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

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Never talked about it. Handed me a book for about w2nd graders when I was about 2nd grade, did not discuss or encourage discussion.

You read enough science and lit, it is hardly needful, but a family willing to discuss ANYTHING would have been nice.

They haven't talked to me about it yet.

Grade Four. All the other kids were already talking about it so I asked what it was and was told the basics of it.

I had a story book called Where do Babies Come From. I think it was told from the point of view of a kid asking their mom about sex and included all sorts of medical diagrams to explain stuff. I was probably only 2 or 3 when my parents gave it to me.

In retrospect it was kind of a weird book, but I think it did the job well. I understood the concept and my parents never had to be too embarassed to give the real answers to my questions.

They didn't... when I was 10 or 11 my mom took me to a school film that supposedly taught the necessary details. She was very uptight about the subject and I sensed it from a mile away. So when she told me afterwards that if I had any questions, I should just ask her, I realized that she did not want to be asked anything to begin with. She also chose a seat near the back of the room where she could hobnob with the other teachers but since I was nearsighted, it was difficult for me to see the screen. Most kids would learn the facts from such a film, but at the time I had recently decided that I wanted to become a doctor when I grew up following a bout with Rubella and a house call by our doctor (that was 1960 or so when doctors routinely made house calls). So I interpreted the film as some kind of vocational choice guidance film and wondered if all those other kids in the room were also planning to become doctors too. A year or two later, I asked her a very direct questions ("but how does it get there in the first place") and her reaction was to refer me back to that film that had meant nothing to me to begin with. So I did not learn anything and was ignorant throughout most of my teen years.

I finally learned the necessary details by accident about a month before my 18th birthday. I had two NT friends (one a half blind jock and the other a redneck survivalist) who were talking about nothing but their planned conquests. From them I learned that it was necessary to have a condom when going on a date. So I bought a supply of them at a gas station known to have dispensers in the bathroom. One day I was bored and wondered what it was like to wear a condom so I tried one of them on. After a while the predictable results happened and in that instant the answers to all of my questions became perfectly clear.

I learnt most of it from medical books, and never had any talks with my parents about it. They knew I knew about reproduction as it's a fundamental part of human and animal anatomy... I must have been 10 or 11 at the time...

it's kind of awesome how it works, two cells melt together, s**t starts multiplying and BAM you got yourself a kid

my mom was in med school when i was growing up and was taught quickly about all the stuff but using medical terms.

I found out when my dad had some playboy books around and I had to read it out of curosity and about 8 years old, then I was caught....then my parrents gave me a book to look at with my two friends that were boys. I am female, btw. I felt no embarrassment as one friend thought I should have felt. She was also embarassed when a boy found out she wore a bra by putting his hand on her shoulder and she knew he felt the strap. Again, I did not get this for the life of me.
My mom tried to explain it me when I was 5ish, but could not comprehend what she was saying. Something about eggs in bellies plus men...made babies. I just could not get it.
She was never squemish about talking about sexual matters though...my dad on the other hand thought I should be virgin until I was 60.

Grade Two. Not by my parents, but by other kids at school.

My parents gave me the talk when I was 8.

I don't want to make this graphic, and it is seems sorta ironic that talking about 'how I learned' is too 'adult' for this thread. Just suffice it to say, I was astonished and ashamed when I found out that all that they were doing to me was for making babies.


Merle

I had a semi-basic understanding about what sex was in sex ed around the age of 13... I knew it took a boy and girl. I uh... had to learn the rest by myself and figured out more through random information by the age of 16 or so. My parents just said to not do it... and they tried to make me ashamed if I had questions. Embarrassing enough I didn't even know what a girl really completely looked like until I was 21

I guess not knowing anything about it did keep me from doing it out of fear. Congrats mom and dad

They never did even though my mom asks about if Adderall affects my sex life

Everything I know about sex is through porn, my friends talking about sex and a sex ed class I took last semester.

They didn't. Dad wouldn't have touched the topic with a ten-foot pole (no pun intended ), and Mom just figured that since I read the encyclopedia to learn everything else, a book would be more appropriate. I guess I was about 10 or 11 at the time.

It took me much longer to be able to associate all the slang terms with the proper ones. Every now and then, I still learn a new one.