The talk

Mint Aero · 15-03-2016 08:22PM #1

Describe the events of your parent(s) telling you about the birds and the bees. My dad asked me when I was 15 if he was too late to give me the talk. I said yes. He breath a sigh of relief.

15-03-2016 08:32PM

They never had to sit down and have a specific talk with me, they just answered any questions I had as they arose and didn't make any kind of fuss about it. They treated it the same as if I'd been asking about anything ordinary.

Menas · 15-03-2016 08:32PM

I am still waiting for someone to explain it all to me.

15-03-2016 08:33PM

Menas wrote: »

I am still waiting for someone to explain it all to me.

Sometimes, when a mummy and a daddy love each other very, very much, they have a special hug....

Alf Stewart. · 15-03-2016 08:34PM

Menas wrote: »

I am still waiting for someone to explain it all to me.

Sit down on me lap and we'll talk about the first thing that pops up.

a fat guy · 15-03-2016 08:42PM

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Sit down on me lap and we'll talk about the first thing that pops up.

No menas, no! Stay away from him!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 15-03-2016 08:48PM

I'm still traumatised about it. I'm no prude but cannot dig deep enough to discuss it out loud. Suffice to say my mother cornered me one evening I wasn't expecting it and shattered my innocence forever.

SeaFields · 15-03-2016 08:54PM

There's a popular salmon fishing lure called a flying C or flying condom. My father arrived home from tackle shop with some and said to me "that's a funny name isn't it, cuz ya know, condoms." Yeah I said. "cuz condoms are for sex" he said. They are I agreed. Awkward silence followed.

I think that is the extent of any talk I had with him on the subject.

recylingbin · 15-03-2016 09:00PM

School took care of this for us.
Week x : alcoholism video featuring jimmy greaves
Week y: the actual act of birthing video featuring some bird that should have been in horror movies such was the terror her screaming engendered.
Week z: Wuthering heights starring Laurence Olivier.

No one wanted to be in the delivery room after that.

recylingbin · 15-03-2016 09:02PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I'm still traumatised about it. I'm no prude but cannot dig deep enough to discuss it out loud. Suffice to say my mother cornered me one evening I wasn't expecting it and shattered my innocence forever.

:eek:
Hope you reported her to the law

tomwaterford · 15-03-2016 09:13PM

We got it in school from a very heavily pregnant woman

Shannon757 · 15-03-2016 09:16PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

We got it in school from a very heavily pregnant woman

She'd know so.

PandaPoo · 15-03-2016 09:18PM

My mam gave me a book all about periods and sex. I was morto.

School did the rest, wasn't awkward there for some reason.

MRnotlob606 · 15-03-2016 09:20PM

My parents skipped over that part.

beks101 · 15-03-2016 09:23PM

I got a book too, when I was about 14, proceeded to draw spectacles and moustaches on the funny naked humans inside it and show it to all my classmates.

As for actually learning about it, a series of incidents at school probably took care of that along with a weird sex video with a nun telling us all how "sex is a beautiful gift" when I was in 5th class. I remember even at 11 thinking "how the feck would you know?"

Peregrine · 15-03-2016 09:26PM

Never got the talk. Never even mentioned it.

We had some sort of sex education class at school in 6th class but I think I had it figured out by then.

Zaph · 15-03-2016 09:26PM

Still waiting for my folks to sit me down and have the chat. I'm 48 now, so they better get a move on.

Stheno · 15-03-2016 09:30PM

I got given a Catholic based book, full of ****e about special hugs, and horrid diagrams.

Then, to make it worse, my parents required that I write an essay (I **** you not) on what I had learned, for them to read.

There was no chat.

hairyprincess · 15-03-2016 09:32PM

I was handed a book. No conversation.

I talked to my daughter about periods and the male and female reproductive systems when she was around 11/12. It wasn't embarrassing for either of us, I kept it very ordinary.

I do know parents who refuse to discuss anything with their kids, they are happy enough to let their kids pick it up from their mates and the wee but they get at school. These are the same parents who are disgusted by breastfeeding so their reluctance to give their children accurate information about the changes to their bodies and all that that entails, unfortunately didn't come as any surprise.

sjb25 · 15-03-2016 09:34PM

Didn't really get much of a talk but in 1st year we got a talk half the class ended up kicked out over comments made

what they expect from a class full of teenage boys

15-03-2016 09:58PM

I think it was standard in the 1990s to stay quiet and hope that schoolyard gossip would cover that. At least, neither I nor any of my friends were given any talks.

Shannon757 · 15-03-2016 10:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it was standard in the 1990s to stay quiet and hope that schoolyard gossip would cover that. At least, neither I nor any of my friends were given any talks.

But if no-one knew, how would info spread?

Stheno · 15-03-2016 10:03PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

But if no-one knew, how would info spread?

Well in the seventies/early eighties, you heard about it from the "bold" girls in school, who would inspect your armpits at gymtime and ask if you had any other hair.

If you looked confused they would educate you

mfceiling · 15-03-2016 10:04PM

The joys of having daughters.

Wife "we'll need to give the talk soon"

Me "you're on your own there missus"

Stheno · 15-03-2016 10:07PM

mfceiling wrote: »

The joys of having daughters.

Wife "we'll need to give the talk soon"

Me "you're on your own there missus"

My da had seven daughters, and took on the gruesome task.

Sure you've only a couple :pac:

ShaShaBear · 15-03-2016 10:09PM

I don't remember ever getting a "talk" per say, but I also remember that when we got the obligatory lesson in 6th class (1999), I already knew everything clinically and it wasn't from schoolyard talk. I asked a lot of questions from a young age and my mother or father would answer seriously and honestly. There was never any messing with "special hugs" or any other play on words.

whatismyname · 15-03-2016 10:13PM

Seriously, let's not even go there.

tuisginideach · 15-03-2016 10:16PM

mfceiling wrote: »

The joys of having daughters.

Wife "we'll need to give the talk soon"

Me "you're on your own there missus"

Sons in my case but it's still left up to me (the mother) to discuss/inform all sex-related matters.

When my OH was going abroad for the first time (at 19 or so - a long time ago!) his GP (he had been a very sickly child so the GP was a family friend by that stage!) came down to the boat to see him off and give him a 2-min talk on the fact that he'd meet girls abroad and that there were things available that he might need!!!!

Ruu · 15-03-2016 10:17PM

Learned in sixth class, parents said nothing. Everything else learned in the playground.

jester77 · 15-03-2016 10:39PM

Never had it, had to rely on Channel 4 while growing up. Eurotrash and The Word taught me all I ever needed to know until the internet was born.

16-03-2016 12:07AM

Never got a "talk" about sex. I guess my parents just assumed I had figured it out! Got a talk alright about periods when I was 10 and that I should be expecting it soon as both by Mother and grandmother got it when they were 11. Got it eventually just before I was 14 so thought there was something wrong with me as I considered it pretty old

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