I guess it’s possible her urethra was in a non-standard place. I thought that normally happened to boys, though. I just tried googling to try and find out, and happened on some horrifying illustrations of corrective surgery for that condition. Yikes!

Isn’t this a bit self-righteous for someone who knows none of the involved parties?

As someone who has taught sex ed, can I recommend you inform your children of these two facts...

I'm such an advocate of not forcing kids to hug/kiss someone if they don't want to. My mom would always try to make my niece (she's 3 now) hug me and has stopped only because she got tired of my lectures about bodily autonomy. Haha. Dude, she's 3 and I see her maybe every 5-6 months since we live 900 miles apart. It's…

My version of this was around age 15 or so. My Girl Scout leaders (the most awesome trio of ladies EVER) invited an ob/gyn to one of our meetings to answer questions. The meeting before, we’d all written down questions and put them in a big envelope so that no one would feel awkward about her question. It’s a tribute…

I grew up with these books and I was born in 1970. I can still see the boy with a erection on the end of the diving board as clearly as if it was yesterday! We were from a small town and it seemed like our parents coordinated giving me and my friends these books at exactly the same time ( about 8 years old and 11…

that’s definitely a possibility. but I think she really thought we didn’t notice. like she would start rocking back and forth on the edge of the chair while having a conversation, and start getting flushed.

These books are great classics, and may I also recommend It’s Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends.

I remember being like four and being so confused when people said it was from a stork. Like the baby is obviously inside the mom and she pushes the baby out. Why else would her stomach be so big?

I am similarly sex-positive, but I have a fifth grader and a sixth grader, and I agree. We are working in a group with a private sex ed facilitator, and we’re slowly working through the basics. I am not prude at all, and if one of them asked me about sex toys, I would explain. But they truly aren’t there yet. I want…

Yeaaaaaah.

yep, this. there was a girl who thought we didn’t all notice her doing it in the high school library. :/

I can not stand the fake explanations parents give for conception. One coworker told me about how they told her 4 year old that mom and dad went to the bean store and picked out the most perfect bean and she swallowed it and now it’s growing into a baby in her tummy.

As someone who

We already have a troll.

Yeah, my parents taught me it was normal too, and though they told me to do it in private, I didn’t always listen. There were many times that two-year-old me would be grinding on this giant stuffed panda my Busia and Dziadzia got me in the living room and my brother would yell out “Moooooom, she’s doing it again.” I…

You should teach your very young child that masturbation is perfectly normal but private activity. My darling mom was totally cool and open about self pleasure (I grew up with no hang ups about it) but she neglected to tell me about the ‘keep it private’ part. I learned about that from my 3rd grade teacher. :/

Not really. More like not-at-all-veiled incompatibility. We’re from the same place and similar economic circumstances.

But to ascribe ALL her success to that? You don’t see the problem?

Look, post that on Jalopnik and the sex will be a sad fourth on the list of questions, behind “was the Volvo brown”, “was it diesel” and “was it a manual”. And that last one still doesn’t relate to the sex…