When did you first learn about the "birds and the bees?"

[ZombieNixon]

Poll question: When did you first learn about the "birds and the bees?"

I first heard the term "having sex" at age 6, when my best friend and I were playing in the park and a couple walked in, making out. "Don't look at them," my friend said. "They're having sex. People don't like people to watch when they're having sex." :rofl: I heard strange rumors about where babies came from at age nine and got "the talk" a few months later. :wow:

[_testify_]

1. I told my mom it was time to explain it to me.

I was tired of not getting the jokes.

[LeftyMom]

2. I was seven

A six year old friend of mine and I got the talk from her *ahem* experienced older sister.

We were damned lucky that she gave us realistic information because neither my very Catholic father nor thier 700 club watching, really really fundie mother was about to explain things. By the time I got to sex ed (or Family Life Education or whatever lameass euphamism was in use at the time) a few years later in the 5th grade it was mostly old news.

And somehow I managed not to have sex for ten years after sex and birth control were explained to me. :shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

5. Hey, me too...

I didn't quite understand the mechanics until age 15 anyway. :blush:

[LeftyMom]

6. Other than a few fine details I had it all figured out really.

By the time I was actually ready to try the thing out I was something of an expert as a friend had swiped a sex manual from her mom and let me read it.

I was not super clear on what the masculine equipment looked like though, since the illustrations in sex ed stuff tend to be a bit of a joke.

[_testify_]

7. It was the same for us guys

Sort of, "I'll know it when I see it!"

[Capn Sunshine]

3. I was seven

It was 1958. My best friend's parents thought kids should know by third grade; they got him a book , illustrated and strange, real models(!) and he showed it to me.

When I first heard how it was done I didn't believe it. Even seeing the pics, it didn't make any sense compared to the impression I had fromthe movies.

Then we rode our Bikes - mine was a Schwinn, his a Raleigh- to the store to buy penny candy.

[MiniMandaRuth]

4. Fourth grade....

:scared:

We have the last half of sex ed next week...

The guy is talking about 'relationships' and 'the differences between guys and girls'

And, as I put it:

"If you don't know the difference YET, you have problems!"

[deadparrot]

8. My best friend in kindergarten.

She had two older sisters, and told me everything. :)

[LSdemocrat]

9. No one moment, just an accumulation of "knowledge" from age 9 onward

Generally picked up myths from other kids talking about their older siblings, here and there from parents, sex ed in 5th grade, and so on.

[In_The_Wind]

10. Over 50 years ago.

[reyd reid reed]

11. I was six, I think

It was the same year I learned about Santa (they gently told me that on Christmas Eve). The Santa mechanics I understood right away.

The mechanics of sex didn't click for a couple of years...'til I was twelve, I think.

[mykpart]

12. I learned from my older sister, who

told me as soon as she learned, which was when she got her first period. Before that, I knew where babies grew, but not how they got there. My mother was June Cleaver with a weight problem.

[gkdmaths]

13. Mom tried when I was about 12. but failed miserably.

then I went on "assuming" (by way of nebulous and sanitized public school "sex ed") how the bird did the bee untill i was !*)!*^ years old.

when I was !*)!*^ years old, I got a girlfriend. That's when I really learned.

read !*)!*^ as, "what? You're breaking up. I'm going through a tunnel".

[u4ic]

14. In the 8-10 range

A friend had a book; something to the effect of "Where Do Babies Come From?"

I couldn't have expected my mother to tell me; she didn't even tell me about getting my period. :eyes: (I'm glad my next oldest sister told me, or I would have ended up like my oldest sister...freaking out about bleeding, getting a band aid, and not knowing where to put it...true story. :rofl: )

[auntAgonist]

15. uh what about them?

:shrug:


:rofl:

[Fleshdancer]

16. I was 5 when I asked my mom. She told me everything.

She didn't make up stupid names for the genitalia and she didn't lie about anything. For that, I will always be grateful. I was the one the other kids went to if they thought they could get pregnant by getting touched "down there". I was the one other kids went to when they thought they would go blind by masturbating. The stupid things "adults" tell children is ridiculous.

When I was older (7 or 8 I think) my mom bought me books on the human body, personal hygiene and where babies come from, etc. I read them but I knew most of the information already. The books gave me my first visuals of reproductive organs so that was new I guess. I remember having slumber parties and certain friends would spend soooo much time reading and looking at those books. I remember thinking how odd it was that they didn't already know about all that stuff. :)

[Wapsie B]

17. It sure wasn't at home

or in Health class in school. More just word of mouth from those already having sex in their early-mid teens.

[Broken_Hero]

18. when i was 14yrs old

my dad found a Penthouse under my pillow(yeah not a good hiding spot) and he basically said this...

"Son, you have to treat women with respect, do you understand that son?'

"Yes, dad."

"Okay son, just as long as you remember that, you will do okay"

"okay dad"

That in a nutshell was my birds and bee's talk, about 30 seconds...

[SofaKingLiberal]

19. yesterday

:silly:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I asked where babies came from when I was about 5...

My mother broke out anatomical charts and explained everything in clinical detail. Except all I really could have handled was "inside their mommies". So I didn't listen. When I was ready to learn more a couple of years later, she said, "I already told you about all that!"

End of discussion.

[Bucky]

21. I found out about the birds at age 9. The bees came much later.

Trivia: originally the facts of life were referred to as "The birds, the bees, and the handcuff scratches on mommy's bedpost". But in the Victorian Era that got cleaned up a bit.

[JohnKleeb]

22. Younger than 8

Sigh sex.

[TimeChaser]

23. I knew about the biological stuff really early

I was a science nerd. I read a lot of stuff about anatomy growing up. It wasn't until a lot later that I learned that sex was supposed to be fun and enjoyable and not just for making babies. >>

[texanwitch]

24. I don't remember the exact age I learned but I figured out on my own

staying with my Grandparents on their farm watching the bull with cows.