The letters S-E-X cannot be used in my culture in front of elders. So no talk of puberty or sex. Once I said bisexual and everyone freaked out. They said I'm supposed to only say bi.
Never had "the Talk" After a certain age, I think 10 or so, my parents put these children's books about sex/puberty on the bookshelf and didn't zap away when any sexual themed stuff came up on tv.
Never had the "talk" with my parents ever. I found out all these things at around 14 years old (Thanks to the internet). Had a sex ed class recently back a month or two ago and i'd say it was pretty decent, taught me about HIV and the stuff that happens to get pregnant which i never knew properly about until that class.
People at school talked about sex. I picked up bits and pieces from them. The teachers once put on a 20 minute long sex-ed video which didn't teach us anything about sex, and then, the rest was from the internet, so by the time I was having real sex-ed classes, I already knew everything
Phhh welcome to the 21st century. We have the Internet to teach us that stuff now. "The Talk" is an archaic form of education.
We have this amazing book called Being Born, and I found it on our shelf when I was about 7, and read it. I then asked my dad "eeew, did you really do that?", and he laughed and said yes...but that was pretty much it. My dad and step-mom are REALLY open about sex, so there was never really any one cohesive "talk", with the exception of my step-mom explaining periods.
I never actually got "The Talk", my parents just handed me this book that explained how it worked in the most scientific and grossest way possible.
I didn't get "The Talk" from my parents, I got it from my martial arts instructor of all people. My parents still haven't brought the subject up.
Nope. I don't ever remember getting the talk... I remember being told, when I was around 8 years old, that to get pregnant you have to eat a lot of soup. I'm pretty sure it was my mom who told me that... but when I brought it up many years later she was offended at the suggestion that she taught me such nonsense. According to her, never in a million years would she ever say anything so ridiculous. I'm not convinced it wasn't her though...
We watched more than a few graphic movies as kids (our parents didn't believe in sheltering us in any fashion), so "the talk" wasn't really needed..
Not talk at all. The most they did was buy me a cartoon book (made for kids. It was hysterical) describing the basics.
Oh boy, I've yet to have the "talk" with them but I don't think they got anything "prepared" for us. I would be VERY surprised though if either, or both, approached me about it out of the blue. Like seriously.
School basically have us "The Talk" 4th through 8th grade. My mom tried it but I just walked away. Couldn't take another one.
Never got an actual Talk. I went to Catholic schools from kindergarten through college, so sex ed in school was lacking. In fifth grade, the teachers had a week-long unit about "Our Changing Bodies" which would only cover puberty, not human reproduction. I ended up out with strep the entire week, so instead my mom gave me a book that discussed puberty for both boys and girls and how babies are made and told me to read it. In high school, we learned about STDs in our required health class and had a unit in our theology class sophomore year that was abstinence-focused. Mostly I learned from some of the more reputable sources on the internet.
Never got the talk from my family. Everything I learned came from health class and idle chatter from middle school.
My parents never cared enough to uphold an ordinary conversation, let alone "The Talk". I first learned about sex in school actually, and up to this day, my knowledge derives from classes and the interwebs. However, in a long car trip, my aunt and uncle started chatting me up and reminding me of how important the use of protection is and even offering to provide me with such protection. It was every bit of awkward one can imagine it to had been... P.S. Those pink books in the so-called "restricted"(by the students, not the faculty) section in my middle school's library were also very enlightening in every subject related to sexuality.
