I know this sounds like another "blue" thread, but I am actually pretty much serious (though light heartedness is welcome.)
My new job means I talk to kids under twelve about sex a lot, and I am amazed at the different levels of knowledge kids have/don't have.
Now as for me, I knew nothing about my fixings down there (other than them what is to do with waste removal) until my mother sat me down for The Talk when she thought I might be thinking of hitting puberty.....and she sure as hell didn't mention no clitoris, neither!
I have a VAGINA? Down THERE???!!!!
Now, willies I knew about (as one does) cos there they were, on all my male friends...(for a household which didn't DO sex....believe me....my mum was very relaxed about nudity, so me and the neighbourhood kidlets spent a good part of summer in the nude playing in the sprinklers) but my own bits and bobs were a mystery.
I only found out about the clitoris from a friend in the kitchen of a place we were working at.........just in time, may I say, for I Lost It (read threw it away) a few days later.
And the names kids use!!!
My UNfavourite is "rudey bits".......honestly, parents, you can do better than this!
Minnie always raises in me an unholy desire to say "Ha ha"?
I restrain myself, you will be happy to know.
And kids who think sex is a swear word....while other tots (sadly) happily ask people to perform advanced sexual techniques upon them, or offer the same.
It's a wild world out there........
Soon I will tell you how my mother and I managed to have a seemingly perfectly sensible argument about unwed pregnancies (with both of us on the appropriate sides) when I was utterly, utterly ignorant of how they occurred......