Oral sex.

Mr Barmey. Collect our 7 year gd from school and was walking home with some mums when my gd asked in a very loud voice, so just how are babies made and born. Every adult waited for the answer, which was ask you Nan she will know

I hope that anyone who engages in oral sex is aware that HPV can be caught (and turn nasty) without appropriate protection.

I worry about young girls who don’t even think that they need protection because they aren’t ‘having sex’ so it doesn’t count.

Lovely of your husband to do that on such a sad day, Monica.

I think the approach you took with your kids is best. Just answer things openly and honestly.

LauraNorder

I was always taught never to put anything in your mouth without boiling it first

Oh LauraNorder that really made me laugh! Thank you

I just answered DC's questions as they asked.

I do remember a tragic occasion when DC were about 6 and 8 when a boy DS used to play with at school was killed in a road accident. It was Library day, so that is where we went after school and DC picked out the MacDonald Book of the body.

When we got home, I didn't even get time to take my coat off before DS, in particular was asking me to read the book with him. so i just sat on the floor, a child both sides and we covered everything, reprised the basic facts that both knew, covered menstruation and periods and then discussed death, what it meant, what might happen.

Then DS got up and put the tv on, which I recognised as him having learned as much as he wanted and he would now go away and think about it and come back with questions a couple of weeks later.

I remember this event so clearly because DH came home from work, just as we were finishing. I explained what had happened and that supper would be late and he simply went straight out again and bought fish and chips.

mokryna if you click on the blue book title in my post it’s a link and will take you to a page where you can read the whole book. The man has a striped top and the woman has a striped dress.

Because it was always available my children just looked at it as they did any other book. I had other books about the human body etc. so it didn’t seem out of place or a cause for any particular attention.

grannyactivist Did the How A Baby Is Made have on the cover a couple with the man wearing striped trousers. I believe it was the book I bought for mine. My friend’s older daughter, nine years old, reading it without my knowledge, it was on my daughter’s book shelf came to me and said it wasn’t true cause it wasn’t what she had been told.

LauraNorder

I was always taught never to put anything in your mouth without boiling it first

What about ice cream?

LauraNorder they should teach this in sex Ed

I heard my mother reminiscing that she was 27 and married with 4 children when she learned that lesbians and gays existed. At the time she flatly refused to believe what she was hearing because she couldn’t understand the mechanics of how intercourse could work between two people of the same sex. She said that she actually felt nauseous when oral sex was explained to her.

When my eldest daughter was still a toddler I bought her a book called How A Baby Is Made and simply added it to her book box. All of my children eventually inherited access to it and when my eldest grandson was born I gave it to my daughter so that she could pop it into her own child’s bookcase. My son in-law was horrified and has hidden it! ??

I was always taught never to put anything in your mouth without boiling it first

Not nice.

Hellogirl even more sheltered than me!
I'll have to google MILF - my OH doesn't know.

My son enlightened me as to what MILF meant when I heard it mentioned on TV last night. Apparently there is also GILF.

I was given one of the little booklets when I was 11. It had a lot about male cells and female cells joining together and making a baby but no actual detail about how the cells met in the first place! I didn't bother to ask my mother about it as it was obviously scientific and she wouldn't know either!

Eventually one of my friends got hold of a book about sex which was more helpful although it didn't suggest that it was something to enjoy (and certainly no oral)

After thinking about it since last night, the penny has dropped and I`ve realised what BJ stands for! I was at school in the 50s and we had no sex education at all, and certainly never heard of oral sex back then.

Bluebellwould

Jane judge, my family-in-law called that slate rolls. No idea why.

Ohh I will google and I hope it isn't rude

Jane judge, my family-in-law called that slate rolls. No idea why.

Good heavens grandtanteJE65 I didn’t know it had ever been illegal! I’m shocked to realise I may have broken the law as a newly wed

Now you're talking JaneJudge....mmmm

JaneJudge I could get my tongue round that.

this has nothing to do with oral sex but if you have roll of puff pastry, spread a layer of marmite over it, sprinke with grated cheese, roll again, put in freezer for pastry to go hard again and then take out slice into slim circles, put on a baking sheet brush with egg and bake for 10-15 mins ish
lush

I wonder if they do this in the whitehouse

Bluebellwould reminds me of some alternate words to an advert from some time ago for club biscuits!

We’ve been giggling over marmite on this thread. Marmite mining came up in an article I was reading today. It’s an euphemism for something else sexually between two men. It’s put me off the taste of marmite completely.

When she was about 16 my DD told me I was a totally useless mother when it came to discussing sexual matters with her.

The reason I was useless, was not that I had any inhibitions about talking to her and answering her questions on all matters sexual. It was my willingness to answer questions that was the problem.

When she and her friends sat around in the college refectory telling each other all the stupid things that their parents said to them on the subject of sex and their embarrassmen when they did so, she was unable to contribute to the conversation because, as she said, she couldn't remember a time when she didn't know the basics and if she wanted to know anything she just asked me and I told her.