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Women Are Sharing The Most Ridiculous Things They’ve Heard Men Say About Their Bodies (30 Tweets)
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High school biology doesn't teach guys how to understand women. But it at least gives them an idea of how their bodies work. Pass that and you won't infuriate your girlfriend by telling her to "keep it in" when she asks you to buy her some tampons. Recently, Twitter user @brownandbella asked women to share the most ridiculous things they've heard men say about "sex, reproductive health, menstruation, etc" and BOY did they deliver! As of this article, the thread already has nearly 20K upvotes and over 3.5K comments, many of which will make you wonder if men are really that stupid or are they just being dicks. Maybe the first, maybe the latter, maybe a bit of both.
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Almost a quarter of men have admitted that they have "no idea" what a pelvic floor is or what it is supposed to do. About 1 in 20 believe it's just another name for your pelvis and some even think it's a dance move. A new study has confirmed that men really are clueless when it comes to their female partner's body.
The study, released by pelvic floor experts INNOVO, found that nearly 4 in 10 men don't feel comfortable talking to women about it, too. 4 in 10 men also admit they have no understanding about the health issues their wife or girlfriend faces and are stumped when it comes to the length of their period.
Periods can be a horror show for sure. Cramps, messy underwear, acne, bloating, not to mention the mood swings.
The same magical 4 in 10 men don't feel comfortable talking to women about intimate health issues and as a result, more than a third try to avoid all conversations with their partner about subjects such as periods, intimate screening tests, and even sex.
Damn monthly subscriptions. Never can stop them. I hear you can pause them for 9 months, but it is SO not worth it.
"Intimate health issues can be a difficult subject for many to discuss," Jane Wake, women's health and fitness expert, said. "'It may be funny to think men have no idea what a pelvic floor is or does, but it's a subject which needs to be taken seriously – especially as men also have a pelvic floor and can suffer the same problems as women."
Either he has a very small penis or thinks tampons are far bigger than they are. Either way.... wow.
Jane added that both men and women find it embarrassing to discuss their private health concerns with someone of the opposite sex, even if it is their own partner, but that being as open as possible with each other is the best way to gradually break down the taboo.
Can you imagine how old her mother was when they got married.
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His parents shouldn't have been able to either - after all they clearly didn't tell him the facts of life adequately. This is why good sex education is essential in schools, because parents might not teach their children, or teach them correctly.
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That's wrong on so many levels, does he think you have to have sex with a child before she turns into a woman?
Probably. Should not be allowed near children, including his own.
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Had a gf with all kinds of period problems. Heavy bleeding, varying in length wildly and unusually painful. Dad wouldn’t let her go on the pill during high school for medical reasons afraid she’d just banging every guy I guess. “Old fashioned”
Her dad was probably raised in an ignorant ultra religious society.
probably. Those people are so prudish they don't talk about sex because they're afraid it will make their kids want to have sex. Not.
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So penises are what make women? Such a phallocentric way of thinking.
I went out with a guy who couldn't believe I was a virgin because I have large breasts. He thought they got that way from LOTS of sex.
The Iowa legislature is now reviewing a bill to change the age of "consent" to when girls have breasts and boys have pubic hair. I suspect they're more interested in 12-y/o females having sex with 50-y/o males, than whatever pubescent males get up to.
... you should ask your partner questions about what they know before you have children with them. This is abuse.
This is disgusting. The attitude is disturbing. How old are these people?
I went out with a high school classmate and when I told him I was a virgin and wanted to wait he was surprised because I have large breasts.He thought they got that way from having LOTS of sex!
Some of the boys at my HS in the mid-70s thought sex would make girls breast grow bigger, so every big breasted young lady was hit on.
Like, are we talking recently? Like someone who is around my age(50) ?
This man has had sex with a woman. And produced offspring. And doesn't know what puberty is.
Actually...though he’s wrong in this case with his daughter, the “theory” may not be altogether bunk. My hips widened on two occasions (over a 2 - 3 wk period), LITERALLY overnight, when I did. I was 20. I think I gained about 2” in circumference. I looked at myself in the mirror, and it was weird to see my body transform so dramatically. My hips widening also made my waist thicker, so the waistbands of some of my bottoms became a bit tight.
When I was about 14, over 20 years ago, I was reading the problem page in a teen magazine. A girl had written a letter, in a total panic, because her periods weren't blue. She thought she had some terrible disease.
This sounds like he was willfully neglecting his duties as a doctor. Like he was just too lazy to try and find out what was wrong and that's scary as hell.
As a young girl who hadn't had " the talk" yet, we knew my girlfriend would give us the facts. Her parents were Doctors! Well, she said.." First you lay this egg... suggesting it was size of an ostrich egg( made sense), and then you bleed for about a week. You also grow hair in weird places. It's called PUBLIC HAIR! At that point we all swore we would just get to a Nunnery!! Somehow, reality reached us by high school.
Why on earth should father express his opinions about daughters sexual life?
I think you dodged a bullet with that one. Just because you are in college, does not mean you are educated.
Ummm... does he only know 50 foot tall women? How big/heavy does he think the egg is?
So to sum up: You girls/women don't only bleed from your vagina's, but also have to suffer from uneducated pains in the ass.
Yep and the dozens of other symptoms that go with the bleeding. If it was just blood it honestly wouldn’t be so awful. Cramps, headaches, hormones etc are even worse.
I used to feel like I was coming down with the 'flu on the first day or two. Did I mention how wonderful menopause was?
just about. but the mansplaining is the worst. Thank goodness some men have empathy and curiosity, and their only sin is ignorance, not out-and-out malignant intent.
yeeep
These are the reasons that Sex Ed and health should ALWAYS be taught in school. Lots of parents don't education their children; my mother never did.
My mom was pretty good, but also preached the "no sex before marriage" due to religious views. My son will be 11 soon and we have really good, open discussions about the good, the bad and the ugly of both male and female puberty and reproductive health. Some people might think he's too young to know about STDs, intercourse, and periods, but I say he's young enough that he won't hear it from someone else first so I can teach him the facts before he hears the myths.
I think you are doing exactly the right thing. Not that you need my approval - but you have it anyway.
Here in Italy we have the first sex ed lesson in school at 10 y.o. so it's not too soon.
I don’t know who is down voting you but I don’t think 11 is too soon. Girls start periods around 11, I was 12, and I knew nothing! I am lucky nothing bad happened to me. But I would have had healthier relationships mentally and physically if it wasn’t so taboo to know about the difference between our bodies.
Dippin Dot, your mom did you a solid, that's for sure! My mother got me a kit from one of the feminine hygiene companies with a booklet that explained a lot of things. She gave me the kit when I had a "period" at age 10.5. It wasn't a real period, but she was prepared. My mother was such a prude about sex and taught me that sex was dirty and was not a subject that polite women talked about. My stepmother was quite open about the birds and the bees, so I got a mixed education at home. On the subject of the right age to start teaching comprehensive and frank sex education is dropping into the single digits. Girls are starting their monthly cycles much earlier. It's not as uncommon as it used to be for girls to have their first period at age 9. A friend who worked at a middle school office had a student who was pregnant for the *3rd* time at age 11. She told my friend that she was keeping this one. This was 20 years ago.
My mom was similar to yours. She actually gave me age-appropriate books that were from age 6-9, explaining about puberty, periods and where babies comes from and the other was I think 11-13 where they explained in more details about sex, STDs and contraception. Well, I was curios, so I actually read the second one earlier, so I knew the facts way before I needed them. I didn't think about having sex before 16 and when I did I knew that "I'll keep you safe" isn't good enough, so if you want to have sex, you better go buy condoms.
@Dippin Dot..and that's what makes you a good mother. People are always overly-protective of their kids. I'm here to tell you, the earlier the better when telling them the birds and the bees. Why? Because the last time my sister-in-law was a counselor for a camp full of 11 year olds, her biggest problem was breaking up kids that had attempted to sneak off in the woods to have sex...some of them she caught in various stages of undress. Girls are getting pregnant at 12 and 13 now. You can't wait until you think they're old enough. It's not a conversation that you can avoid and you don't want to live with the consequences of delivering that message too late.
You made sure that he’s vaccinated against HPV, right?
You, are a great mom!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was 14 and found a copy of Dr Ruth's Guide to Good sex and knew more about sex than my dad ever thought I knew. It talked about sex before and during menstruation, but not what menstruation was.
Relatable. I didn't know about period until mine came for the first time. Imagine my fear when i saw it. Also, lot of the stories above are just men who don't know trying to not be rude. They just don't know cause no one told them.
Although I would not take the responsibility from the parents here. School AND parents. Parents should be a role model that bodies are just normal as they are, and that includes among others women having their period. Anyway, this series only in small parts is about outraging comments from men but really a lot about an astonishing lack of education.
Last week, when I picked up my little boy in kindergarden, a mother was upset because her elder daughter (14yo) "learnt sex" at school, she had to memorize anatomical names from pictures (in fact drawings). She was even more upset that parents around didn't see any problem with this, because school was " putting ideas in kids head" and they shouldn't talk about menstruations because this is dirty... I'm really glad for this girl ( likely to soon menstruate) had the chance to get informations on that point at school. Of course, in a perfect world, her parents would have do the job, but as we're not living in a perfect world...
The trouble is that there are parents who don't teach their children or teach them wrong or misleading things. Schools need to do this so that parents can't get away with teaching their children utter crap. I was lucky - my parents were good in that regard but I heard a lot of playground chatter from children who weren't being given good education. The school aspect is VITAL. Parents should not have the right to overule this either. Ignorance leads to some terrible things happening.
I set a lot of children straight on the playground, but I was lucky--my mom told me everything, and kids were asking questions way before sex ed caught up with what they wanted to know--it's worse now.
My mother never did either. I was born in the Soviet Union where "there's no sex" so no one talked about it. I got my education on the street and god it was flawed! I dodged most of the bullets by self-education, but looking back now I understand how much more I needed to know before I started my sex life. I try to be different with my daughter, talking to her in clear terms and trying to give as much detail as appropriate for each age.
You've been down voted by trolls--your experience says everything, and why we need sex ed for our children
Sex ed will help just a bit, sometimes the info they give is so convoluted and watered down you would be better off looking at a PBS program. It is abysmal.
But even then the sex ed is not accurate!!! But you're right, it must be taught properly!
This just shows the lack of sexual education in general. It is scary to say the least. It ought to be mandatory that men receive education on the body of women...
Yes. And also women about the male body, and women about female bodies and men about male bodies.
Sadly, women are often no less ignorant/misinformed regarding their own bodies, sex, pregnancy, etc.
Well, a little bit less of course: you will quickly discover for yourself that really weird things like 'having a period only once in a lifetime', 'periods being blue' etc. are not correct haha. But I agree, there are lots of women that are ignorant/misinformed about female bodies: about which things impact the chance of getting pregnant, which things are just natural and not a sign that you did something wrong, what technically happens inside your body during a pregnancy, which things are normal (many women thinking their vagina looks abnormal because it doesn't look like it does in porn), which symptoms are not just a fact of life as a woman but are a medical problem, etc etc.
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Sadly, you are terribly wrong.
We had a Great Sex Ed program set up in Ontario in the past few years and the Ford Government and their backward ways cancelled it and returned to something from back in the /60's. because they thought that it wasn't proper to teach kids about same sex relationships, sexting, stalkers, STDs, AIDS & so many other things that we know some kids as young as 12 or less are involved with. We all see the stories of young kids getting pregnant because they develop as young as 9 years old.
As a male, I will never truly understand the pain that women endure. But as someone who has been with the same woman for nearly 30 years, I have witnessed the monthly struggle, and I do my best to alleviate the suffering as much as possible.
why would someone downvote this??? you are very kind
So... you stock up on bourbon and make sure there’s plenty of Advil and chocolate in the house? Because that would make you a saint among men.
Chocolate and Midol, actually
Don't forget the heating pad or hot water bottle
Correction...Godiva and Midol...with lots and lots of wine.....lol
THANKYOU. You're showing empathy, a willingness to learn, and most importantly, a willingness to support your parter (which is exactly what partnerships are about: empathy, willingness to learn, and a willingness to support in whatever ways possible). Unsure why your good intentions got down-votes.
My high school daughter told me her friends think I am the coolest dad. I asked why. She told me because I was the only dad that had no issues with bringing pads or tampons to school for her a couple of times. I am not sure whether to be proud or sad that other dads don't do this.
wow-nice dad
i once had to explain to a man in his 20s that breasts are not hollow ziplock baggies constantly full of milk. you cannot, in an apocalypse situation, cut off a woman's breast to drink the milk inside.
Jesus.
WUATT! This plays in a whole new league of sick!!!
I was dating this guy a few years ago and he got angry one afternoon because I didn't wanna have sex because I was on my period. He thought I was lying because we had sex that morning and I didn't have my period then. I tried to explain that it doesn't start in the morning and finish in the evening. The whole argument went so far that I pulled out my tampon to prove that I wasn't lying. Gross, I know but that was the only way to make him believe me.
That is insane!
You are with a guy who called you a liar. Bye!
sometimes it takes extremes
And these are the men taking our rights away
PLEASE Bored Panda - don't cut this one down to 30. The subject matter is too important.
Could someone please explain why the topic of sex education has gotten SO MANY DOWN VOTES? I'd like to know from the people who are down voting WHY they are doing so... because it seems like the majority of the comments are pro-education...
I don’t get it. I was in elementary school and junior high in the ‘70s. Starting in Grade 5 we had comprehensive sex educations taught by nurses (hats of to the VON, the Victorian Order of Nurses for doing this) that covered everything from a detailed description of the plumbing, what sex involves, how babies are made, what forms of birth control there were at the time, and how to use a condom. ...///... This was in public school, as a unit in science, and it was MANDATORY. no one was excused for any reason, including religious freakery.
Take that to early 80's. We had a sex education segment in 5th grade. That was the time they started to send permission slips home giving parents a chance to "opt out" their kids from the program. I can understand why they did since part of the class went over contraception and many of the students in class were Catholic. But there was an outline of topics on the permission slip so parents could check off certain parts of the class they didn't want their kids attending. Our school really put some thought into setting up these classes..including having the class separated down with girls in one class, boys in another. Questions were also submitted to the instructor anonymously by writing your question down on a piece of paper and putting it in a box. It prevented kids from getting singled out for asking strange questions and/or really personal questions. Maybe sex ed would be more successful if the school districts took time to set it up properly.
Reading other people's comments, I sometimes think sex education was better in the 70s. I know I got very good sex education in school, and thank goodness for that - my mother did not want to talk about it at all. Periods were a dirty shameful secret at home.
Aunt Messy, you were lucky to have grown up in one of the more rational part of the country.
My mother was raised in an uber conservative Catholic home and attended Catholic school. She knew nothing, Her period scared her...he mother came and said "this happens once a month, this is what you do, the end." My brother and I were raised by this woman and when I started my cycle, I got a special dinner and celebration. And then she told my brother! GASP! But it didn't take long to understand the benefit. He was compassionate, caring, he would watch over my needs, go to the store, be extra nice that week. (He still is, his wife adores it). I was lucky enough to get a husband who had the same sort of unbringing. Whew.
It is deeply disturbing to see how underdeveloped sex ed is in some countries. I believe a modern, civilized nation has the obligation to teach their children certain things, proper sex ed being one of them. What I read above is simply a confession of failure.
“Some countries“ in this case seems to be mostly the United States.
Wow, I got about halfway through and had to stop... Depressing, infuriating, and astounding, in this day and age. I'm so sorry these girls had to go through this shit.
Same..
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If only we could all be as enlightened as Nikki D. Said no one ever.
Reads like a long and comprehensive list of arguments for better sex ed. Now, I haven't met every fellow nGerman, but I'm pretty sure I've never, ever heard some of the BS posted here. And I'm so, so thankful for that.
In USA it’s hard to get around the theocratic government to get things like basic education.
He is love, you must not have been watching the news during the second Bush administration when gag rules were put in place that countries who wanted US foreign aid had to push abstinence only sex education and were expressly prohibited from talking about abortion. Abstinence-only education laws were passed in a number of conservative states. What passes for sex education in some states is appalling. No amount of facts mean anything to the conservative "if you educate them, they will have more sex and much earlier" believers. Facts about teenage pregnancies and abortion rates dropping when factual and comprehensive sex education is taught as a regular part of secondary education.
And then, you have this: My family has been in healthcare since before I was born. We had a good family friend who was a family doctor. He told us about a male college student who came to him, very worried, because he was in his 20s and hadn't had his period yet.
also not even ready for a real bra, huh?
XD i really worry about our species
Oh dear! Sorry, I LOL'ed at his expense. He must have been so relieved!
I see the trolls are out in force today.
That explains the downvotes so many sane and reasonable posts are getting... except for the downvote I gave Grumble O'Pug for the absurd reply to Just Curious. Talk about being terribly wrong. Women are often no less ignorant/misinformed... and equally so about men's bodies.
My fiance. .. who is actually super intelligent, thought that sanitary towels went 'sticky side up' . I thought he was joking. But, no. He was deeply serious. I had to explain how the blood would not be absorbed... and let's not forget about the pain of 'waxing your pubes' . I still love to remind him of this 4 years later whenever I slip up.
but..... why? why would he even think that?
I loved sex ed at my school. It was forthright, graphic, detailed, anatomical, and made people pass out. We had very low rates of teen pregnancy and STDs, as you can imagine...
Improved sex ed in the UK has reduced teen pregnancies. How can knowledge be a bad thing?
So much downvoting going on... what is up with that?
Ask religious people. They fear knowledge cause they are stupid. The american bible belt is a big joke. Less sex ed had led there to more teen pregnancies but they just ignore it.
That is true everywhere that has good sex education. The highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are in places that either have no sex ed or use an "abstinence only" variety.
The people downvoting are religious freaks for whom facts are terrifying. ...///... The FACT is that in areas that have better sex education, There are FEWER early pregnancies and marriages, LOWER divorce rates, young people have sex LATER, and they stay in school longer and have LOWER rates of poverty. ...///... If you look at any Southern state, they’re basket cases that suck federal money like vampires....all because they’re so pig-ignorant.
My mother says her mother taught her that getting your period was called "the Bloody Mass." That sounds like something Carrie White's mom would come up with!
As a brother of 3 sisters, (a very honest group) I learned about periods when I was 10 or 11yrs old. I thank God now as an RN, that I was not sheltered from my sister's pains and bodily occurances. I am still shocked till this day of the number of men who accompany their wife's, GFs or daughter's to a gyn appointment and say the stupidist, most uneducated things. One of my "favorites" was when a husband after finding out his wife was pregnant said, "that's great honey, now you'll never have to worry about periods ever again!" The look on his face after I told him that her period would return after about 6 weeks after giving birth, was pure dumbfoundest uneducated confusion. He said, " "Why will she have them again when other women don't?" I left the room as his wife just stared at him.
I thought it was impossible for our politicians to be so clueless about rape, pregnancy, abortion...but it turns out, these guys are getting their entire sexual education from gum wrappers and their equally clueless buddies. I know it's not our responsibility to teach them what life has neglected to, but come on ladies, let's not hide this crap. Tell you coworkers that you started your period or that you need to run to the store for some supplies or loudly says "Marge, I have an extra tampon if you need" at the lunch table. Before you know it, we are going to be worse off than those poor 3rd world country that lock girls in a menstural shed.
And men think they are smart enough to decide what we do with our bodies. Hah.
Don't talk about all men, not all of us are stupid like that. Being sexist is not a solution.
It’s not sexist to say that men were the ones who introduced the legislation. You are repeating “all lives matter” nonsense.
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This is not about sex ed. This is the basic functions of human biology from birth through puberty to death. It's essential. And separating boys from girls in the classes just reinforces the stigma that all these topics are somehow not appropriate for everyone. We all need to understand how our bodies work, male and female.
Do they separate girls and boys now? They didn't when I was at school...which is a very long time ago
If you ever wanna discuss this with anyone, want to educate someone, possibly a child or simply educate yourself I highly recommend Sexplanations on youtube. It's a free sex-ed source with tons of great videos from a wonderful Dr. Lindsey Doe. Seriously. Go show them some love! :)
my parents never taught me sex ed, and my country's so conservative during my school years, I never learn them then. I had my first period very late too, so it was only at 16-17 I got to learn the whole thing by myself. people nowadays has no excuse; google is on everyone's phone. please learn them by now, and not had to rely on second hand knowledge from p0rn like I did.
Downside to using the internet as the only resource means that people might use porn to learn from. It happens and it's not a good idea. I don't know the answer for conservative countries but schools everywhere else need to step up. Parents should be the place children learn from but they aren't always going to be reliable - particularly if they are just passing on incorrect information they were given by their parents or leave it too late. Schools need to teach sex-education so that there is no way parents can get away with misinformation, by mistake or deliberately. Most parents are good but there are enough that fail abysmally.
Google is not the way to learn - how does the child know how to pick the good information from the bad? We know people are notoriously bad at that as adults! It needs people to teach the subject properly. It always scares me that people think not teaching children protects them and keeps them innocent. Makes them more at risk from sex-predators for a start.
I down voted only because a girl shouldn't have to use the internet to look up things like that. It should be taught to them by another human.
I had zero sex ed and had to figure it out all by myself. The same won't be said for any of my children. One month I was on my period and in quite a bit of pain and my 10 year old son asked if I was alright. I explained to him what a period was and what the symptoms were. What he said, "poor women, you shouldn't have to go through that much pain!" He didn't say "ew gross" like even a lot of men say.
Holy shit... I'm clueless on these things. Utah sex ed is garbage; pretty much all they teach is abstinence.
My ex said the clitoris is a mutation that has occured within milleniums and his argument was that there is no need for women to enjoy sex hence why it hasn't always existed.
I can see why he’s your ex.
I am interested in where he got that garbage
He was always thinking about conspiracies. He also considered the Earth being flat and such. We convinced him about these matters but it was really annoying because he would rather believe a conspiracy (because it was against what everyone else believed) rather than considering it and looking for facts as to why a certain information was generally socially accepted without fuss. He didn't want to believe something just because everyone else did, but he also didnt check why everyone believes it in the first place.
Overheard in my office. Two guys vs. two women. The guys were convincing these women that they naturally don't grow eyebrows, once it's "shaved" (they didn't even say "plucked"), it never grows back. *facepalm* I mean, it's absurd to think that, but one can also not know. But to keep convincing the actual subjects about the truth of their own bodies, that's an absurd above absurdities. Just admit you didn't know it and and say "oh, is it? Now I know". And you'll make a better impression as a man, trust me. A logical one.
Don't americans have sex ed at school?
sadly no.... a LOT of schools are in heavily conservative "christian" communities, who believe that teaching sex ed will encourage sex & unwanted pregnancies; despite decades of statistics across multiple cultures, countries, and religions, proving the exact opposite to be true.
All this make me believe that our sex and body function education in Sweden is rather good. No chance what so ever that you make it thru school wothout knowing how menstruation works. You have to be dead to miss this elementary thing. Also, its quite unusual that Swedish guys shy away from buying tampoons etc for their ladies, when they are at the grocery store. At least that stands for guys born after 1970. Older generations can fluster a lot if it comes up.
No, Swedish men born in the 60's have no problem either.
And this is what the religious communities avoidance of education leads to. I have often thought what you could say to someone to bring them to a stand still, I read some here today.
I am very sorry to start this topic but this is one of the bad things about USA. You stigmatise normal things. In most other countries its normal to talk about such things. We have sex ed for boys and girls together. EVERYONE learns how to use a tampon and a condom and everyone learns about menstruation cycles and how babys are made and how they grow in a womans womb. Also we can talk about it normally. We buy tampons in normal stores without getting embarrast. My husband buys them for me frequently.
While I was in college, I volunteered with a small group of middle school girls to discuss issues involving sex and reproductive health. I heard MANY horrifyingly wrong beliefs but this was by far the worst- One girl honestly believed that douching with Mountain Dew after sex was a valid form of contraception! Fortunately I was able to disprove this appalling belief for her, but it still shakes me to my core when I think of the lack of education about sexual health among men and women alike.
Let me guess: this happened in the USofA?
I have heard plenty from females too over the years. Once I knew a couple, Grandparents by the time I met them, and I was told the story of how much trouble they had getting pregnant after they were married (in the 50's). They finally saw a doctor. Turned out they were not officially "consummating" when they tried. They had no clue of the logistical placement of parts to attempt pregnancy.
I think it goes both ways of body ignorance of the opposite sex. Sex education was non existent when my husband and I were kids and it doesnt seem much better now. The internet is helpful and sometimes misleading. Parents need to have serious conversations with their kids. They are going to get the info from someone. Let’s get them the right info.
Freshman year of college. Friend and I were doing training for an upcoming tutoring job. They asked us to write down some information and I hiked up my sleeves to begin writing. He was dumbfounded I had blonde arm hair. He thought blonde women didn't grow hair anywhere other than their heads. Then proceeded to ask if my hair was blonde "down there." I can't blame him too much, our hair really is light enough to not notice, but............ really?
What happened to parenting? People are afraid to talk to their kids about rough subjects. They're afraid to tell their kids 'no' or discipline them in order to teach them ethics and boundaries. They're afraid to hurt their kids feelings and want to be their child's best friend. Here's the kicker...that may have been ok back 30-40 years ago..but you can't avoid being a parent to your kids these days. Because if you don't address certain topics with your kids, they will use the internet to find out on their own...and that's not a safe place for them to learn something as important as sex and life in general. It's better for parents to be that source of information and, if they are unsure about something, to seek out certified educators on the subject. Don't leave your kids to discover this stuff on their own. You might not like what they learn.