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I come from a "good catholic" family (6 kids).
Sex ed was non-existant at school, at home, and at church.
For a while, my oldest sibling, my brother, lived in Middlesex, New York, and whenever anyone asked my mom where he lived, she would whisper the name of the town. That's how off-limits talk of sex was.
The little bits I was able to pick up camee from my 4 older sisters, who were about as in the dark as I was, but older, so they had (and told me about) dating and sexual experiences before I had any.
I am grateful for that, because otherwise, I would have known LITERALLY nothing. But at no point did ANY of them mention anything to me about the existence of or the need for birth control.
Of course, most of what I heard from them was confusing and unclear, which was compounded by the fact that I had not yet figured out that I was a lesbian.
Our daughter will NOT grow up in ignorance of this topic. She turns 10 next month, and my wife and I plan to start "the talk" this year. | 
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04-04-2008, 11:30 AM
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04-04-2008, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by waitingtables  Out of curiousity, I would like to ask how many people here did not have sex while they were a teenager? I did, I was 17, which I think is considered a late bloomer anymore. But really, you too Grace, how old were all of you when you became sexually active? And then please state what you were taught about sex, was it abstinence only or a more realistice approach. | I never had sex in my life, period.
What we were taught about sex was from sex education classes in 9th grade (when I was 16) and in my senior year in high school (19). And oh yeah, sex education class even started in 6th grade, too.
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04-04-2008, 03:11 PM
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Probably didn't help that I went to an all girls high school | |
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Level up: 2%, 48 Points needed | | Mr. highway do you really wish us to believe you have never even once had sex? how old are you? | |
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04-05-2008, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady Teenage sex is going to happen whether we think it's good or bad. Best to face reality and tackle the problem then to put your head in the sand. | Best you subject your children to the teachings of God! Tell them sex is evil and they will go to hell unless they are joined in the holy bonds of matrimony! | |
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Originally Posted by wd30_uk Mr. highway do you really wish us to believe you have never even once had sex? how old are you? | 54. Maybe it is not for everybody?
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04-06-2008, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by highway80west I never had sex in my life, period.
What we were taught about sex was from sex education classes in 9th grade (when I was 16) and in my senior year in high school (19). And oh yeah, sex education class even started in 6th grade, too. | OH MY GOD. I know you meet all kinds on the internet. And I have met some of everybody. But H80W, that little tidbit is the last thing I would have ever guessed I would run across.
WOW.
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Originally Posted by waitingtables Thank you guys for being so open. I wonder when the others will tell us about their youth. | you're welcome.
and it will be interesting to see more. i wonder if there will be a correlation between any particular kind of sex ed and early sexual behaviour. also, i wonder if there will be a correlation between early sexual behaviour and outcomes later in life.
i saw some australian research on this recently. it concluded that people who became sexually active at a younger age tended to be more comfortable about sex. duh!!!! some academic research is hard to justify.
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