My friend tells her daughter that babies came from mommy’s tummy and that daddy put the baby in there! What’s that? Her daughter was three when she heard that nursery tale!!! She also uses these stupid little names for vagina, anus and penis like calling them nee nee and hoo ha. She wants to wait till her daughter is much older to talk to her about STDs and abortion and date rape and refuses to explain the actual process of having sex so that her daughter walks around thinking daddy magically put a baby in mommy’s tummy. It’s weird and I tell her that her daughter will grow up to learn these things from others, if she doesn’t do her job as a parent. She’s repressed though and wants to wait. She says her daughter’s not ready, but I think my friend’s just not ready. Fact is she’ll never be ready.

I’m glad other women aren’t so silly as my friend and that celebrities raise their children to be informed about their sexuality too.

My parents were always very open with me about the topic, and never acted shocked or horrified when I asked about it. When I did ask about it, they just explained it to me, matter-of-fact, in age approprite terms (for example, when I was really little, they just said that mommies have eggs, and daddies have “seeds”, and those things come together to make a baby. They left out the details of just how those two things come together! They knew those could wait until I was a bit older!). I am very grateful that they handled it the way they did. Thanks to them, I’ve never thought that sex was a taboo or dirty topic.