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Maybe a few years ago. I started feeling more at ease talking about sex with my close friends and now I'm pretty open to that. Some people I don't want to talk to about it, because it's in an inappropriate context, to me anyway. I don't particularly want to talk about sex to everyone.
With family, I don't talk about it. I am not religious and neither were my parents but we never spoke of sex much, except when they said I had to go on the pill if I wanted to date a guy 5 years older than me. I guess it's a little taboo...but only because I never wanted to talk about it with them. I guess they never volunteered much either. They did give me a book about sex at one point though. It was very graphic!
What I've learned is through experience, other people, and what I've seen and read.
I feel there are still some taboos in my head. Social ones mainly. Hopefully with time and more experience they too will be broken. I am quite communicative so the tendency for me is to talk things through.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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