I Didn't get a sex ed

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I Wasn't given a sex ed class so I learned mine on Wikipedia ..

is that bad ? Also I'm not 13 I'm much older

Yeah, Wikipedia may not be the best source for information. I'd look elsewhere.

Yeah, Wikipedia may not be the best source for information. I'd look elsewhere. There have been many studies done on the subject, and if whoever wrote the article gives citations, I would use those and look at the raw data.

What's up with this goofy website?

Wikipedia is about as accurate as you're going to get on the raw information. Unfortunately, it's not going to give you the messy details of interactions between the sexes. Not that you were likely to get that in any IRL sex-ed class. I'm assuming that we're talking about hetero relationships here. Not always a safe bet, but it's still the most likely.

It's long been my contention that if we taught kids to swim the way we teach them to interact with the opposite sex, we'd keep the kids perfectly dry until they're teens, then put them on a boat and dump them in the water a kilometer out and say "Shore's that way, kids!"

We'd ridicule the drowners as losers for not automatically knowing how to swim, and we'd also ridicule those who got to shore "a bit too fast, if you know what I mean."

I suspect you're older, but a good place to start would be [url=scarletteen.com]Scarlet Teen[/url]. It's a great resource for just about any question you have, and has a Q&A if you have a new one.

In this day and age you have the internet. There are such courses available from the government(s) itself, private organizations, medical websites, etc. Just don't get your 'ed' from ... well, adult sites. That really is the wrong kind of 'ed'.

I didn't have sex ed either and had to learn everything by asking friends. I went to private Christian school in the 70's and this was before the internet. I have no clue how any of us learned anything. I ended up losing my virginity when I was 15 though, like a couple of my other friends. Again, 1979. Things were different then.

How old are you, because I don't want to suggest something that is not age appropriate.

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Sex ed literally taught me nothing, it was a week of class just giggling at boys and girls parts and this gross video from the 70s of some woman giving birth. Perhaps being a city kid I grew up faster I dunno, I wasn't that naive and I think with the internet its the same with most kids today. I never got why some people think its this magical thing where the clouds part and it finally makes sense for all these boys and girls, parents first and foremost should be responsible for educating their kids on these issues.

I never got a sex ed either, but the knowledge just came to me naturally.

The only sex ed I ever received was about STIs and how you should wait to have sex until you're married. That's all that was ever talked about, and this was at a public school. I never learned anything about female anatomy; I've had to go online to find any information.

I didn't get sex ed either. I only got Health class and we did have a class about puberty when I was in 6th grade but it said nothing about sex. I learned more about sex just from having it with my ex and being exposed to porn online by creeps.

I got vague sex ed in the last few years of primary school and annually in the first years of secondary school. Being Catholic Schools, they mainly focused on the mechanical aspect of heterosexual goings-on. I often fainted during these sessions, having a natural disgust of what goes on inside the human body and a phobia of mutilation - how else would they know what was going on there?

Despite that, I'm still extremely concerned that they didn't get into condoms.

OP, I think it's an absolutely travesty that you haven't been given any sex-ed by the age of 13. Accurate information about how your body works and what you can do with it ought to be a human right. Likely you'll end up scouring the internet for accurate and specific information and end up reading a lot of nonsense. I recommend you go have a look at Scarlet Teen - it might be a bit Tumblr-y for your taste, but it's a start.

I have never really gave sex education much thought, I figured people just learn these things on their own. I learned about sex from being molested which obviously isn't an idea way of learning about this stuff. Seeing as how I am a guy and was abused by another guy I had a few details screwed up but I later watched porn around 14 than taught me what I didn't already know at that point.