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    reading a dictionary in the good old days out of boredom.

    i was thinking "wtf? why would anyone want to do that?"


  • #29
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    zzap64 wrote: »
    I remember asking my mother when I was 6 or so about where did babies come from. She said "You pray to God".

    Yeah I thought that for a long while....mainly because I heard "Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! Oh God"....etc coming from my parent bedroom when I was young.


  • #30
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    By the time my parents told me anything I was well informed. Dunno how I found out, I don't really remember a time when I didn't know the basic mechanics of it. For me it was just another piece of biology, like "where does food go when you eat it?" or "what happens when you breathe?".


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  • #31
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Snyper called over.


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