Parents should start having "The Talk" at 13, considering what kids are doing these days. amirite?

My parents never even gave me the talk at all...must have just assumed the talk they gave us in school in grade 5 was sufficient enough.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never got "the talk" either. But, in my family, we all basically just ignore things like "sex" and "puberty" and stuff and pretend they don't exsist. I really don't know why, but it's some sort of an implied tabboo in my household. It's actually kind of funny, because when when we're in the car and something about sex comes on the radio we all just fall silent and stare ahead of us without looking at eachother. And then someone awkwardly says something like "SO. UM YEAH WHEN WE GET TO THE RESTAURANT LET'S ALL WASH OUR HANDS, OKAY?" really loudly so as to "subtly" drown some of the radio out.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My family actually does that too. Especially the radio thing. The whole car just gets silent and someone always attempts to talk over it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How strange, my family is like that too. Whnever an extenze commercial comes on, we all have a perfect poker face until it's over. Anything about sex has never been mentioned. It's awkward as hell, but it's amusing too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My family is the same way, but when something comes on the radio my mom just changes the station.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My family jokes about it. If a Trojan condom commercial is on the radio, my sister will quote it word for word.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I like your family . . .

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My mom would never do that because to do that would be to awknowledge the fact that we are being exposed to something "innaproriate". Number One rule: Never EVER let on that anything is even wrong. Just wallow in your (and that of everyone else in the room's) discomfort and wait it out. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, NOWADAYS, 10/11 year olds should get it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

and they are. I got "the talk" in school in fifth grade.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I learned about it waaay earlier than that. But that's probably because my aunt always let me watch Maury when she babysat me...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So did mine.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never got "The Talk," my parents just figured I was smart enough to figure it out. Well, I wasn't, but Wikipedia was. hello

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Teen pregnancy rates are at a record low in the United States. They've been on the decline for decades. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6013a5.htm?s_cid=mm6013a5_w

by Anonymous 12 years ago

BUT THE TV TOLD ME THAT KIDS R SLUTZ!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I first saw porn when I was 10/11 at my friends house (his brothers computer) and my mom never censored herself about that kinda stuff so I knew at a pretty young age

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Kids having been having sex at young ages for decades. It's nothing new, just that the media makes a big deal out of things like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I never had "the talk," my parents just kind of assumed I figured it out on my own...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

cool story bro.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

People used to have the talk before thirteen? Thanks to south park and my paranoid mother, I knew about sex when I was, like, 8.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I only sort of got the talk, I got my period when I was seven and all I remember is my mother explaining to me the basics of what was happening to me and nothing about sex..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel like there's more than one "Talk". There's the preliminary one about what sex actually is, which I had around nine. This post seems to be referring to the one that discusses protection/ waiting, but I don't know. I hope I never get a follow-up Talk. The first one was bad enough.

by Anonymous 12 years ago