When did you enter puberty?

Just wondering when everyone started puberty, and what age they got the changes, specifically pubic hair and armpit hair?

My testicles started growing and hung lower in the scrotum around 11. I can recall during my first physical during which my underwear was dropped at 11 having the doctor examine the genitals. My testes were hanging between my thighs as I was lying on my back and the doctor picked them up and felt each one. I can still recall that they were between my thighs and not sitting tight under my penis. My penis got longer and thicker sometime before age 12 because I can remember my next exam the doctor picked my penis up off my abdomen, where it was lying, to examine the head and the meatus. I had a few strands of public hair during the physical at age 12. By the physical at age 13, I had a small bush. The trail of hair from my navel to my bush grew around 14 and my bush filled out and extended to my thighs around 16. Hair in my armpits started about 15 and filled in around 17. My legs got hairy around 15. It must be enjoyable for doctors to watch a boy develop from prepubertal through full development.

I remember first finding pubic hairs when I was maybe 11, I've got pretty light hair, so it took me a while to realize they were there lol. I probably had a full bush when I was around 13. I didn't get hair in my armpits until I was maybe 14, and that didn't fill in completely until I was maybe 16/17. I'm 23 now and I'm just starting to get noticeable chest hair lol

By age 12 i started shaving once and a while. Body hair came in at that time, too.

I don't remember the hair part, just that over the summer between 7th and 8th grades, I started noticing that all those pain in the ass girls had breasts and just looked different.

Elaine

Seventh grade was a traumatic time for me. My breasts were just starting to show, well at least enough that my mom bought me my first bra. Then over Thanksgiving that year I got my first period. I don't think there was hair anywhere for at least another year and I didn't shave my legs or my armpits until I was in high school. At least among the friends I hung out with I was neither first nor last with boobs or my period.

I think I was in 7th grade. Guys don't have a dramatic event like menarche, but I remember growing hair and being annoyed by it. I shave it several times but it just came back anyway! So I eventually gave up. I also learned to masturbate about then, which absolutely astounded me when that stuff came out! Yikes!!

I started getting pubes in the 5th grade, and constant erections? Lol! I dreaded having to read our text in front of the class. Because even if wind breezed by me. Instant erection..

I started sprouting pubic and armpit hair between 11 and 12. My voice didn't start changing until I was almost 13

Puberty was a horrifying time for me. I was ten years old and my xtian-fundamentalist family had done everything in their power to keep me ignorant about anything having to do with sex. Fundamentalists hold ignorance about anything in very high esteem because satan can’t tempt ya if you can’t figure what the hell he’s trying to make you to do wrong! Then (all of a sudden, it seemed) my genitals started becoming way larger (or maybe I took note of them for the first time) and my scrotum not only expanded but took on a life of its own. I remember I’d sit naked on the edge of my bathtub with my legs crossed, which would push my testicles tight together in my sac and cause them to move around all by themselves. I can’t say which came first—the hair or the enlargements. I was so totally distracted by having constant raging boners and needing to cover the tenting or the dark, wet stains in the front of my jeans. But so my parents, in their unsuccessful efforts to save my soul, let me think for several years I was dying of some unspeakable disease. Thank you, jeezus, mom and dad! But dying didn’t seem so terrible when it made me jerk-off at least six times a day and two or three more at night. Actually, the most difficult part of puberty was suddenly being the tallest guy in my grade. All I’d ever wished was to fade into the wood-work or at least blend in entirely, hoping the gay-bashers would leave me alone. But instead I was like a foot taller than any of them were and was shaving my side-burns and mustache daily before I turned eleven. For some reason I recall getting armpit hair more than pubic because it wasn’t something that could be hidden during my shirtless summers. Also, I really liked the texture of my pit hair and the way it felt against the smoothness of the rest of my body. And finally, I really got off on the way I began to smell. Even though I took a daily shower I was so brimming with testosterone that five minutes after I’d step out the glass doors and be toweling off the air around me would be swirling with musk. I loved the scent on myself and later developed an absolute fetish for the odor of musk on other older guys. To this day I infinitely prefer my sex partners to be clean but not to use deodorants or other artificial colognes or concoctions. One of my lovers used to refer to all those revolting fragrances advertisers tried to convince us we absolutely needed as “Stink Pretty.” Sort of I feel like I actually missed out on puberty, I really never got to be just a kid, because at age 14 I was abducted off a beach in a foreign country and brutally molested for four days. After that experience I don’t recall ever feeling like a youngster, even for a moment, again in my life. The words “care free” just don’t register in my head, I totally have no reference point for them.

I developed pubic and armpit hair whilst I was pretty young also- certainly I was shaving my legs and armpits by the time I was about 10. I remember being mortified when I started secondary school and learning that I would have to use the communal shower with the other girls after PE; my big fear was that I would be the only one who had full pubic hair and wore a proper bra, not the tiny little training bras. My fears were not unfounded. I had my first period the week before my 12th birthday.

I was 11 when I first noticed pubic hair and then I started getting armpit hair. I wasn't that surprised by my first orgasm because I had been masturbating since I was around 9 and I actually don't even remember the first time I saw my own semen. I hated the fact that I had to start using deodorant but quickly realize that without it I would become rather stinky. What I did notice though was how I would become embarrassed when my parents gave me my daily enemas just because I know they could see hairs starting to develop and for some reason that bothered me, maybe because I wasn't a kid any more. I loved the fact that I could become erect in an instant whenever and wherever I wanted and could masturbate several times a day if I wanted, now I am in my mid 30's and wish I could still become erect that quickly but I have noticed my sex drive starting to slow down.

I was a late bloomer with hair, around 14 started seeing pubes (and pulled them out), don't think I shaved until I was 16. Still light on the body hair overall. I do remember playing with my erection and even tying my penis starting around 8. When I was around 12 or 13 and all my friends would brag about ejaculating, I would beat my self bloody trying to cum. Finally just before I turned 14. I thought I was alone in the constant masterbation until I read this post!! Still do tho not nearly as often as then

I went into puberty at about 17, my Mom told me it was delayed as I had issues down there. I didn't develop and never much body hair, more peach fuzz

Couldn't ejaculate till then either

GF got boobs around 8/9, was a full C by 12 and started getting hair around 12. It was light blonde until 17 or so. Now it's a light brown/dirty blonde.

I remember finding a single, long dark pubic hair while I was at summer camp when I was 12. Things progressed rapidly after that. By time I was 16, I had a full, thick beard and could buy alcohol without getting proofed.

I entered 7th grade when I was 12, turned 13 in January. That was the first year of middle school which meant gym classes with group showers. At the beginning of that year, I was one of the hairless boys. By the end that year I had pubic hair and my dick and balls were were not embarrassingly small. Armpit hair arrived over that summer and everything between my legs continued to enlarge. Leg hair started at my ankles and worked its way up my legs. Got a 'happy trail' next then chest hair started over my sternum and spread out from there. By 9th grade I had a fuzzy mustache that I would trim from time to time with dad's razor. Full facial hair and daily shaving arrived at age 17.

My puberty was really too late, doctors said. I was 16 and a half years old, when I got my first pubic hairs and puberty signs. The doctors said, that the reason for that would be that I had a late surgery of an undescended testicle when I was 6 yrs. old. My right testicle stayed clearly smaller than the left one. My mom had to take me to an urologist for regular puberty checks in my youth time since I was 15, too. These exams were very embarrassing for me, too.

Pretty sure I had pubic hair and armpit hair when I was ten. I think shortly thereafter my balls dropped, but I don't think I masturbated until I was a freshman in high school. I clearly remember having erections and wondering what to do with them. Kids called masturbation "choking the chicken", so I thought I had to squeeze it to masturbate. This did nothing for me until one day I was showering and I started to play with my erection which popped up while I was soaping up my genitals. I noticed how sensitive the end of my penis was and so I kept massaging it until shortly thereafter I shot my first load across the shower onto the wall. I almost passed out but from then I was hooked. I jerked off endlessly until I found a girlfriend who would do it for me. I was 16 then.

I was hairless between my legs until I was in eighth grade. By the end of the year I had grown a fairly thick bush. I was really shy about my lack of pubic hair until I saw that many other boys my age were hairless too. My brothers started growing hair when they were ten.

I remember having a full bush of hair on my vagina when I was about 9 years old but the hair wasn't real thick and I started my period when I was 13

Puberty for guys probably isn't as memorable as it is for girls—no big event occurs every month. But I do remember having to shave when I was like just barely 13, earlier than most of my friends. Had pubes some time before, maybe a year or so, but don’t remember exactly, sort of like the pit hair it just started. My dad had a talk with me when I was about 12 that I better use deodorant every day or I would be forced to move to France. Especially in junior high school I noticed some of the guys were still pretty bare in the showers when I had a bunch of hair.

Freshman year of high school we were playing shirts and skins basketball. Some girls were watching us and one of them asked me later what was at the end of that big treasure trail—then she just giggled. I didn't know what she was talking about; I guess I was a little naive about stuff. By the end of high school I had a bunch of hair across my pecs and end of freshman year of college full chest of hair.

I think a lot of it is just genetics.

My dad had a talk with me when I was about 12 that I better use deodorant every day or I would be forced to move to France.

? I'm sure there's some kind of unflattering assumption in this, but I don't seem to get it.

I know I was unfortunate to go through puberty very early. I remember being taken to the Dr when I was about 7 for a checkup after being observed to have large genitals while changing after swimming lesson at school. This was the start of many embarrassing checkups for the next few years.

Don't remember when I started getting pubic or armpit hair.

I remember starting to get armpit hair at 8 years old. By 9 years old I had a full bush of pubic hair. Around my 10th birthday I woke up one morning and suddenly had Breasts. A month after my 10th birthday I started my period.

Puberty doesn't hit all at once but it seemed like it did to me because one day I noticed how different everything was around 13. Voice changed, armpit hair, pubic hair and then the penis and balls suddenly look huge compared to the boy version. By 14, the penis and balls look so much bigger and out of proportion to the rest of a really skinny body. Around then, the wet dreams started and that was a whole different thing. Couldn't figure that out at first. I would wake up really early in the morning and have the feeling like something that just happened that I couldn't explain. My briefs would have a big wet spot on the crotch and at first I would think that I peed myself and then realized that it wasn't that. When I started in boy scouts, the the longer campouts were rough because the wet dreams didn't take a break just because I wasn't home. Since we had to share tents, one time I knew that the other guy in my tent had a wet dream in the night and so did I. We both tried to change our underpants before going out for breakfast and pretend like nothing happened but we didn't fool each other, I don't think. About the same when we all slept in cabins at boy scout camp. Lots of boys getting out of bed slowly and without underwear like they had slept in the nude when we knew they hadn't.

Agracier, just a bit of a family joke, my father’s mother was from Switzerland. Her family was basically German and Italian Swiss so they made fun of the French both in and out of Switzerland. I understand from cousins and others in Switzerland that the nation sport is making fun of the French. The thought was that the French did not use deodorant. I have a feeling that they probably do but whatever—that was the joke. You‘re from Belgium; don’t they make fun of the French too?

I had pubic hair by 12-13 years. Face shaving started at 17.

The thought was that the French did not use deodorant. I have a feeling that they probably do but whatever—that was the joke. You‘re from Belgium; don’t they make fun of the French too?

Historically, I seem to remember from reading, that the French were instead thought to use too much perfume and scented water, being often thought just a tad too dandified. But whatever ... that is probably a holdover impression from Louis XIV and Versailles and Napoleon III and the Belle Epoque. Many Americans on the other hand only first encountered French people in a massive way during WWII and with wartime shortages of just about everything during the Occupation - including hot water and soap - they got erroneous impressions of the country, which however still exist in popular culture.

In Belgium, it seems the national sport is making fun of the Dutch. And for a large part of Belgium, French culture in many popular and sociological manifestations is simply extended into everyday Belgian life. France is a country to look up to, Paris is the Big Time where you go if you have it made. The Netherlands is a dreary, crowded place with even worse weather than here ... ha ha.

Twisted, dirty thoughts (foreshadowing later-developing fetishes) starting around age 8. Common boners by 4th & 5th grade (10-11 yrs.). Routine masturbation by age 11-12. Pubes came slowly, beginning age 12-ish.