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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