Some say At what age should kids learn about sex education. But question is at what age u were thought sex education and who thought u sex education?

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Who thought u sex education , parents / teachers / friends.  If no one had thought u sex education will u do the same to ur children if u have or in future if u have.

tiff_the_tranny · Accepted Answer

My parents dodged the question until I finally got frustrated and looked up sex in the world book encyclopedia (for the young people out there, encyclopedias were like wikipedia, but you had to buy them from door to door salesmen and because they were in book (take the papers your parents print out for work and bind them together and that's basically what a book is) form they were only updated once a year by a relatively small number of paid contributors) at the age of ten.

The encyclopedias in those days were by no means comprehensive, if your parents didn't throw them out and buy new ones every year they were full of outdated information (I was learning from a 1976 edition in 1991), and over the course of 15 years a few key books (B, P, and V) had been misplaced so I had very little knowledge of breasts beyond the fact that women have them, the penis beyond what I was able to glean from first hand experience with my deformed clitoris, pregnancy beyond what I witnessed with my cousins (and they didn't exactly give me a play by play, or even tell me how the baby was going to get out) or the vagina beyond limited mentions in the articles Sex, Genitals, and Mammary Glands.

So I operated for two years with large holes in my knowledge until I started sex-ed in the last quarter of my sixth grade year.

So I was ten when I learned the bare minimum basics (including an idea of the mechanics, the encyclopedia said sex occurred when the male placed his penis in the female's vagina, so until I learned how to masturbate at the age of 12 I thought he just stuck it in and kept it there while the muscles of the vagina "milked" him), and twelve when I gained a more comprehensive knowledge from my teacher, though there were some questions my teacher couldn't answer ("how do the testes produce sperm?") and some information in the distributed material that was just flat out wrong (it said a zygote undergoes meiosis. I did not learn, until three days ago when I was looking it up as a refresher for an article I was writing on another site, and at the ripe old age of 40, that meiosis is the process through which the testes produce sperm from stem cells).

ushagomez · Accepted Answer

I learned from my parents throughout my childhood whenever I asked questions horse or something they always just answered openly and honestly and explained. Obviously the more sexually aware I became the more detailed the answers. And so by the time it was discussed at school I already knew pretty much everything anyway.

I will be the same way with my children and let them learn at a natural pace. I think it is important to be completely open about such a beautiful, natural and normal pleasure.

Citizenkirk · Accepted Answer

I was born with a hard on, and in the light infantry of the US Army, us bullet stoppers drove on with the hard on, and the past 30 some odd years since then I've had a perpetual hard on, virtually non-stop since then, and rigamortis will pretty much guarantee that the last person to ever see me naked upon death, will see me sporting a hard-on, so I'd have to say the second you slide out of your mother's abused, exhausted couch, the verbal orientation of sex education should start the second your bottom gets smacked by the doctor as he's explaining to you the reason why he's cutting that cord connecting you to your mom, and why he's next going to cut that extraneous flap of skin that serves no practical purpose on the tip of your external baby making equipment, and how much happier and grateful to him, you'll be upon your honeymoon with your wife, that he cut both of them aberrations of maternal connective tissue, for you and your new wife too be, and what you can expect from then on.

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I read books on my own at age 6, but they were the books meant to be taught to 10 year olds, and it was about anatomy and the "expected changes and differences" that will come with puberty, then I actually had those classes around age 10 (elementary)

Then again at 12, the actual changes, differences, pregnancy and all, and once more around 14, just more detailed, this was middle-school

And a final at high-school, around age 16/17... where they basically told us not to be stupid and ignorant about sex.

nayans · Answer

I think kids must be taught about it, at least basic sex ed during 10 to 16 years of age. Noone taught me. I am from India and from a conservative family background. Speaking about sex is like a taboo. The most I was taught was about periods by my mom but not anything else was discussed. My mom was my best friend during my growing up years. Even during our schooling, teachers won't explain anything related to sex and they prefer skipping over the lesson than teach about it.

DaisyM23 · Answer

I kinda learnt about it on the internet through fanfics when I was about 10? We learnt about periods and puberty at that age too but only about sex from like 12 I guess? More detailed at 14ish. My parents didn’t really tell me anything about sex and I guess I was the one teaching my friends 😂

Woman1 · Answer

I think I was nine or ten and my mom taught me after receiving a notice from my school that we would cover “that unit”. She sat me down and literally pulled up diagrams (something that was quite mortifying for me at the time) and talked me all the way through. The information was never hidden. If I had asked a year prior she probably would have given me the same or a very similar answer, I was just fine knowing what I already knew at the time. Years later, it became a pretty open thing, like yeah, people have sex. In fact, I got to answer the uncomfortable questions because my siblings found asking parents too awkward.

loves2learn · Answer

Learned what sex was from friends when I was 6. I learned the mechanics of it when my friend and I found her dad’s porn stash at age 8. My boyfriend and I figured out actually having sex together when I was 18.

Beelzie · Answer

I think I was 12. They briefly taught us in school. But I mostly taught myself through some internet searching. My parents would be totally willing to talk to me about that stuff but I think it'd be way too awkward

menina · Answer

I learned about sex education at school when I was 12. My parents and my sisters would never taught me. If I ever have kids (which is kinda impossible) I plan on teaching them when they're like 14/15.

weysally · Answer

in the theory, I was told about sex when I asked questions, I did the same towards my daughters
physically, I was taught by my first lover, he explained everything to me and he also showed me what it was like to receive and to give,

andreea89 · Answer

Lol I learned very early from porn magazines I found thrown away and a boy in kindergarten who taught me how to masturbate.

Rei02 · Answer

My mother gave me "the talk", the school taught me about the body changes, the rest from the media: TV, movies, Internet, etc. Also I learnt that I prefer to watch those things without my family due to their reactions, specially from my mother who reacts negatively when there are sex, foreplay or rape scenes.

tatianamay · Answer

Honestly, I came to know the word "sex" when I was around 9? But I came to know what people do, and how babies are formed and all the stuff when I was 11. I thought babies were made when people kiss before I came to know what it was. My mom and dad didn't have the talk with me. I learnt it from my friends and everyone. I think the main cause of a lot of teenage pregnancies is because parents shy away from explaining to their kids about safe sex, and let them date, so they're not careful and boom, they have a baby at 16 or 17 and stuff. My parents did not have that talk with me and my school doesn't have sex education. I learnt from the internet, friends and literally from everything/everyone except from my parents and school.

Where I live, sex and everything related to it is a taboo, it isn't a topic which people talk about. When I become a parent, i'd make sure to have the talk with kids. I'd let them date when they turn 16, but before that I'd make sure that they know about safe sex, sex and everything.

Assi2k · Answer

When they start getting curious. I believe we all mature at different stages. Some of us are late bloomers and that's okay

Miss_Wats0n · Answer

I learnt about sex on my own and my mom helped me at some parts. I guess I was 12 then... no perhaps older... I don't remember

Alyssa11 · Answer

I kinda always knew about sex but didn’t learn the ins and outs of it until sex education when I was 10 years old.

In the future I wouldn’t want to discuss it with my children... it’s weird. They’ll think of me and their dad doing it and that’s weird lol. I’d rather they just learn at school.

Zzmaex · Answer

Around grade 6

SarahP080102 · Answer

I learned about my body at 10, and about boys' bodies shortly after.

Ailito · Answer

They taught it in elementary, and it was a few different teachers. I think I remember they gave the boys condoms.
This kid I called "heyarnold" always had them and was always a little weirdo.

Needless to say, I'm pretty sure the majority of kids I went to school with are all litterd with children.

JenniferStar · Answer

11 / 12 somewhere around there.

Laciandmaci · Answer

Hmmm mom never taught me sex ed, I just learned about it in HS. I was 14 and my health teacher taught me about it lol TBH.

elizamichale1 · Answer

Well i learned it pretty early from my parents and i wouldn't mind teaching my boys either

iboobs · Answer

By the time they’re 12. I was 11 when I learned about what sex is. From there I taught myself sex education because I never had the chance to learn about it in school.

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