Did your parents EVER talk to you about the opposite sex?

[HEyHEY]

I mean were you ever driving down the street with your Dad when he nudge you with his elbow and pointed out a woman walking down the street?
Did your mom ever ask you about how you relationship was going?

My parents, thank christ, never did any of that.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. The closest I got was...my mother (nutjob) walks into my room and says...

"Have you ever kissed a girl?"

I just looked up at her and didn't change expression or say anything. She yells, "You have, haven't you?" and storms out of my room.

[ThomCat]

2. No, but after I came out

I heard nothing but how dangerous my lifestyle choice was for almost an entire year.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Veganism?

:shrug:

[ThomCat]

9. It's hard to figure out what upset my mom more

That I was dating guys, that I would not eat any animal products, or that I became a cripple. All three happend around the same time. We didn't speak for a long time, and our relationship has been strained ever since.

I recently started dating a woman, and suddenly my mom wants to talk to me and ask me how things are going. So I think may being gay is what bothered her the most, but I'm not entirey sure.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. I had been vegetarian for a few years when I started at the health food

store. I came home and said to my mom, "You know, it's really nice to finally work somewhere that totally accepts me for who I am." She goes, "you're out at work ALREADY?!?!" And I was just like, "chill, I was talking about being a vegetarian, but oh yeah, they know I'm gay, too." Of course, in the glory days, before an asshat bought the place, it was like "The L Word" in there. After it was sold, I think one of the best customer comments ever was, "you know, I liked this place better when lesbians totally ran the place."

[bigwillq]

3. My dad would always make comments

about woman but neither of my parents ever discussed sex with me.

[Book Lover]

5. My mom summed up her position in one simple word,

"Don't"

Great education, eh? Effing Catholics.

[AngryAmish]

6. We are Irish Catholic

That sort of thing is just not discussed, dear.

[Deja Q]

7. No, but at my previous job, my boss kept pointing out women to me and

saying "Isn't she hot?" (I recently came out of the closet. I don't think he believed me...)

[LeftyMom]

Well, Dad's Catholic, so no

Mom, on the other hand, first offered to take me to get on birth control when I was 13 and continued to nag me about it for years after I took care of it myself and got de-virginized.

My Mom told me my boyfriend had a nice package once when I was in high school. I could have died right there on the spot. He did, but telling me so was a bit odd.

[ThomCat]

10. I've mentioned to my sister that her boyfriend

has a nice package. But that's just to get even with her.

She forgets my birthday every year. One year in particular I know the reason she forgot my birthday was because she was busy loosing something with her boyfriend.
:eyes:

Big brothers aren't supposed to know these things. So she's fair game for some teasing.

Besides, her current boyfriend is a bartender at a Gay Club. That's an invitation right there.

Edit for spelling

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. I soon learned that I did better NOT following my mother's advice

:-)

[Iniquitous Bunny]

12. My mother...

used to say, "I trust your boyfriend. I just don't trust you."

[Xipe Totec]

13. No. That would've spoiled it for me

It was a voyage of discovery...

And what a trip is has been...

[Samurai_Writer]

14. This was my dad's idea of 'the sex talk'

He only ever said two things, repeatedly:

Keep your legs crossed

Boys are only after one thing

Of course, being the sheltered Catholic girl that I was, I never knew what that 'one thing' was, or why I should be keeping my legs crossed. Guess that's how I got pregnant at 16, out of sheer ignorance.

[ismnotwasm]

28. That's about what I got

My mother, for some reason never said a word. Probably because my dad never shut up. Let me pull out some gems;

"Why buy the cow when the milk is free?"
"If a girl lets a man get so far, and he loses control, it's not his fault"-- regarding rape
"A man has sperm and a women has an egg" etc...(Well he tried on that one)
"There are no REAL men left" --The implication being I'd have a hard time finding one.
"Here's your birth control" A half dollar. To be placed between the knees.

I could go on. And on. In his own way, he was trying to be protective. He figured all men WERE after "one thing." And since they weren't "real" men, they shouldn't be gettin' any-- mostly because these fake men wouldn't respect the act of sex or own up to any responsibility for consequences. I probably got quite a bit more technical information than you did but...

I got pregnant at 17.

[miss_american_pie]

15. Yes

My mom is cool about sex. And my dad always comments on attractive women. No big deal. :shrug:

[Mutley]

16. Yes. God, it was awful.

My dad and my stepmother got some stupid teen magazine with an article on "having sex vs. waiting" and made me read it in front of them and ask them questions. I'm surprised I didn't become celibate for life. :scared:

[Xithras]

17. Are you kidding? My dad used to comment on my girlfriends!

"Wow, she's hot! Done her yet? She looks like she'd be fun!"

My parents had a fairly liberal sexual attitude, and had no problem talking to me and my sisters about sex. For us, it really wasn't even an issue.

Of course, liberal attitudes about sex aren't always a good thing. One of my high school girlfriends also had extremely sexually liberal parents, who even permitted us to have sex in their house ("Better here than out in the woods!") We ended up screwing like rabbits because everyone was so busy with the "Hey, it's normal, have fun" routine that nobody ever really advised us to be careful. Our daughter is living evidence of that.

[cobalt1999]

18. Not my parents, but my girlfriends dad did.

Imagine being a teenager and sitting down to a nice dinner with your girlfriends parents. Midway through dinner her dad looks angrily at me and says "I know you two are having sex" (we were too). I then heard a 2-3 minute rant about respecting his daughter and their family.

I thought he was going to kill me and was unable to form words. Thankfully, my girlfriend and her mom jumped into the awkward silence, but he continued to stare at me until I left. That was the only time an adult mentioned sex to me in H.S.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

19. Sadly, yes

More than slightly akward.

[Lisa]

20. only in the clinical sense -- my mom was a public health nurse

She had plenty of books, pamphlets, and even visual aids for everything from teen pregnancy and STDs to acne, puberty -- you name it. She was almost too enthusiastic -- the fact that I knew about the human reproductive organs from quite an early age (when the girl next door was still firmly convinced that you had to "marry a boy if you want a boy baby, and a girl if you want a girl baby") demystified the whole thing so much that I had no interest in sex as a teenager.

[evlbstrd]

21. My mom, never.

My dad would ask dates/girlfriends "Who shot your tits off?"
He now asks my daughter how many boyfriends she has, and why only one.
Both of my sisters got pregnant in high school.
Another Irish Catholic family.

[crim son]

22. My mother told me once that adult males were just like male

children, only taller. At the time I thought she was kidding, but she's right on the mark. It's why we love/fucking hate them.

[JohnKleeb]

23. My dad

uhh still does that. Used to embarass me but I really don't care.

[babylonsister]

24. Never! My mom sent me to see a movie about my menstrual cycle

with my female neighbor and her mom. :eyes:
But I'll cut her some slack because she was an orphan in her early youth, so maybe had no role model to emulate.

[Jara sang]

25. nope, thank the proverbial lord.

[NNadir]

26. My mother once remarked that she knew what I was up to with a certain

woman.

I asked her how she knew, and it turned out that my girlfriend - who was close to my mother - 'fessed up to it.

My mother's point was to tell me that she, my mother, wasn't stupid. She didn't get weird about it, or anything. It was simply a frank conversation and one of the few honest conversations we had in those days because I was a very wild young man who kept many things hidden.

I think basically my mother was scared that I would get someone pregnant. Abortion was illegal then, and in any case, my mother opposed abortion and didn't even consider it an option.

Shortly thereafter my mother died. My father, grieving, became something of a rake before settling down to a stable second marriage. At times in that period he became a little adolescent. He was always talking about what babe he found to be hot. That was odd, but I was happy for my father that he was deciding to live.

All of his girlfriends seemed so old then, but he was about the age I am now when it all happened. Now I see how one can find older women sexy. I find my wife sexy and she is about the age my stepmother was when my father married her.

[vixengrl]

27. My dad kind of taught me about boys

about the same time he taught me about self defense. Actually, he mostly taught me about self defense.

All things considered, I've not used a supinating wristlock much in my private life, except once when I was working retail.

[Blue-Jay]

29. Mom left a "health book" in my room one day.

I still remember most of a quote from it: "The penis is shaped like a thumb, but is usually larger..."

Of course, I had to test out this new information and was very pleased that I was in the "usually" catagory.