At what age did you first learn about sex?

[Eternal Night 61]

I learned about it the way I learned a lot of things when I was ten, the internet. I heard some kids mention the word sex on the school bus and then I went home and googled it. That was also the same day I learned what porn was, I'll never forget the look on my parents faces were the best when they saw the computer screen.

[Dewdlz 938]

Probably 5 or 6. Actually caught the action but had no idea what was going on. Messed up childhood.

[LostButterflyUtau 780]

I had to have been twelve or thirteen. (I remember writing smut at 13/14) I never got "the talk." Instead, I started taking sex ed in the fifth grade. Except, in fifth grade it was more of a "puberty happens" thing, but once I got to middle school they really started talking about it. Plus, my parents were always really honest about it. My dad is all "I don't care if you have sex. Sex is fun. Just use protection." My mum tends to be a bit more reserved though.

[Golden Triangle 75]

I was in my first year of High School.

[vivishy 1,032]

I don't remember exactly at what age but it was around 15 or 16 from both parents because I have a lot of male friends and they thought we were......up to something.

[Empty Room 512]

I'd say I was about 13. It was during a lesson in school. Whenever the teacher said names often associated with sex, everyone in the class laughed. 

[Miles 2,512]

I'd say it was around 5th grade, maybe 6th (so, 11 or 12 years old) when I actually learned about what sex was.  Mostly from other kids.  Before then I knew there were some anatomical differences, but, didn't quite know the specifics.  Of course, it's probably best to learn it around those ages, since that's about where most start going through puberty.  

Oh dear... I remember those days.  My voice cracked so much.  It'd be normal, crack really high, then get low.   

Of course, sexual attraction comes with puberty.  I couldn't help but notice... certain things... lol.    

Anywho, my parents kept a lot of "adult themed topics" away from me.  I never actually got "the talk."  Nor other things.  After talking to my friends and realizing that there was even a thing called "the talk," (which was after I'd had 7th/8th grade health class), I actually got a slight irked at my own parents.  I know many kids think "ew, I don't want to hear about that from my parents," but I actually would rather have preferred at least some preliminary info, if not more, from my parents, before I took health class and/or before I learned it from other kids.  So, I remember when I was like, 14-ish... I nonchalantly asked my mom why she'd never given me the talk.  She didn't have a good answer.  She didn't have an answer.  So, I said, "well it's too late now anyway since I've had health."  Yeah, it's probably not a nice thing to play the guilt-trip game like that with my mom, but she knew and understood that I was right.  

On a related note, (a humorous one)...

In 7th grade I had shop-class/tech in the mornings.  I remember one day, I said out loud, "Man, I love the smell of fresh wood in the morning."  And boy did I get looked at funny   I didn't realize why, until someone made a comment.  I was like, "oh gosh, I seriously just meant the wood from shop-class, not that."  Lmao.  Oops.  

(Side note... I hated the teacher I had in that class.  He was mean.  Slightly a bully.  He called me "squirrel-bait."  A lot.     I don't know why he made fun of me like that...  I wasn't badly behaved at all, just a little hyper [i have ADHD]...  I told him to stop but he kept calling me it.  Luckily he got fired for other reasons, but unfortunately it wasn't til years later.)

~ Miles

[Trickilee 139]

My parents had a sex ed book laying around when I grew up, so I understood what the pictures meant before I was able to read and write. Not sure when that was.

[simba86 1,541]

probably when i was like 11. my mom owned a book business so i had tons of those kind of books to read

[Steve Piranha 29,428]

Around 12 or so, I wasn't exactly the most aware guy around. Heck, I had wet dreams and I got scared because I thought I peed in my bed 

[ciphersplash 57]

Erm, I got told about the birds and the bees when i was 14.

 

I just thought that the birds helped the bees make honey

 

 

 

 

Until i had a argument infront of a whole science class about how bees make honey, when the birds were left out. I argued that they must do something to help.

 

 

The odd looks i got that day

 

 

 

Priceless 

[Gearbox10mm 794]

Growing up on a ranch, the birds and the bees have always just been a fact of life. I've known about it as far back as I can remember.

 

Some of the ages listed are very surprising to me. I can't imagine being 10 or 12 and not knowing that a male and a female together make babies.   

[~Sugar Sprinkles~ 638]

I was about 10ish and we started to begin sex ed. Except they separated the girls and boys. Then the next year, we were all put together and learned it all. I don't know why they did that, like why couldn't we just learn it the first time, but whatever, They pretty much told us about puberty and sex. The end.

[Throwaway19573639385 764]

8-10, got a little bit too curious on the internet.

[Lisa 5,553]

10. Can't exactly remember how I learnt about it. I think one of my friends told me about it or said a joke about it.

[Buzz 1,769]

My parents told me when i was 9 as they didn't trust the school to do a good job with the explanation (they belived the school would give us the 'birds and the bees' talk and my parents didn't like that!)

[Pucksterv 4,508]

I knew what it was when I was around 6 years old...

When I was 10 I started asking questions and looking stuff up...that was a mistake...

Edited May 7, 2015 by Pucksterv

[iceestarz 5,764]

Hmm. Well when I was like 10 I learned about periods and such, though I vaguely knew about them just not all the details. When I was 11 that was when I first had sex Ed so I guess 11 lol.

 

It would've been 10, but in my elementary they split up the boys and girls. A couple girl teachers talked to the girls about periods and stuff and I'm guessing the guys got a lecture about erections.

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Around age 10-11 when my mom gave me a book called, "Where did I come from." It had naked people everywhere in the book and taught me about the birds and the bees.

[Dr. Frasier Crane 319]

I remember learning from a friend when I was around 7 or 8. 

My first actual sex ed lesson however I had when I was, and still am, 17. So the Internet pretty much filled in the gaps for me.

[ZaccMDL 9]

7 man 7 but was supposed to do it at 11

[pleasebanmyaccount 49]

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Edited November 18, 2017 by pleasebanmyaccount
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[Art Thief 215]

9 or 10, and then i slowly discovered all of my fetishes. 

Edited May 9, 2015 by Art Thief

[The Peculiar Derp 193]

I was about 8. Some older kids were talking about it, and I guess I got the concept. I never had "the talk" I guess my mother just wanted me to figure it out on my own, or let the school teach me.

Edited May 10, 2015 by HerpDerp88

[SynBassilicious Pony 322]

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Edited January 30, 2023 by SynBassilicious Pony