Originally Posted by Boiler

We did not, any advice?

Originally Posted by Leslie

That's what the internet is for. Which is exactly where all of these kids are going to learn. Much better than the old days where we had to learn about it on the playground.

Originally Posted by Leslie

That's what the internet is for. Which is exactly where all of these kids are going to learn. Much better than the old days where we had to learn about it on the playground.

Originally Posted by Leslie

Erm ... how did you learn about how homosexuals practice sex?

Originally Posted by dc koop

I'll tell you straight Leslie. . Some kids at my school used to talk about "bum boys" After a while I learned that it meant men who "did i in the back end". Bit of a surprise at the time but at eleven years of age just about everything is a surprise. There were plenty of names for these men, none of them nice but that was a long time ago.

This is not intended to insult or offend any gay members by the way but just to answer your somewhat directly put question

I never learned much of anything about sex from my parents. They just weren't the type to talk about the subject. There was no sex instruction at schools either at that time. There were some vague comments about going "blind" or "hairs growing on the palms of my hands" when my mom discovered a boatload of girlie magazines under my bed but that was the nearest I got to learning anything at home but by that stage I was pretty well clued up on sex anyway.

Like most kids of my generation sex instruction consisted of whispers and sniggers and scribblings and drawings on lavatory walls.

I knew very little about the diseases caused by sexual contact until I went into the army and like all soldiers learned through watching some rather graphic and frightening training films on the subject provided by the Medical Corps

Originally Posted by robin1234

Homosexuality: A Frank and Practical Approach to the Social and Medical Aspects of Male Homosexuality, by D.J. West, published 1955, from the school library. It's a bit dry, and now that I think about it, even though it is "frank" I'm not sure it actually got into the practical aspects.

Originally Posted by Leslie

Kids today have access to so much more information and some of it will be wrong, shocking, and confusing. They'll work it out eventually. There's really no need for everybody to freak out so much.

Originally Posted by moneypenny20

Exactly. Kids don't need to know everything regarding sex. They don't want to know everything. When they ask a question they just want an answer not a lecture. Reminds me of something I was reading the other day. A guy was sitting with his brothers and his dad and his dad remembered the day 20 odd years back when his son asked him where he came from. The dad sat all the boys down and explained in detail. Turned out all the son wanted to know was whether he'd been born in a hospital or at home.

Originally Posted by Leslie

I honestly believe that, in many cases, it would be better to let the kids figure it out themselves rather than be educated by parents with warped and ill informed ideas about sex.

Originally Posted by robin1234

Homosexuality: A Frank and Practical Approach to the Social and Medical Aspects of Male Homosexuality, by D.J. West, published 1955, from the school library. It's a bit dry, and now that I think about it, even though it is "frank" I'm not sure it actually got into the practical aspects.

Originally Posted by robin1234

[I]"frank"

Originally Posted by Dorothy

Ah, well a bit dry is where it all started going wrong. KY is apparently the go.

Originally Posted by robin1234

Yes I think Dr. West did mention that, although I don't think KY had been invented back then.

Originally Posted by moneypenny20

Prior to 1904. Man, you is olddddddddd!