How did you learn about sex?

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Jaye234 · Accepted Answer

Hearing kids talk about sex at school- we knew what sex was by the time we were in the 3rd grade, but had sex ed in 7th grade.
My mom told me about sex when I was 11 after I came home asking her questions. She didn't sugarcoat anything lol I remember being appalled!

VonDamme · Accepted Answer

My mom got me a book on puberty and tried to be really open and available if I wanted to talk, but I didn't wanna talk. I oddly understood enough about it.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Figured it out by myself on the internet when I was in about the third grade. Needles to say, I started very, very early. Though when I have kids I think I'll use a parental block, don't want them starting that early like I did!

Toad-1 · Accepted Answer

Sex ed and movies did the trick

nightdrot · Answer

Ironically, all of the above - and porn. Go figure. Sex ed in school offered some information, but not the "how to." My dad was a doctor and was very explicit about it - but at 12 years old the last thing you wanted to hear about from your parents was sex. My brothers and friends talked about it - I learned a lot from my oldest brother. TV and movies - not including porn, helped a little.

Porn did not offer the most realistic view of sex, but one thing you could not miss - the mechanics were there for all to see. Whatever I got from the other sources, seeing is believing. What the other sources explained - either elliptically or graphically - porn made explicit and easy to understand.

Dr_Faust · Answer

1day im the kindergarden when i was 4 some little boi came up to me and said " hey do u want to know how chilldren are made". And he just told me in detail... christian kindergarden for you.

BlueCoyote · Answer

All the important theoretical knowledge I received from my parents. I was raised in a very easy-going and liberal way. My parents are pretty relaxed about this topic. We didn't have "the talk" as in one specific conversation. Instead, they just kept teaching me things according to my age. For example when I was around 4-5, my mom bought a book for small children that explained how pregnancy works. Every day before going to bed, she would look at some illustrations from the book with me and read a few sentences to me (and explain stuff). When I was older, maybe 8 or 9, my questions and my parent's answers became more concrete. The only real "talk" I can remember is when I was 12. It was on a Sunday morning before anyone else was up when my dad tried to talk about masturbation with me. In retrospect, I have to say he did it in an incredibly sweet and gentle way but back then I was just so terribly embarrassed and shy about the whole issue. I had started masturbating just a few months previously and wasn't completely aware of what I'm actually doing. I remember hiding my face under a pillow in shame and my dad chuckling and saying: "why are you hiding? It's nothing to be ashamed of, y'know?"

After that, my parents kinda stopped the whole sex-ed thing. They probably didn't want to make me feel awkward (teenagers can be so difficult about this). The really concrete stuff about sex that I didn't know yet was taught to me predominantly by friends and porn. One thing that might surprise Americans is that I was never taught much about STDs and that kinda thing. I feel like in America, that's about 95% of what sex-ed entails. Here in Europe, the focus lies more on sex as pleasurable and enjoyable activity (and how to make it pleasurable/enjoyable). My parents did teach me about contraception but mostly in reference to the prevention of pregnancies.

Once I finally started having sex, which was very late for a guy in a western country, I realized that a lot of my theoretical knowledge was rather superfluous. The practical, real-life things you do during sex are basically a learning-by-doing process that nobody can teach you comprehensively.

RedMatch · Answer

hmmm, id probably say, first my mum getting me a basic book, then school.

Reyna00 · Answer

Lived on a farm. And from school

InfoBot · Answer

You told me.

just_tired · Answer

From TV and movies and then the important details from sex ed in school

naughty_cat · Answer

i think the school was the first reason then my friends ,,,

MrMysteryMan · Answer

Hearing the other guys around me talking about it. Getting laid and that. Also, I happened upon my friend's dad's stash of porn as well as this really naughty tom boy I used to hang with. I still think about her to this day.

GreedyGiver651 · Answer

The fact that "the internet" is not an option seems strange to me.

HGG3805 · Answer

back seat of my 66 Mustang

Kitten967 · Answer

School

GixxerGirl · Answer

Just on the spot

skimando · Answer

Figured it by myself.

passinby · Answer

Still learning and I need much more practice.

sku11crush3r · Answer

One of my friends showed me porn when i was 10 and he was 11 😂. I kinda didn't know why would someone do such disgusting looking thing but as i grew up i understood it 😂

davidrees · Answer

School taught me the basic mechanics, but most of my learning was from friends when I was a teenager, then by experience.

EvanR · Answer

From a cattle farm... that alone should be enough for you. The actual anatomy stuff though I learned in school

Mexicoman101 · Answer

Porn. My parents never officially gave me the sex talk, I largely learned on my own.

SirRexington · Answer

I learned it from the internet. And from a girl in my neighborhood.

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