pretty much every parent that tries, I imagine. it’s a lot harder to talk about sex with the one that came out of you as a consequence of sex. plus they could get in big trouble if anyone accuses them of pedophilia. why else do you think your parents didn’t give you one? you can’t talk with a book about what’s happening to you, it can’t reassure you that you’re okay, and you can’t ask any questions it doesn’t already answer, so just having books and forbidden to talk with anyone about it can be straight out torture. kind of silly tbh to leave parents with the responsibility for this kind of education.
Okay seriously, does this sort of painfully failtastic Talk ever actually happen in real life? It seems to pop up fairly commonly in fiction, but I have trouble believing any real parent would mess it up that badly and then just drop it forever.
(My parents never gave me one, awkward or otherwise. They just left educational books around and trusted I’d read them, and I did.)
Spike is getting his own car. It’s about time.
pretty much every parent that tries, I imagine. it’s a lot harder to talk about sex with the one that came out of you as a consequence of sex. plus they could get in big trouble if anyone accuses them of pedophilia. why else do you think your parents didn’t give you one? you can’t talk with a book about what’s happening to you, it can’t reassure you that you’re okay, and you can’t ask any questions it doesn’t already answer, so just having books and forbidden to talk with anyone about it can be straight out torture. kind of silly tbh to leave parents with the responsibility for this kind of education.
(My parents never gave me one, awkward or otherwise. They just left educational books around and trusted I’d read them, and I did.)
Most excellent.
we are going to drown in pasta
That got a chuckle out of me.
“Yes. We are all aware.”
“‘We?’ ‘Are?’ ‘All?’ Anyway… don’t do that stuff until you are certain Lily is the one.”
Edited
Yes it is