around the age of 11 or 12, there was a sex education class and my teacher told me how an egg and sperm become a baby (sorry for my poor expression)
i got that how that works but the question was how to get sperms. i have my eggs but how can you get sperms? are they floating in the air?
i asked that question to my mom
THE ⭐️ END
@mametsuko
Can't say I knew everything about sex when I was a kid, but I feel like I knew a bit more.
At 7-8 I understood sex was something special and private that happened between a man and a woman, and I knew it was connected to making a baby.
As a boy, I also somehow knew, maybe by instinct, that it had something to do with the penis.
By age 12, I was definitely exposed to porn, so I had a clear enough picture.
Thing is, I never had anyone to explain sex to me. And by the time we had "sex ed", as part of Biology class, all I was really missing was some anatomy details.
I kinda managed to pick up things from TV, movies, shows, bits and pieces of info gathered from all over the place and stitched together. I even understood that having sex without preservatives is a big no no.
My personal experience, of just how few sex talks I was given (basically zero), and yet I managed to gather the important information, leaves me completely flabbergasted of how America has a massive teenage pregnancy problem that is attributed to kids having a lack of information about sex.
@mushroom_soup @mametsuko
Sometimes I think that I was the strange kid.
There are a few topics I managed to get a grasp on as a kid before school came into the picture. Another big one that also makes me question American culture is the whole theory of evolution thing. I remember having a grasp of the main mechanism of evolution and some arguments in favor of the theory well before I had any Biology classes.
But as a kid, I also loved watching Documentaries. Even more so than cartoons. So it's not like that knowledge came from nowhere, but maybe I was the anomaly.
@mushroom_soup @mametsuko
Yeah... but I imagine it's a bit worse for girls. I doubt many guys would be that scarred by The Talk.