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from a friend, or from an official source like school, or from walking in on something?

I think I was eight. A friend self-importantly told me about her discovery that there was this adult thing called 'sex' that involved hugging while naked, and I went home and looked up 'sex' in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Because I was a little rebel like that.

I have no idea. I know that in 5th grade when we had sex-ed/health it wasn't completely news to me, but other than that I really don't have a memory of one big moment of awareness.

I can't recall. I was raised in a cult with an obsessive fixation on sex and sexuality so I was probably always aware of the concept from an early, early age.

I do remember that from a combination of seeing a sex scene in a movie, experiencing arousal in my clitoris, and reading about sperm swimming towards the egg for a long time I didn't realize there was penetration and just thought the penis was thrust between the labia and rubbed over the clit (the hymen eroding from the friction) and then the sperm just swam towards the vaginal opening until one day out of nowhere (when I was eight maybe) I was thinking "Could someone fit their penis inside someone's vag... oh, hey that's probably how they do it."

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When I was very little, I asked my mother where babies came from a couple of times. All I remember is her saying "It's called sex..." and then I guess my eyes glazed over and I stopped listening because it all just went right over my head.

By the time we had Sex Ed in 6th grade, when I was 11/12, the basic mechanics were not news, although I'm not 100% sure where I picked these things up. Maybe I remembered more of my mother's explanations that I thought, or maybe some of it was from friends. I know I also used to prowl through my family's book shelves on a regular basis, and my parents had biology textbooks from college that had some diagrams and explanations of human anatomy, including genitalia and reproduction. My mother also had this book that dealt with female anatomy and reproduction and included a lot of frank descriptions of how sex works, including various positions and things. In retrospect, I think it was a bit quaint and naive - I assumed it was written to be something one would give to a woman upon her marriage so she would know what was going on, but for all I know that's not true at all. Anyway, I do remember reading large parts of that book, but I don't know if that was before or after sex ed.

Jeez. I know some times/places were like that, but I hate to think of growing up ignorant of sex and then given a book about it.

Yeah, although I remember feeling there was something kind of subversive about this, like "We wrote this because we think it's terrible women aren't being given this information but we can't come out and say they should get this information earlier in live because society will vilify us!" I have to give the book some props. It was pretty thorough about anatomy and bodily functions, it didn't push any agendas like "Sex is only for reproduction!" and stated that not everybody experiences sex in the same ways. It was just very vanilla and hetero-centric, didn't delve into the psychology of sex, and, IIRC, was written by a man who occasionally couldn't hide the fact that he was explaining things he had no first-hand experience with on account of not being a woman.

I don't remember exactly when I found out about the specifics of sex but I would assume I was quite young, mostly because I grew up in households where they didn't restrict what I saw on television or any other forms of entertainment.

I also walked in on my mother when I was like 7 and I knew what she was doing with the random man, probably not to the same degree as I know now, but I knew what they did was having sex.

I was eight and found a romance novel. I don't remember which it was, but the first page was all "he sat behind his desk, and he was hard" and bam, twenty pages of that and there you go.

I think I found out about masturbation before that, although the relation to sex was missing. It was just what the body decided felt good.

I grew up on a farm and my parents never gave me a talk or anything, so I guess a lot of it was osmosis. And then I would read a book about where baby birds came from and thought "Huh. That makes sense." It didn't hit me until I was about seven that people did stuff like that.

I read biology textbooks at a young age, so I probably learned about it pretty early, but I don't remember the exact moment or anything. It's one of those things that I just accepted as part of the world, I think. Tide goes in, tide goes out, the wheels on the bus go round and round, animals boink, whatever.

But I remember clarifying a lot of stuff via dictionaries. :D

I have no idea. There was never one big moment. But sex and death and birth, all of that has always been around me since I partially grew up on a farm along with hunting and extended family having various farm animals.

Well, I know my mom explained sex to some degree to me... when I was 5. (I ran into the living room and explained it to my sister and her boyfriend. Whoops.) I think my main initial source of the idea of sex as anything more than a scientific phenomenon ala the sky being blue was when I was 9... and wandered onto 4chan (My parents tried to police my internet viewing. I, however, had good reflexes.)(I know I had also discovered masterbation prior to that, I just never linked it to sex in any way.). Inspite of all this, I am amusingly prudish.

When I was about six my parents gave me a really awesome book about it, with a woman and a man lying in bed together etc. The pictures were funny as hell and it had a ton of appropriate punchlines for my age group. Still took me about 6 more years to find out what that condom thing was supposed to look like though.

like 4, from my parents

I have no idea why they decided it was time, but I wonder if there was some incident that brought it on. I remember talking to my friend in preschool about it shortly afterwards, and her parents had told her too. I didn't think it was strange then, but I later realized that four was a pretty early age. So. Idk.

We then questioned whether it was possible for two men to have sex, which gave us a good laugh, and then the same for two ladies, which I thought about quietly by myself for some time.

Aw, that's really cute.

tbh i have no idea. i don't remember my parents telling me, but it could have happened, and i don't remember any other way i could have learned (other than non vaginal sex, which i got from fanfiction, same for how people masturbate)

When I was about 8 I asked my parents what it was. The dinner table got really quiet and everybody went back to eating without answering my question. The next day my dad left a couple of books about puberty on my bed. He didn't look at me for the rest of the week.

Poor man. He's so much of a prude it must've terrified him to hear his daughter asking about such a non-Catholic thing. He still gets embarrassed every time an unmarried celebrity has a baby, or when there's a sex scene on tv.

He's so much of a prude it must've terrified him to hear his daughter asking about such a non-Catholic thing. He still gets embarrassed every time an unmarried celebrity has a baby, or when there's a sex scene on tv.

My father is similar and now I'm wondering if his Catholic schooling is the reason. When I was a teenager, I assumed he was just trying to set a good example, albeit in amusingly awkward ways.* He still gets kind of weird about these things now, even though I'm in my 30s and haven't lived with my parents for a long time.

*Once, a friend of mine told me that Blossom was a good show, so I made a point of watching it the next time I was able to catch an episode. It happened to be an ep where Blossom's friend is talking about how she is planning to "do it" with her boyfriend. Cue my dad calling out from the other room, "This is a stupid show." Then there was the episode of ST:TNG where Q is giving Picard visions of his past as a young cadet. In once scene, he's waking up in bed with a female friend of his and Dad loudly comments "THIS MUST BE LATER WHEN THEY WERE MARRIED." It was kind of adorable.

That's hilarious. My dad has left the room during scenes that were too sexual or violent for him.

Actually, as a kid he was raised Atheist and only became Catholic after marrying my mother. And he's really liberal about everything else, which makes it funnier. But all I have to do is wear a miniskirt and his inner conservative comes out. I used to buy clothes just to see him get all flustered and annoyed.

David Attenborough documentaries about zebras or whatever fucking. I connected the dots, and thought humans must do that, doggy style too. Later, I was educated when I asked some boys in grade 6 what they meant by "rape" and I got laughed at for not knowing and it was described exactly to me. Being laughed at for being a "virgin" also and described exactly how I could become a not virgin. I hate boys.

I had this really neat kids' anatomy book growing up (the pictures were awesome, like the digestive tract covered several pages and had little people inside, doing the work). One of the pictures in the section on reproduction was a cross-section of PIV sex, to show how it works/how babies are made.

I don't remember how old I was when I first really looked at it instead of just flipping through for the pretty pictures, but it was before middle school.

I know my parents showed me a "Where did I come from?" book when my little sister was on the way, but I was four, so I'm not sure how much I absorbed.

I think I learned kind of gradually, but I didn't learn all the terms gradually. So I once asked my much older sister if she was "sleeping with" her boyfriend. I literally meant "are you sharing a bed?" but of course that's not how she took it.

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