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[qbetzforreal]

School- the S@x Ed class

[depglass]

I remember it vividly.  A girlfriend and I were walking down the sidewalk in the fifth grade.  She told me the scoop and said if the woman wants a baby and the husband doesn't, she can do it to him when he's sleeping. 

[DoneTryin]

Think back to the mid-50s:  When I was about 7 mom told me about what happens with girls in their early teens, but it was vague & confusing & I really didn't understand.  A couple of years later, in a different city, older neighbor kids told it rather crudely, with euphemisms.  My first thought was, "MY parents don't do that."  Couple years after that, in another city/neighborhood, the girls in my sixth-grade class & I were sent to the school cafeteria to see "the movie."  The adults taped black construction paper to the doors' windows so the boys couldn't peek in.  THEY got an extra recess that day!  Naturally, they were wildly curious about what was going on, but we girls wouldn't tell them.

All-in-all, terrible ways of learning about such important biology!

[YorkieonmyPillow]

  My mother never told me ANYTHING - which is good, because she had such a negative attitude about it, whatever she would've told me would've been useless and I doubt she even knew enough herself to tell me much of anything as she considered it "nasty."

  UGH.

  When the time came she did hand me a little pamphlet.

  I asked her one time what ovaries were - she said, "I'll tell you later." She never did.

 

[Meowingkitty]

I found out about it through school and friends. My mother was so shy and meek that she never told me anything. That was something (among others) that she could never talk about. I had to find our about it on my own. I was so clueless I thought once you got married God did something to your insides and bam, you could now have a baby. Stupid I know.

[Preds]

I have no clue, but when I came home and tried to ask questions my mother told me I'd find out about that stuff when I got married.  LOL  Nope ... went and asked my dad.  He tried his best to explain and I finally let him off the hook by telling him it was okay and that I had learned in school.  My poor dad.  He never let me down.

[athenian]

I heard in 4th grade from 5th grade boys.  I think the words were hot dog and bun.  This didn't make sense, so I went home asked my mother as she was getting dressed for a dinner party.  Bless her, she got shirt cardboards and pens and explained and illustrated.  I'm sure it was the last thing she wanted to discuss at that moment.

(Does anybody else remember shirt cardboards?  My dad traveled, and sent his shirts to the laundry, and they came back neatly folded around a piece of cardboard, which made them easy to pack.  Those cardboards were my art and craft paper.)

[151949]

I grew up on a farm so knew the basics - had seen many baby animals born and when the mating was going on my Mom would tell us the male was putting the baby in there for her.

[DoneTryin]

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@Meowingkitty wrote:

I found out about it through school and friends. My mother was so shy and meek that she never told me anything. That was something (among others) that she could never talk about. I had to find our about it on my own. 

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Yikes!  This kind of reminded me of the Stephen King novel "Carrie".  My mom wasn't shy or meek, but she was very embarrassed about all of it.  I can only guess how little good info she got as a young girl, if any at all.

[Trinity11]

I was probably around 8 when my mom explained to me the difference between girls and boys. She was way ahead of her time and was very comfortable telling me about the birds and the bees. Myself, I was pretty naive and not really all that interested....wanting to get back to playing Tiddly Winks. LOL.