As a child from Generation X, which was considered a generation with reduced parental supervision, but also reduced interest in our growing up, relatively late or almost never me and my friends heard that story.
In elementary school, we had lessons in Biology, a subject that dealt with reproduction, first the plant and animal world, and then humans and those lessons were almost all we had of sex education.
Almost no one talked to our parents about sexual experiences, we were left to our own.
The little ignoramuses, who were researching, came into possession of erotic magazines of their parents from the closets in their houses, where we could see something about sex.
As we grew from the age of 11, 12 to 13, we slowly moved into reality. Girls our age were becoming young beauties, distant and unattainable to us boys.
Only individuals (more advanced) were ready and able to engage in something more serious than holding hands with them...
There was not so much external influence on our behavior, there was no internet (where you could see anything) and challenges (someone persuading us to do some stupid things).
I read one of the threads @galenkp posted
At what age do you think sex education should begin for young people and why?
It will be clear to me that today is not like it was 40 or 50 years ago.
Today, everything is available now and immediately.
Today, you can find everything about sex on the Internet, and on various networks you can meet anyone and anyone can challenge you to anything.
The fact that such a topic was raised, it is clear that today's parents have more interests than our parents in the eighties of the twentieth century.
Today, parents, as well as school institutions, are more willing to teach their children about sexual relations.
There is sex education in schools and parents are more willing to talk about it with their children.
It's just a question of what moment it is, just as it's a question of the topic.
Children should hear the story about the bee and the flower even before starting elementary school, because it is then that they become aware of the difference between boys and girls.
At that moment when they start having their first crushes or when they start playing doctor and patient 🙂.
They should be educated about their reproductive organs from a young age and receive an adequate upbringing, to know what they can and cannot do, to know what to do when the time comes...
As the other day a friend told her thirteen-year-old daughter, who already has a boyfriend, that there is a time for everything and that she will not be late for anything in life related to sex...
It is important to talk with your children, teenagers, throughout their childhood, before they turn 10, what they can and should do when they do.
Boys should be educated to respect girls, and girls not to tease boys.
In this way, with education and timely intervention, perhaps children can be saved from premature sexual relations.
Talk to children on time, not like one of my friends, at the age of 13, heard the beginning of the story from the title from his father...
His father asked him: "Do you know the story about the bee and the flower?", and my friend asked: "Dad, I know 🙂. Tell me, which condom is the best for contraception".
Too late for story, I'd say 🙂
Very much agree, children should know about their sexuality, it is a necessary knowledge. For my parents and those of other generations before mine, these were taboo subjects and the children did not have adequate preparation when the time came, this brought many inconveniences. So I think the best thing to do is to educate our children about these issues.
Failure in education and lack of sexual education and information about protection can cost these young people a lot...
oh do they call it the bee and the flower where you're from. I assume it's the same as the birds and the bees.
Ya you're right there is a lot of online sources out there. I think this was a point I forgot to mention in my own post.
Yes, here we make a metaphor with a bee pollinating a flower 🙂
When I was young, only on magazines (like Playboy) or on some VHS tape brought from abroad, you could see sex scenes and nudity. Today, nudity is ubiquitous, even on national TV channels...
Oh I see so that's what your country calls it. The story is the same when I was in states though the bee pollinating flower but the birds lay the egg. The bee is the guy part where they spread their seed and the bird is for the female part o.o that's why we call it the birds and the bees. Not sure if im wrong tho
oh ya it's everywhere now lol and we have something called onlyfans now which i still frown upon. I hope we can stop that trend.
Oh wow you are probably a bit older than me no offense hehe. I barely lived thru that VHS phase; I think it was almost ending when I was young. I was more of the dvd age but we know hwat happened to that o.o it's all gone now. everything streamed online and downloaded online
Thanks 🙂
In my country is the story of the seed and the earth, small children are still told that when they ask but after they are seven years old they know more than adults and no longer eat the story hehehehehehe.
With mobile phones, tablets and the Internet, where everything is at their fingertips at a moment's notice, even by chance, even though they can't read, of course they know more than their parents at that age.
Since we can't deny them a phone (apart from blocking applications and limiting websites), give them enough information and education, what they can and can't do, before they start kindergarten. what is good and what is not.