"My mother did when I was maybe eight. The closest she came to graphic language was, "the place where she goes to the bathroom." I pictured a toilet bowl. Eventually figured out sex on my own. Thanks for nothing, mom."
Give me one reason why parents have to be graphic? How is it that in the old days, when most of us in the slightly older generation and way before that too, people managed to figure out "sex" when they needed to? And in our "in the dark" generations, there was way less venereal disease, broken marriages, pornography, and sexual deviancy. I'm glad I was raised when we were "kept in the dark", and just whispered about sex when we were teenagers, and started getting an inkling that it existed, along with awakening physical interest brought on by hormones. We women lasted a lot longer as "virgins" back in those days, and because there was less sexual playing around, way less, there was less disease, less unwanted pregnancies, and lest predatory sexual behavior.
But somehow, when the time came, we all figured sex out, didn't we, as had all earlier generations in the U.S. And our parents didn't have to give us graphic descriptions of everything you always wanted to know about sex and more. What has that led to in the last 35 years, pray tell? A better society because of our children losing their innocence so young? No, it's a much worse society, and our country is a bad way because of it. Give youth back their ignorance. They'll grow up fast enough without all the sexual indoctrination they are now receiving in the schools, and the constant media presence of sexuality that now permeates their world. I'm glad I was brought up fairly ignorant. Ignorance was bliss, as I had nothing to act upon because I didn't know. I, like most of my generation, "wised up" at about age 18, when most of my generation went off to college, or got a job, or got married and then found out everything one would need to know about sex, by osmosis. It was better that way, wasn't it really?
Was it better growing up naive, the street vibes about sex as being something 'dirty'? No, it crippled the ability to form relationships.. You couldn't recognize feeling anything sexual because, if you really liked the girl, it could only end up treating her like your sister because you didn't know any better. The girl, meanwhile, got bored and left. I don't blame her.