I was the sex ed go-to girl at my college paper. I'm unsure if it was because I had the office with a door, or because they thought I was a slut.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Daisy Jane - Aug 23, 2010 12:51:34 pm PDT #29702 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 12:53:59 pm PDT #29703 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We had sex-ed in 8th grade of the Lutheran school I went to. It was all "Premarital sex is bad, homosexuality is bad, m-kay."
Daisy Jane - Aug 23, 2010 1:00:55 pm PDT #29704 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm pretty sure that's the kind my staffers got, because they were all "UTI! WTF!?!"
amyth - Aug 23, 2010 1:08:36 pm PDT #29705 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Catholic school sex-ed filmstrip was in the 4th grade. But it was so vague I still didn't really get it until I got my hands on a romance novel several months later. I was all, "Oh THAT'S what they meant! Okay."
High school sex-ed talk was mortifying, and also really offensive, since I was at an all-female school, and the talk was given by the school priest. It basically boiled down to, "If you get a boy aroused to a certain point, he can't be held responsible for his actions because of some biological bullshit, so DON'T DO IT, LADIES."
barf.
Toddson - Aug 23, 2010 1:13:04 pm PDT #29706 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The closest we came to sex-ed in my school was a talk that was supposed to be about menstruation but was so full of euphemisms that I had no idea what they were talking about until after it'd happened to me ... and then my mother had to tell that THIS was what they meant and here's a pad but make sure you dispose of it discreetly. For sex-sex basically it was "don't".
tommyrot - Aug 23, 2010 1:15:24 pm PDT #29707 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We also had sex-ed in our public high school. Lots of info on conception and all that.... and at one point our teacher said, "...so you can see how getting pregnant is pretty unlikely."
Ugh.
amyth - Aug 23, 2010 1:16:44 pm PDT #29708 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I learned about menstruation and birth control from Seventeen magazine. Good old Seventeen.
Also, eyeliner.
Connie Neil - Aug 23, 2010 1:16:57 pm PDT #29709 of 30000
brillig
Thank god for the home medical guide stashed in a corner of the family book shelf and its surprisingly clear, if overly romantic, section of sexuality.
beth b - Aug 23, 2010 1:20:18 pm PDT #29710 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I think it was 5th grade that we saw the movie --girls only -- and there was a book. Details were just enough for me to be baffled by why ANYONSE would do that.
I'd guess 8 to 10 is a good age to have some basic info even if they don't ask.
my favorite story was from a co-worker . her daughter and friend were in the back seat -- talking about how -- and they were so wrong that she couldn't help it -- she stop gave them the brief details. They were appalled and ten she realized she gave the Talk to a child that was not her own, so she was appalled. But they were just so wrong
Zenkitty - Aug 23, 2010 1:24:55 pm PDT #29711 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Details were just enough for me to be baffled by why ANYONSE would do that.
That was pretty much my reaction too. I got my learnin' from a book, as usual. I was all, well that's really interesting, but I'm never gonna do it! Didn't want kids anyway, so that's cool. Aaaand back to the dinosaurs.