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Ah, the memories.
posted by
lovellal
on August 22, 2006 at 3:23 AM
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TVBlogger - I was completely clueless that sex even existed at 5 or 6
Once I had entered the mission school, the nuns convinced us that people prayed for babies and God sent them along if they prayed hard enough. As we got older and under their continued deluded tutelage, we kept hearing references to "being impure" ....it took a few years for me to realize that what they meant was thinking about sex. Eventually I got it all sorted out but it took awhile...yep, by the time I was 30... I knew where babies came from.
posted by
gomedome
on August 21, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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TVBlogger
Hahahahaha....That's funny! I think sometimes that would still be a good idea. Ha!
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be a six year old, thinking about that kind of thing.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on August 21, 2006 at 11:06 AM
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Learning about sex
I learned about the act of sex when I was 5 from my 6 year old cousin. I thought this process sounded so disgusting that I envisioned it being performed in a sterilized hospital operating room with doctors present afterwards to clean everything up.
And don't even get me started on the time I found my parent's condoms in their nightsand. I was sure they had been expired for decades and that I certainly must have been adopted since it was impossible that my parents had ever had sex.
BTW, Gome, you make me so much happier with my upbringing and glad I wasn't raised Catholic. Thanks for that.
posted by
TVBlogger
on August 21, 2006 at 10:57 AM
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SuccessWarrior - judging by religious history over the years
Myself and a few billion others were apparently born of virgins.
posted by
gomedome
on August 21, 2006 at 10:46 AM
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gome
That's TOO funny!
Yeah, I guess little kids, and maybe even moreso older ones, can't imagine their parents doing these things. LOL
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on August 21, 2006 at 7:36 AM
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Gome, you never told me that you were born of a virgin
How cool is that?
posted by
SuccessWarrior
on August 21, 2006 at 7:35 AM
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Sunnybeach7 - that's hilarious
I remember back then, possibly a bit younger, when one of the older boys explained to me how babies were made ...I vehemently denied that my parents would never do such a thing. "My parents would never do that.....they prayed for a baby like everyone else"
posted by
gomedome
on August 21, 2006 at 7:31 AM
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gome
Sounds like quite a memorable moment.
You've reminded me of something that happend in 6th grade. It was the first time a friend ever came to me and asked me if I knew what a "rubber" was. I said "Rubber what? Rubber boots? Rubber gloves..." LMAO
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on August 21, 2006 at 7:09 AM
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