Reply #106: No big event, just a gradual fill-in-the-blanks strategy.

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My parents never pretended there was a stork or any such thing, they just explained where babies came from, in general terms. As I got older and asked other questions, they answered. No dramatic speeches or anything. If I asked a question more advanced than they wanted me to know, they just told me to wait, or gave me vague explanations. They figured I'd find out anyway, so they weren't withdrawn about it, usually. I wouldn't say they were open-minded or liberal about it--quite the opposite, in my mother's case. Very old fashioned. But they didn't try to hide anything.

Though I probably learned more in sex ed in elementary school than from them. There was just never some dramatic moment when I suddenly knew something I hadn't before.