elizabeth: Today I heard that 40% of teenagers having sex have not had “that talk” with their parents. You know about sex, teenage pregnancy, 
STDS, AIDS, the sort of things that could stop a young life in its tracks. 40%. So I guess that means that those of us who are not parents will have to give “the talk” right here and now. Well, maybe as soon as we get our info straight.
Laurie: Do you need to ask me any questions?
elizabeth: I am one of seven kids. I found out early on that my parents were having sex. Some fool father said to me once that my parents were either Catholic or careless. Real nice of him to set up some poor dumb kid. I went home and told my parents that they were Catholic.
My mother was pregnant. A lot of the time. Our old home movies have her balancing a birthday cake on her bulging stomach while smoking and having a cold one. Knowing that things came in threes, I was going to put off smoking and drinking for as long as I could. One day in between pregnancies my mother sat me down. The birds and the bees were released upon me and I never felt so grossed out in my life. They did it. And liked it. Good God, they liked it. I asked if I could watch. I got to eat mashed potatoes with grey lumps for 30 days straight. Cruel and unusual punishment for a kid, wouldn’t you say? But I had my own theories. You didn’t really do it. You just were in the same room. Fade to black.
Laurie: All you had to do was come to the streets of Louisville, KY. Sex “education” ran rampant there. Them Southern girls are wild! By the time my mother got around to having “the talk,” I was helping her fill in the awkward blanks. And my poor younger sister was amazed when I told her at age 30 she was allowed to say NO! Maybe if we weren’t such an uptight society, at least in the time of my growing up, the sex you see in television ads, magazines, billboards, and other public venues could be more easily discussed in private. Something’s warped here.
elizabeth: It blows what little is left in my brain cavity that our society shows kids being sexy and provocative but no one is helping them figure out what the hell that is all about. Teen pregnancy is a ridiculous notion. You don’t have babies when you’re still a baby. Period. On yes, the famous period. Well, if they are all pregnant, who needs “that talk.”
Laurie: I disagree, girlfriend. It seems you do have babies when you’re a baby. Now raising them, that’s a whole other responsibility that no one seems to want to take. And the poor uninformed lasses that are attempting not to get pregnant are indulging in anal and oral sex under the guise of birth control. I like my generation better – we just did “it,” felt guilty for a while, and then did it again.
elizabeth: As a non-parent I have been thrown into the world of “where do babies come from?” and “why is my parents’ bedroom door locked?” from kids of siblings and friends. I always tell them the truth. I tell them to ask my mother.
And people wonder why I never had kids.
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