@Kardamom There was ZERO mention of sex back when I was in school.
I asked my mom how babies are made. She blushed, looked uncomfortable as Hell, and then told me, “You know what Mr. Curtis’s dogs do.” Our next door neighbor, Mr. Curtis, was a hunter and kept a large pen of hunting dogs in a big pen with 4 dog houses in it.
I puzzled over this. I knew his dogs howled at the night-time moon, barked at strange intruders, pooped and pissed in their living space, and sniffed each others asses. Somehow all these things seemed an enormous nonsequitur. The one thing she was talking about them doing, I had never really noticed.
I realized then and there I’d have to educate myself. In doing do, I got my 16 year old girlfriend pregnant just before I turned 18. We thought Norforms were birth control. I married her, but it was terribly tough. I was on track to go to University than grad school That all want out the window. My folks threw me out of the house for disobeying what they had never been able to bring their own repressed selves to explain.
I’m glad things have changed.