If you learned about sex on the playground…

[CareIessWispa]

… did you pick up any inaccuracies that stayed with you?

Long before the internet, I grew up in a strict Catholic household where sex was a dirty word so I didn’t have a clue until I was 9 and my 10 year old best friend decided to tell me all I needed to know.

Her parents were quite liberal and had given her a book. She described everything in gleeful detail including a very graphic overview of male genitalia.

All good until about 7 years later and 16 year old me was face-to-face with the real thing for the first time and very confused about why the testicles were located below the penis and not flopping around on top like the hair of some 90s boybander.

No idea how I got that one so very, very wrong.

Me too 😂

Some do 😂

Not specifically about sex but a boy in year 6 told me the word penalised meant being paralysed from being kicked in the penis. It still feels to me that is what the word SHOULD mean 😂

I thought that sex involved a boy weeing on you, and that women just had babies when they were old enough, it was just something that happened. Didn't connect the two at all. An older friend told me about periods and I was horrified and didn't believe her. But she made it sound like you just bled constantly.

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That's brilliant!

I too grew up with a very catholic mother. I remember hearing on the radio someone had been imprisoned for rape. I asked my mum what it meant, she wouldn't answer. So I looked it up in a dictionary. Then had to look up sex, lead into quite a spiral of discovery. My mum bought me "a book" not long after but I wasn't allowed to discuss it :D I'm a biology teacher now. I explain everything

Same! Because that’s how it looked in the Usborne book.

We had lessons in school in year 5, one girl was pulled out by her parents so another smuggled the illustrated booklet we had in the classroom out at break and we all delighted in showing her the illustrations and recounting what we had just learned, none of us know before the lesson (her parents would have been better off her having the balanced scientific lesson!)

Most of my sex education came from Just Seventeen magazine problem pages or the position of the fortnight in More Magazine.

Thank found a porn video at home and also caught my parents at it once.

I think those were my lessons?!

I will honestly say though that I don't really think I found my clitoris until my mid twenties...

I went to a really progressive school and we had sex sex lessons from six so I can't really remember a time not knowing how they were made. I still remember the book How Babies are Made 🤣

Is that not how it's done?!

We got the theory at school, in year 4 and again in year 7. I got the practical sussed at 14, on my uncle's farm just north of Stockholm.

Also very Catholic household 🙋🏼‍♀️ my parents didn't have sex before marriage (and they got married in 1987!) and they wanted their kids to be the same (!) so I had very little knowledge at all. I remember being 11 and thinking you only had sex to make a baby, so confidently told my sisters in front of my mum that her & dad must've had sex just 3 times 🙈 mum spluttered and said slightly more than that! I said well 10 then! No idea why we were talking about that now but it's stuck in my brain under 'cringe moments'.

I thought that until I was 16 and asked to give one. The word had been used on the playground for years with the assumption everyone new what it was, so I had no reason to think it wasn't what it sounded like.

I read about it in an encyclopaedia with a diagram. For ages I thought there was no movement involved - just lying completely still with the penis in the vagina!

We had the older sister of a friend tell us 'of course you don't blow, you suck!'

So, I then spent a few years thinking you had to suck it really hard to draw the sperm out

I don't know where I got this idea (must have extrapolated from snippets of information)

I thought the man and the woman stood motionless with the man's willy in her until the woman told him that it was enough and she was pregnant. If the man's willy was left in for longer, that's how you got twins 😳

Not from school but, I remember being around 5 or 6 and being off school poorly. There was an educational programme on TV where a woman was giving birth by caesarean. The procedure was explained by the narrator but not shown in any detail. In my mind, they cut a circular hole in the side of her abdomen to extract the baby and then just sort of left it open. For several years, I thought this was how all babies were born and thought it sounded terrifying.
When I had dd, ds was 6 and became very interested in how his sister had been appeared. He'd had bits of information prior as I've always answered his questions as honestly as possible, but he had never asked about the actual mechanics of conception. I explained, in an age appropriate way, and with the aid of a children's book called 'where do babies come from?', and he looked at me horrified and said 'errrrr, my dad did that to you? Twice?!'

Sounds like my mum. There was a front page headline about the rape of an 11 year old girl and she wouldn’t tell 11 year old me what it meant.

I found out from a Harold Robbins novel. The penny dropped and I threw the book across the room in shock.

I can’t even remember who told me (some friend or other) but I was still only about 10 and it was a great relief to find out, since I’d asked my mother when younger, how a young boy neighbour could be the absolute spit of his dad, when the baby grew inside the mother?
She fobbed me off - too embarrassed I suppose. But it really bothered me until I found out.

However when finally Doing the Deed for the first time at maybe 16, I was startled to find that his willy went hard! A schoolfriend asked me what it was like and I told her it had gone hard ‘like a stick’! 😂

When President Clinton’s affair was in the news, I asked my mum what sex was and she told me “a lot of kissing and cuddling”. Which made sense to 6 year old me, you shouldn’t do that with a lady who isn’t your wife. My older brother overheard and told me the truth, but I didn’t believe him because it sounded so disgusting.

I also remember thinking that a virgin is someone who gets pregnant without having sex. The dangers of going to a church school!

He promised to wear a tampon

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