Oral sex.

I can reveal that in my early teens I was given the classic Being Born, by the aptly named Frances Bruce Strain.

dolphindaisy we have one of his framed prints.
Trying not to get cramp takes my attention Lucca

Thanks Laura. Yes should have known ???. Can’t seem to cope with all these acronyms these days…I’m 85 but people did all this in the dark ages of my yo off too….

When my kids were young Emmerdale Farm, as it was then, showed a tupping ram being fitted with a die marker harness and then let loose with a field of ewes. My puzzled daughter aged 7 said “What’s that for???”. I explained it tells the farmer when he’s kissed the girls and they’ve made babies together. “Has daddy got one?”. She asked.

Yes Jax I can relate to that

Back around 1970 we surmised that Fellatio was a Formula 1 motor racing team, and envisaged Raymond Baxter commentating on the ace Italian driver Masturbani in the Works Fellatio. Before Murray Walker’s time, alas.

When my eldest daughter was still a toddler I bought her a book called How A Baby Is Made and simply added it to her book box.
grannyactivist I remember one of my DD bringing that book home from the school library when she was young and taking it upstairs to read, then she gave it to me to read. A couple of days later she asked if I'd read it and I said yes, anticipating a nice mother/daughter chat about it. She asked "Did you understand it?" I said yes, I had.
She said, "Ok, I'll take it back to the library then"!

Tried to get an early night but sleeps evading me. Reading these posts, I’m even wider awake now!

OhMother ??

Callistemon ?

All my children had access to that book, they all read it and, as children, all had a similar matter-of-fact response to the content. Yet as adults they think it’s hilarious, and slightly shocking, that I bought it for them.

This is a great thread with many laughs along the way.

It is very true that the young think that sex was invented just for them.

grannyactivist

Callistemon ?

All my children had access to that book, they all read it and, as children, all had a similar matter-of-fact response to the content. Yet as adults they think it’s hilarious, and slightly shocking, that I bought it for them.

I forgot to add - I was pregnant at the time.
Perhaps her teacher thought she ought to know how that had happened ?

They also think that they are the first ones ever to get pregnant, with celebs instagramming their bump, writing pregnancy diaries and generally getting up my nose.

My nephew was about 7 when he read the How A Baby is Made book. His response was “I bet that made your eyes water”.

My friend and her daughter watched “The Film” at school together. Her daughter was horrified. “You did THAT three times? It’s disgusting.”

When DD2 was 4 she asked how babies were made. Thinking she was a bit too young for me to go into explicit detail, I replied, daddy gives mummy a special seed. When DH returned from work later, she rummaged in his jacket pocket and asked him where he kept his special seeds!

My neighbour’s daughter, who will now be in her fifties stopped eating tomatoes after being told the seed story.
She said she didn’t want a baby, she was probably about six.

I remember my mum taking me to the cinema in the mid 60's (I was about 8) to see a film called Helga which was supposed to be a sex education film. From what I recall it was more about pregnancy.

I do remember finding some Forum magazines on the top of my parents wardrobe. I learned quite a lot from them !!

I do think that young people are pushed into doing things they don't necessarily want to do because of the pressure from social media, music and all of the porn that is now so easily accessible.

I think this is really sad as sex seems to be seen by some young people as more of an act/performance these days than a loving connection between two people.

Atqui well if you’re weird so am I unless we re not talking about the same bit
When my son got to that age I decided he needed a chat so I went into his room one day sat on the bed and said I just want a little chat with you, he laughed and said I know what’s coming, and I said really! what? he lifted the pillow up to show me his pack of three … I said I m a bit late aren’t I ?

We had a book called Our New Baby for my children. It was a Scandinavian cartoon book, and pulled no punches. It was a lovely book with full details, but in a loving context - a family who had adopted a child also featured. It was in with all the other books for them to read when they wanted.
Unfortunately they always seemed to pull it out when my parents arrived and demand that they "Read book!" parents were a bit embarrassed!

But....my DDs had a vast amount of knowledge to impart on the subject and my youngest was giving very popular sex education talks in the playground when she was about 4!!

A story is told by Gervase Phinn, the author who had been a schools inspector. In one group of children one of them kept calling out “I know how babies are made”. He kept putting her off and eventually agreed she could tell him privately. So when she got her opportunity, she said “To make babies you leave off the y and add ies”

Great!

I also love his story of going to one Catholic school where the children were doing art. One little girl had drawn a picture of a lady kneeling down beside a lake.

"Oh that is lovely - tell me about it."
"That is Mother Mary and she is praying for the sick!"

Love it.

Nothing to do with oral sex of course!

pensionpat

Perhaps a bit long but maybe of interest whilst enduring a sleepless night perhaps.

As American as Apple Pie
Fellatio has a long and storied history, but not until 1972—with the release of Deep Throat—did it come out, so to speak, in polite company. From the Wild West to the Wild White House, the author explores the blowjob’s emergence as the nation’s signature sex act.

By Christopher Hitchens

Here's the link

www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/07/hitchens200607

Lizzie did you never read lady chatterlys diary it went around the school like wildfire

Elizabeth1

Hi there I really wonder what planet some folks live on

Yes, Elizabeth, I read Lady Chatterly’s Lover . Your previous comment was ambiguous; I wasn’t sure whether you felt oral sex was outrageous or that we were all being naive?