Amy
Graff, a blogger for the San Francisco Gate, recently had an
uncomfortable moment with her daughter in a Castro Williams Sonoma.
After her four-year-old asked what sex was, Graff could only equate it
to plugging in a toaster. Even if naming her daughter Paris might have
been a step in the wrong sexual direction, at least she handled it
better than our mom when she asked us if we even knew what sex was.
"Mmhmm. It's when a boy puts his penis in a girl's vagina."
"No," said Mom. "It's not."
Imagine how screwed up we were about sex for the next few years.
Instead of doing what our mom did to us (up until the end of sixth
grade, we were certain a blow job was something one did to a car),
Graff at least tried to fix her wrong and consulted Dr. Shashank Joshi,
director of training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for some
advice on how to handle the situation.
While Joshi's words of wisdom sound quite a bit like the "If you
encounter a bear" training speech we got at summer camp ("Keep a
measured and relaxed tone and receptive stance") it's pretty sound
advice.
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