This comment is from Black And Blue Man on the Open Thread Discussion post “How Did You Learn About The Birds and The Bees?”
Up until the big day when I finally learned about the birds and bees, I only knew that babies came from “Mum’s tummy” and that for some reason your father was your Dad, and that was it.
The big day came in 1982 when I was 10 or 11, when one morning during a school holiday my mother handed me a copy of ‘Where Did I Come From?’, asked me to read it and, if I had any questions afterwards, don’t hesitate to ask her for answers.
I read ‘Where Did I Come From?’ and was somewhat stunned…and life, of course, would never be the same again.
The only questions I remember asking my mother afterwards was if my best friend had already read the book (he had) and what was rape, because it was a term I often read and saw in the news.