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[rosebee]

I *LOVE* the post krissita made about How JC Learned About Sex.

And since I'm a lemming, I want to put it here in my own journal as well.


From the new issue of J-14.
In an article about how some celebrities learned about the birds & the bees:

"I was probably close to six, like y-o-u-n-g, and my mom gave me a pop-up book," JC Chasez tells J-14. "Can you imagine that? She would open that thing up. Dude, I'm not lying to you - a sex pop-up book! It was black and inside it had pictures of the inner workings." [...] JC feels that his mom was cool for being so tactful with him, and ultimately, he benefited from it. "She attacked things early and really instilled them in a great way," the singer says. "She was like 'My kid is gonna know about this stuff and he's not going to look at it in the wrong way. He's not going to have his friends tell him what sex is. And then, when kids go up to him, he'll look at them like they're fools.' Then, I'd be like 'Yo, uh-uh, fool. It's not even like that! Ask your mama about it.' I'd end up schooling kids. 'Come over, I'll show you the book!'"


A pop-up book?!?!! When he was only six?!?!!

When I was six, I think all I knew was the "when a mommy & a daddy love each other very much... a baby grows in mommy's tummy..." and etc. I'm pretty sure it wasn't until sex-ed in school in 4th or 5th grade that I found out the rest of it. I was lucky to have a very thorough and complete sex-ed program all through my school years. Because I don't ever remember my mom sitting me down and telling me anything. Except for when I turned 13. She said I was a woman now & capable of getting pregnant and that if *any* boys, including my brother, were in my bedroom with me, the door had to stay wide open. So, yeah, nice & instructional. Thank GOD for school sex-ed programs.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

I don't know, I learned about sex very similar to JC at about the same age. My parents were always very upfront when it came to sex and nudity, etc.

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

Mine weren't. At all. I remember I was maybe 12 or so, and I decided I wanted to sleep in the nude because all my pj's were uncomfortable. My mom found out (when I didn't want to get out of bed immediately when she came in to wake me up), and she completely flipped out! Said how dare you do something like that & that I was never to do that again while I lived under her roof, but that when I was a grownup and lived in my own house I could.

The typical American attitude towards sex, nudity, & etc I think is very conservative when compared to the attitudes held by residents of various European countries.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

Something like that wouldn't have been an issue in my family. My mom is usually the one who sleeps in the nude when it's warm enough ;-). It at least seems that way that Americans are very conservative compared to Europeans. It's kind of sad, because nudity and sex is really the most natural thing ever.

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

I agree, it is rather sad. If & when I have children, I'm going to do my best to avoid imparting those particular American attitudes to them.