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Having learnt all i needed to know about sex before the event from a whole bunch of sources....
Actually, i'll list them:
- Magazines and newspapers (normal, but with agony aunt sections)
- TV
- Radio (late night agony aunt sessions)
- Internet (Wow, what a resource when you're trying to learn about sex)
- Books (fiction)
- Peers (Generally mixed opinions and ambiguous facts, sometimes contradictions)
- School (Good sex ed from even before high school)
...i never really had "the talk" from my parents, and when it finally came around to that conversation i remember my mother saying to my Dad "Why don't you have a chat to your son about the birds and the bees?" and i answered "Why? What does Dad want to know?".
It's kind of a running joke now, we re-enact it now and then.
Anyway, personally, i didn't miss "the talk" at all from my parents because i was lucky enough to have a whole range of resources from which to learn the theory. Plus i was curious about it enough since puberty to search out the information for myself from things like my older sister's girlie magazines and the internet.
For kids who aren't as lucky as i was, i imagine that "the talk" would be very important to them. Maybe for girls in particular it is important to have that kind of comunication with their mothers since IMHO there are more issues for girls on the whole subject of sex. Do you (ladies) agree with that?
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