Will you teach your kids about sex?

[ganchroi]

Well when I hit puberty I was afraid to tell my parents because I knew so little about what was going on - when I got my first period I thought that I'd cut my behind and it was bleeding sweatdrop
But when I did pluck up the courage to tell my mother she told me everything I needed to know - now my parents and I find it easy to talk openly about sex, even joke about it rofl
If I were to have kids (which I most likely will), I'd tell them the basics beforehand so as to avoid the embarrasment that I had to endure. And I would support them if they wished to start having sex too, but I'd make sure that they were ready and had protection - I'd rather know what my children are doing rather than find out the hard way because the enemy you know is better than the enemy you don't xd  

[Voila! Viola]

If the kid directly asked me, I would give an answer (although how in-depth an answer would depend on the child's age), but otherwise I would never have "the talk". I never got the talk and I'm very happy about that. God, I can't imagine how awkward that would be.  

[God-Raped-Me]

That's why people are so uptight about sex though, because "just thinking about talking to mommy and daddy about it is embarrassing". I'm most certainly going to be teaching my children about it! I'm going to make sure they're not embarrassed about it either.

I used to be embarrassed about it and it took me YEARS to finally just TALK about sex with other people. I still can't touch myself. It's so bad I can't use tampons.

Parents NEED to talk to their kids about sex and anything sexual!  

[Yvaine]

We're not shy about nudity in our household, so we've already covered the parts and the fact that one week out of every month Mommy bleeds and has a giant band-aid in her underwear (they keep calling it that, even though I keep explaining I'm not hurt). They've probably got another year or two before the mechanics start being referenced. I don't ever really plan on having a serious, formal Talk - that makes the subject intimidating and ramps up the embarassment factor by ten million jigawatts. I think it helps to treat the whole subject casually as reproduction, so they know it's something all living creatures do. Or maybe that's just me with a semi-farmer's mentality. If you've watched chickens and sheep rutting...well, the people version doesn't seem so weird. And if it's not made into a huge deal, they'll feel free to ask questions as they come up, not like they have to make an appointment or whisper or whatever.

My best friend explained the basics to her oldest daughter (she's 7), and her whole response was to make a disgusted face and say, "You have GOT to be kidding me!" ...I lol'ed when she told me.

To the best of my knowledge, I don't think I ever got an official Talk. We just had this kid book called "How Babies Are Made", with various different animals and also people (very blobby generic ones made of pieces of tan construction paper with no faces - makes it less eerie). Once I was old enough to read and browse the bookshelves at home, I eventually pulled that one out and read for myself. So much less creepy and awkward. Aaaand yeah, there was the livestock. No shame, those critters.  

[Da_Nuke]

In my experience, kids know quite a bit about sex today. I've seen 8-year-olds who know the basic idea. And I'm personally quite cool about talking about sex with a little kid, as in, they ask me "what's an orgasm?" and just I tell them what it is and what it's like.

So yeah, I guess the Internets will make my job quite easy. And as I learned from my sexuality class, treating it in a casual way will make it much easier and much more comfortable for both of us.  

[Yeonie]

Okay. So this might sound a little crude and freaky, coming from a girl,
but I actually learned 'sex' from watching porn.
It's not something I'm ashamed of, I just learned it that way.
My parents never wanted to have that talk with me anyway (as they have directly told me so), because they just expected me to learn it at school, and not engage in pre-marital sex. (LOL. So much for that.)

These days I just share porn sites with my boyfriend.
Oh yeah. Life is good.

But when I have kids, I'll tell them when I think they're of the appropriate age.
Better that then them finding out the wrong or hard way...
I'll use euphemisms and metaphors..
See how much the kids understand, and go from there.