# The random and embarrassing questions teenagers ask their parents **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539 "2014-04-20T13:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/21 "2014-04-21T23:55:32Z")
> [@Cerealbox](#): > > you just blew my mind. > > I would argue the urethra is a tube, not a hole. Ditto all the other “holes” in question. ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/22 "2014-04-22T01:21:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The urethra is not part of the vagina. Back to Biology 1 with you! Of course. But too often “vagina” is used to mean the whole visible part of the female anatomy. If a [twenty-something female](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgvEr9uibI&sns=em) can’t get it right, I wouldn’t expect a 13 year old boy to know. And looked at a certain way, the opening just at the labia minora, does in fact contain two openings: the vagina and the urethra. So there. [http://www.nva.org/images/vulvar\_anatomy.jpg](http://www.nva.org/images/vulvar_anatomy.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cerealbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Cerealbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerealbox)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/23 "2014-04-22T02:30:45Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Ditto all the other “holes” in question. Eye sockets are pretty hole-like. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/24 "2014-04-22T11:23:33Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The vagina has a single hole; > The genitalia, two; > Or else the other way around. > I’m never sure. Are you? > –Ogden Gash Golf clap. Make that two golf claps - one for the poem, one for the name of the poet. And if a vagina has a hole that constitutes the entrance, does the cervix also count as a hole? Apropos of nothing, I detest the term “hole” in reference to the human body. For some reason, it makes me deeply uncomfortable when my SO refers to her vagina as a “hole into my body”. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/25 "2014-04-22T16:16:55Z")
> [@headstone\_hottie](#): > > My youngest when he was around 8 or 9 asked me what a prostitute was. I told him that its someone who walks the streets. He said, no mother thats a pedestrian… Haha! That’s quite funny. My son, at 11, asked me what a Brazilian was and without a brain in my head, I told him it was a person from the country Brazil. \ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/26 "2014-04-22T21:12:23Z")
Are you sure the question wasn’t “How many O’s in vagina?” Meaning the kid simply needed a spelling lesson. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/27 "2014-04-22T22:01:32Z")
This is becoming a GQ really quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/28 "2014-04-22T22:54:41Z")
So…why the carrot question? Did you, in fact, ever come home to find him wearing a carrot costume? ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/29 "2014-04-22T22:55:55Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/30 "2014-04-24T09:18:58Z")
> [@flight](#): > > Just had to explain to a woman in her late 20s that she had three holes down there, not two. Amazing how it is possible not to know this. Just _why_ did you have to explain that? Our gynae did tell us the story of how he had to explain the mechanics of getting pregnant after testing and finding that both parties were healthy - but not sure if he was telling an urban legend or not… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/31 "2014-04-24T14:12:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Your dad deserves something especially nice for father’s day. But not from his kid. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/32 "2014-04-24T15:10:07Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Just _why_ did you have to explain that? > > Our gynae did tell us the story of how he had to explain the mechanics of getting pregnant after testing and finding that both parties were healthy - but not sure if he was telling an urban legend or not… A friend was surprised her preteen daughter was ignorant of some basic sex facts, so while hanging out with my girlfriend (41) and another female friend (29 I think), they went over the basics. Later I discussed it with the 29 year old and clarified some of the stuff she was iffy about herself. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/33 "2014-04-24T16:34:15Z")
> [@StayseaDee](#): > > I remember asking my mother what a blow job was after an episode of Roseanne mentioned it. > > She laughed and said “it’s nasty, never do it.” A girlfriend’s mother told her that “It’s something men do to humiliate women”. Luckily, she forged her own path (not just for me, haha, but that’s not a real healthy attitude towards sexuality). ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/34 "2014-04-24T17:21:06Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > Apropos of nothing, I detest the term “hole” in reference to the human body. For some reason, it makes me deeply uncomfortable when my SO refers to her vagina as a “hole into my body”. Yeah, me too. Much prefer ‘opening’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/35 "2014-04-24T18:35:09Z")
“Entrance” seems more inviting… ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/36 "2014-04-24T18:42:03Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > My god, why hasn’t this been taken to GQ? because it’s funny and GQ is not … How many holes are there anyway? and are sure the carrot thing was innocent? ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/37 "2014-04-24T19:50:25Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > “Entrance” seems more inviting… Front door, back door, pee(p) hole. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/38 "2014-04-25T02:32:30Z")
After going on a grocery run as a teen where once again pads were on the list, I got home asked my mom almost without thinking why she wanted pads since she was well into her fifties. She said uh continence problems, question I wish I had not asked. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539/39 "2014-04-25T03:26:39Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > “Entrance” seems more inviting… Well, going by the original manufacturer’s specs and user manual, I think it would be more correct to call two of them “Exits” and one and “Exit/Entrance” Okay, one of the exit onlys can be used as an entrance, but it was never engineered for that. No matter what Red Forman says. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-random-and-embarrassing-questions-teenagers-ask-their-parents/686539.md?page=1)