Then again, I didn’t have the talk with my parents until I was twenty-one, was in the military, had sailed for a year, and had gotten all of the education I could possibly have ever learned from the warped minds of young twenty year old men who were also sailors. My parents chose to rely on public education and word of mouth to teach me, resulting in a lot of confusion and misinformation, though I thankfully never pursued learning on my own with what knowledge I had garnered! The talk when my father finally had it? “Sex is bad; don’t do it.”

Interesting that such a disparity occurs and it might be attributed to (or aligned with?) political or religious stance.