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The Next Right Wing Freakout Looms: Obama to Call for Ban on 'Conversion' Therapies for Gay/Transgender Youth

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)4/09/2015 7:45:02 am PDT

re: #389 Lidane

It’s easy to be insecure about something that you’ve been raised to fear and consider shameful.

My own sex ed was non-existent. Mom didn’t talk about it except to tell me that only married people did it. My ex-stepdad would’ve rather had a lobotomy than talk to me about sex, and any other relatives would’ve just told me to ask my mother. When I got my first period, I got some pamphlets from the school nurse and some pads. Mom wouldn’t even buy tampons since she thought they were only for married women.

At least I didn’t have the religious fundamentalist shit poisoning my brain at the same time. That would have been intolerable. It took many years of reading, mistakes, and life experience to even start figuring out sex. I can’t imagine how I would’ve turned out if I’d been raised with the Pat Robertson mindset.

I guess I was lucky in that regard. I never felt uncomfortable asking my Dad about sex.