Sex Ed at home and at the doctors

Does any one have any stories to share about being educated about puberty at the doctors office?

Or did any of your parents or siblings(family in general) ever take off their own clothes to teach you about the human body and anatomy?

On my end I learned about puberty and stuff mostly from medical books on the subject.

My "official" sex education was at the hands of my mother, fondly dubbed "the ice queen". When I was in the 4th grade, she handed me a book and said I could read it whenever I felt like it, but that it was private and shouldn't be shared with anyone else. It was a paperback, and was extremely dry and factual, no funny business here. That probably dovetails quite nicely with her view of sex, so no big surprise there.

When I was 14, I had my first appointment with an extremely understanding and supportive OB/GYN who would have, I'm sure, given me all the information I wanted. However, I was too stilted by my mother's attitude to have the courage to ask anything.

Actual sex education came from my first boyfriend at the age of 16. He fumbled around just as much as I did, but we had a great time and learned a lot from each other. Now, I consider myself involved in "continuing education", and boy is this fun!

You know what they say, "learning never ends"!

Best to all,

gaze

I learned about sex in the doctors office. Matter fact, my Mother was in the room along with the doctor and he educated both my Mom and I about male puberty. I remember it was about 13 years old when it happen and he gave my Mom some booklets to take home and read. This was the first time my Mom was in the exam room with me and he also gave a full exam in front of my Mom.

I never received any kind of sexual education whatsoever in the doctors office. Needless to say, I did not go a lot, but even when it involved something like a yeast infection as a teen, the most I ever got was when I was questioned if I used condoms during sex.

I get more of an "education" now when I went to the doctor to get birth control in the past month- I am on the Ortho Evra patch, and the friendly doctor educated me on the various types of birth control and advantages, in an unbiased way that is hard to find. However, I learned the majority of my sex education from magazines and my friends- not my school, and least of all not the doctor.

Most of my sex ed came from my older cousin. I was almost 11 and he was 14. He kept things really simple so I could understand it all. In the end he undressed and showed me everything he'd talked about.

Not something i learned about at the doctor's - and not something that i can recall talking about the other side of the desk either. Perhaps because we don't have the same tradition of regular checkups in the UK for children.

My mother also handed me a book, sometime around age 12 or so. Sometime later an older female cousin did some show and tell as well. It was not until my first gyn visit that a doctor addressed birth control, etc.

I never really received any sex education training at home, until I started my period, and we had to buy supplies. I acquired all my information about sex from my friends and school, which usually was not accurate. I was already having sex when I had my first gynecological examination to get on the pill. The doctor asked me what forms of birth control I had been using, and he gave me the opportunity to ask any questions that I had.

My mother used to examine me at home, between doctor visits, and she told me about what was going on with my body. She didnt encourage sex and got angry when I wanted to talk about birth control, but she used to educate herself as to whether she thought I was doing anything or not. I was, but she never caught on although she was poking around my breasts and vagina more than the high school boys were...

I never really got any sex ed at doctor visits. The doctor did explain what she was doing and sometimes commented things about my health and development to my mom (which I hated) but she never really talked about sex ed. My mom bought me a book when I was 11 and we had a few discussions but nothing more than that.

I learned much more from my cousins and from my friend and of course also lot from reading. There was a shelf in the kids section of the library with all kinds of books on your body and puberty and stuff and it was exciting to go there and sneak one of the books and go reading it somewhere in the library. It was funny how exciting it felt to walk to that shelf and pick one of those books while trying to watch that nobody saw you there 😉 For some reason it felt embarrassing to be reading that kind of stuff then and did not want to have any other kid seeing what I was picking from the shelf even thought the other kids hanging around the same section were probably also just looking for a quiet moment to sneak their copy for reading. Funny times 😉

My sex education was quite the AWESOME experinece! 😉

My maturation class in elementary school was taught by a real OBGYN.

Junior High.... My sex education class was taught by my girlfriends dad. She volunteered him. Her dad is an OBGYN.