I got 'the big talk' when I was about 7 or 8. Being a child of the 80's there was a lot in the media about AIDS, safer sex etc and as far as I remember I initiated the discussion by asking what a condom was.

My Mum and my Sister sat me down and talked about it, complete with diagrams of both sperm and egg and actually showed me a condom which was rolled on to two of my Sister's fingers for demonstration purposes! We also had a couple of 'How the body works' books at home and then when I was 11 we were taught about it in school.

Actually every two years the subject was covered in school, in slightly more detail each time so that by the time I did 'A'-Level Biology it was prettty much only discussed on a cellular level.

As far as what 'real sex' is like, I learned that from novels, films, magazines, speculating amongst friends. Also, when I was aged about 16, an old Encyclopaedia of Love and Sex appeared on my bed, which my Mum had obviously found and thought might be of interest to me! I was quite embarrassed but she never said anything about it to me face to face and it was invaluable for information and masturbation purposes! Lol

I didn't become sexually active until I was nearly 18 and I firmly believe that the wealth of information available to me prevented my curiosity from getting the better of me at a younger age, which may have caused me to rush into sex before I was emotionally mature enough for it.

My sex education continues on a daily basis, thanks to Pixies!

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