Until
the sixth grade, we thought a blow job was something one did to a car,
like a lube job. And when we were eight or so and said something about
sex, and Mom asked, "Do you even know what sex is?" and we responded
with, "Yes, when a boy puts his penis in a girl's vagina," she told us
we were wrong. So we were pretty confused about sex for a good deal of
our youth. No one ever talked to us about masturbation, or sex beyond
"use a condom" and/or "don't do it until you're in love and/or
married." Even with all that confusion, or maybe because of it, we were
the last in our circle of high school friends to lose our virginity.
But if our local science museum had an exhibit on sex, romance,
self-love and puberty, we would have been spared some awkwardness and
confusion in our early sexual activity—and our parents could have still
avoided the topic.
At least the French are getting it right.
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