Not only did I not have the talk, none of the women I’ve dated recently did, either. For a boy, not having “the talk” is mildly troubling, but for a girl…I’d rank that as downright inhuman. Little girl starts bleeding from her nethers and has no idea why. Must be the scariest damn thing in the world. My current gf just had her first Pap smear (at age 24). She had no idea what she was in for. That’s not parenting. Oy!
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When I was around nine my mother and I discussed What Happens When You Become A Woman, which was frankly a bit premature, given my first period was still five years away. One of her aunts was only nine when it happened, so she decided that she better tell me sooner than later.
never really got a TALK specifically… but got kid friendly answers about “special hugs” and a little room insode mommy where a baby grows… then not too far after that i got “the book”… “where did i come from” and a few years later its sequel “whats happening to me”… honestly you dont have too many questions after those… they are a bit… detailed.
I came home from school one day and there was a book on my bed. This was the mid 80s and the book looked like it came straight out of the 60’s, so it was probably the same book my Granny gave my Mom. I read it and put it back on her bed and never a word has been spoken about it since. I don’t remember much of the specific information in it, but I had learned everything that was in the book in health class at school.
My first “talk” came when my sister was born when I was 4, and I asked where she came from. I don’t really remember the talk itself, but I do remember that for a long time I thought a man and a woman had to have sex at a doctor’s office in order to have a baby. Other than that I understood the basics of how sex and pregnancy worked.
Then in 5th grade my school did the “girls in one room, boys in the other” thing to explain puberty.
Then when I actually hit puberty about a year later, my parents revisited the sex talk. Where the first talk just focused on the mechanics, the second talk focused on responsibility and precaution. I also got a book on the subject.