How old were you when you learned the basic facts of life? Who told you? I was about 12 or 13 and my buddies told me. Neither of my parents told me anything. Of course as I grew up and got a little experience . i started reading anything I could get my hands on about sex and would tryout what I learned when the opportunity presented itself.

My buddies hadnt a clue at 13.  I am thinking I was 15 and my mother gave me a medical type book to read.  Unfortunatly it didnt tell you how to do it right,  just what was done.  Took me years to figure out how to do it right.  I am actually still studying.

.... and poured over it. I remember the message about masturbation being really positive (despite the conservative nature of the era). I took that message as a green light to play with myself –––– and I did –––– a lot. I don't remember how old I was because I've always been promiscuous (my first "show me yours" experience was when I was 5 or 6. There were many more show me games until I started letting boys finger me in the 6th grade. I never had "the talk" with my mom. The only thing that resembled "the talk" was when she came to me when I was around 16 to tell me she was putting me on birth control pills. Guess she saw trouble coming otherwise. ; )

Never had the conversation with either of my parents. Read everything I could get my hands on that had sex in the title. Red Book magazine in offices or wherever they were in waiting rooms. (Red Book had those kinds of articles before Cosmo) Medical dictionaries. About 5th or 6th grade I thought intercourse was anal. I had heard "piece of ass" didn't really know what it meant but ass was anal to me so even though I knew ladies didn't have a penis, I didn't know they had a vagina. Sometime in Jr. High I heard guys talk. Then read an Ann Landers book for teen-agers. (My Mom didn't know I had that book, I had borrowed it) It didn't really explain about intercourse but it at least helped in "figuring things out". Then one of my buddies told me what actually happened though how he knew I have no idea. He was one of those guys that knew everything even when you knew he didn't. Huh! This time he was right. Talked to my girlfriend about it some.
Then when I was a sophomore ( which was the first year of high school for me. Jr. high went to 9th grade.) in High School I had a guy (upper classmen bad ass) ask me about eating pussy. He was being an ass and I guess he thought he'd get a reaction from me when he said it. I just looked at him. First I'd heard of that. Then I read the porn paperback "novel" (?) Candy. LOL. It had a totally blank pink cover. How's that for low profile?! By this time High School "Family Living" class and other youth oriented educational classes had me pretty clear about what to do and how things worked. The importance of the clitoris? Didn't get that 'til college. I still read (past tense) everything I could get my hands on about sex. Still read (present tense) everything I can get my hands on about sex. Now I include reading about relationships.
...and yes, when it comes to sex and relationships I'm still working on that.

I was masturbating at 10 and can remember playing nurse and doctor at 8. That's the first time I saw a penis and even touched it. My early teen years were very frustrating since the boys were all talk and no action. They would pop as soon as you touched them. I can remember the teen boys talking about eating pussy and how nasty that must be. I found an older man when I was sixteen who ate my pussy every chance he could although he would never do any more than that. I was a virgin until a sixty second senior gave me the disappointment of my life ... sex.

PS: My first sexual book at 16 was the "Story of O"  

Kisses Haley

My dad attempted to teach me the facts of life when I was about 11 or 12.  Unfortunately, it was in the nature of a medical school lecture, and I couldn't follow the discussion.  My real eduction came one or two years later from a cousin, who was eight years older than me.  I had no trouble understanding him.  For my 15th birthday, he took me to get laid-- needless to say, he was always my favorite relative.  55 years later, I am still going strong, albeit with the help of those wonderful blue pills and some great ladies (one in particular) who make me feel young and alive.

I am still learning. And at sixty + I'm amazed how much I have learned as a hobbyist. I guess that I'm still a work in progress. LOL

called "Modern Man." The centerfold was a huge-chested Danish blonde named Annette Casir. I still remember her to this day. Gorgeous lady! And I learned bits and pieces about society's no-no's from my schoolmates.

worked.  I never did get "The Talk".  Just came to the realization during our normal discussions.  I think the full impact finally hit me when I was 11 and figured out masturbation.

Now, I'm one of the "old bulls".  If you don't udnerstand the reference, ask me.

I remember hearing my mom talk about Blow jobs and could not for the life of me figure out why a hair dryer was such interesting conversation. But it was not long after that that I kind of figured out they were grown up wrestling behind closed doors..

I think I was 14 before I really figured it out. but having a BF who was 5 years old. speed up my learning expereince....

when you were 14 you had a BF who was five years old?

yikes!!

It was a middle school  film day  they separated  the boys from the girls  and took us to see a film  on menstruation   I had no idea what was going to happen to my body and it freaked me out big time  the  very idea of giving birth  scared me to death and then to hear hair was going to grow in certain places was too much to handle .....I remember  a group of us running into the girls room to check under our arms for hair and sure enough one of us has a couple   so I new it was true .......from that day forward I decided never to have kids  it affected me profoundly.......

He was 19...

The girl next door wanted to do more than show me a film.

My mom told me what not to do... don't have sex. There were the classes they start teaching in the 5th grade, but that was more-so about menstruation & the class was divided, so we only got to hear the girl stuff. I actually had an argument with my friend, probably in the 5th grade, in where she told me how babies were really made. I told her she was a liar, & that you got pregnant by taking a pill(I think my mom told me this, lol). I was so mad at her for even suggesting that people did that.... yeeeeaaa.

I think around 14, I got a hold of one of my mom's books, where there were explicit sex scenes, & was still slightly confused... then one day got into my parents Hustler tapes, lol... learned a lot from watching those, but still didn't have sex for the first time until I was 16.

Hence why I have told my children the basics of everything already... the first time they told me you could get pregnant from kissing someone, I had to break it down to them. I don't think knowledge will make children any more promiscuous... I think it's the curiosity that has kids trying stuff so young.

Sitting in the gymnasium on folding metal chairs; slack-jawed watching an "overhead" presentation by some PTA approved doctor.

 The girls were excused from morning class for a film presentation and lecture by their very "butch" gym teacher.  

  Somehow life has never been the same since.