Have I turned into a prude?

[Mouseyinmyhousey]

Quite often I find myself cringing at conversations. At work, or even amongst the mums at school, where the conversation leads onto which mummy porn book they're reading, whether or not they shave or wax their fanjo, how many times a week they're having sex and how amazingly horny they are, or what they like to get up to.

I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm turning into my mother as at times I just find myself thinking, I really did not need or want to know that.

I've no problem with intimacy at all in relationships, I'm not 'shy', and I've got no problem chatting to a close friend about that sort of stuff and having a good laugh.
But when I don't know people that well I get a serious case of tmi and sometimes even wonder if people feel they've got something to prove. But I've absolutely no desire to know that a work colleague has a bald fanjo, and has sex every night. Or that the mum from school likes to be spanked.

Aibu?

spilling your guts to all & sundry, washing your dirty linen in public...all a bit 'jeremy kyle'

YANBU. I am far from a prude in my personal life but out of respect to dh there is no way I'd even think about discussing the nitty gritty with my best mate - although they're really good friends too (almost sibling-like) and she'd probably say something along the lines of 'eww' and put her fingers in her ears!

I might have a bit of a moan about baby dc's sleeping and 'coitus interruptus infantus' but there is no way anyone is hearing the ins and outs so to speak.

I can't imagine having this sort of conversation with mums at the school gate or any of my friends.

I have noted that a few of my old schoolmates have announced on Facebook that they are reading fifty shades of shite and have a bald fanjo and I also remember that they were guilty of being crass and vulgar when they were at school too.

yanbu. There is a group of school gate mums who I was vaguely friendly with and went out for drinks with a few times when DC were younger. After a couple of glasses of wines (or less) all this type of thing started coming out, I didnt know where to put myself . Although they were a good laugh it was just a bit much.

They stopped asking me out to girls' drinks, they probably thought I was really boring. Have found some other mates now who don't feel the need to overshare...

I am wondering if it is a generational thing. I agree with you, I just wouldn't dream of sharing that with anyone other than really close friends, and not even then very often. But I know younge women that will talk quite openly. I envy them their lack of inhibition I suppose but I still can't do it noe would I really want to.

I think it's a form of bragging, of bolstering your status, but then if thats what passes for status in your social circle, well....

YANBP. It's vulgar to discuss these things with acquaintances, I'm a very open person with friends but my maintenance in all senses is for discussion with very few. Unless I'm 17 again and havong a discussion with my tgen frieds about the guy from the night before.

YANBU.

I'm vulgar and crass!

ah well....

I think only the very insecure, masquerading as confident, indulge in this type of discussion.