How old were you when your parents first talked to you about

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The school psychologist and guidance counselor told my parents autistic kids too immature to hear about sex and they should wait. This led to some interesting conversations witth other kids who made fun of my naivety. I think I finally looked it up in the dictionary when I was ten. and when the school found out that I was batter informed, they called a meeting in which they called my parents irresponsible and started monitoring every move I made.

I had an interest in the reproductive system when I was a kid so I was pretty well informed quite early on. My mum told me how it all worked before I was 10, and I'd read science books with close up microscope images of sperms reaching eggs and stuff.
I don't think you're parents should have been called irresponsible for letting you read the dictionary, that's just over reacting. You were bound to find out yourself anyway, most kids do.

I grew up in a rural setting where I often saw dogs, horses and/or cows "stuck together", and I heard things said by other people my age at school ... and I finally "figured it out" maybe just a little before I arrived at puberty ... and then one night I told my parents I wanted to ask them whether I was understanding correctly. My mother explained a little about how urine and semen could flow though a common duct, and my father straight-out lied and said penetration *never* takes place ... and that left me befuddled after having seen animals mate.

A seventh-grade health teacher eventually made a big difference for me after telling all of us he was going to be giving us the real meanings of all the sex-related words he knew many of us were already using out on the playground, and many things finally made sense after that class. However, I was well into High School before I learned what was going on during "wet dreams", and even then my father had only said something like, "Well, that is just something that happens" without telling me *what* was happening.

They never talked to me about it. I discovered it myself by accident when I was 8 or 9 while reading a book about pregnancy (they included a chapter on how pregnancy occurs). The only reproductive-related thing my parents told me is when my mom tried to tell me about menstruation. I didn't fully grasp the concept of that until it actually started happening to me when I was 13.

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I don't recall my parents ever sitting me down and talking to me about sex. If it happened, it obviously didn't stick. I remember learning about it mainly from school, both in classes and from other kids.

I figured it out myself when I was 11 and I proceeded to watch porn from then on.

I heard about it at school and had to ask at home for the details... I was about 8 or 9, I guess. Until then, I knew it took a man and a woman to have a baby, and I knew it wasn't a stork delivering the baby in a sheet, or anything weird. I knew the baby grew inside the mother, and so on, and that the father had to give something to make the baby start, from as early as I can remember thinking about it. As far as sex being some kind of an issue more than to cause a baby, I probably didn't care (or care to know) until 9 or 10, and then I got more knowledge from other kids at school than at home. Probably not the best way to learn, but sure is better than the dreadful way that some kids learn; by getting molested. I was a very late bloomer; not having any interest in girls until late teens.

Knowledge is power, and power is defense, and I think all kids should be given the basics of sexual behavior at very early ages, but with careful explanation to avoid "weirding them out", or anything. If they know that certain feelings and sensations are to be kept aside for adulthood, and they are told why, it could possibly prevent a few problems.

Charles

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I think I was eleven. My parents didn't tell me much. I had to learn most of what I know about it from other sources.

I've learned about sex, by looking at a detailed illustration of what the act looks like, when the body parts are fused together. That happened to me, at the age of 10.

Don't really know how old I was, but young. When I started asking, they got out anatomy books and all that, went into all the details (using correct medical terminology, etc.). Oddly enough, later, when I'd correct misconceptions about sex on the playground, I was the one who got laughed at for believing such ridiculous notions!

I learned it gradually from the good old TV.