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Now see, my mother got me the number one WORST sex education book ever published…

Everything you always wanted to know about sex*

by “Dr.” David Rueben

I mean this quack described “coke douches” and “all gay men want to be women” etc etc etc.

I treasure it as a fine example of “not believing” everything you read.

Thanks “Dr.” Rueben, you old perv!

PS… The publisher recently re-published this quacks pulp fiction novel as sex education and tried to sell this crap YET AGAIN!

The one for girls *is* great!  My mother bought it for me when I was twelve, and it was the best book for me.  (There were plenty of others.) It taught me that it’s okay to masturbate (and gave suggestions on how that’s done), that my body will continue to change (it has!  The book was right!), among so many other things.  I highly recommend these books!

I recently purchased a similar title by that same author “My Body, My Self” (for boys), there are also some good Christian titles being printed on the subject with minimal preaching. 

With two teen boys, there are subjects mom can’t discuss without totally mortifying them.  But, also shouldn’t be left for their peers to fill in. They deserve to know it’s all good, and they are perfect and perfectly normal.

Teddy...I’ve recently seen several publications on this topic that appear quite good...maybe other publishers feel like they are missing the boat and are responding by regurgitate crap from their archives.

ITA. My brother had this book, and I had the “...for Girls” version. We mocked my mom endlessly at the time (she worked at Planned Parenthood and it was all about the sex ed in my house), but I really think the books helped us both.

Thanks, Darlene.  I am a single mom of a 5 year-old boy and have been wondering how I am going to deal with this subject when the time comes.  I am NOT comfortable with letting his dad handle it on his own.  I think I will go ahead and buy this and the one for girls for my daughter too.  They may not be ready for the whole book yet, but I think sex education is an ongoing process, beginning when children are young not just one “Talk” when they are 12, like my parents did it.

I remember the talk with my mom (I’m a woman). She told me that the mom and dad who love each other very much get very very close. I had a terrible fear of hugging for years, seriously. Gotten over it a bit.

HAHA I remember my mom got me this book that was so terrible. The info in it was actually good but the illustrations were terrible. They were pudgy cartoon people from 1970 who obviously did not believe in “landscaping”. I just remember thinking to myself.."if all guys are that hairy I’m not having sex”.

Brianna--You’re right, but part of what I liked about it was the drawings weren’t “tarted up”.  It gave a more realistic look than going to “Jugs R Us” or related websites.

And if the “Euwwww!” factor kept kids from being sexually active for a year or two longer, who am I to complain?[g]

Karibelle, you could buy or borrow a copy now and check it out for yourself.  It might help you answer some of those questions that I assure you are inevitable from little boys.

Brianna -
It was probably “Where Did I come from?” by Peter Mayle.  Remember the mom and dad cartoons in the bath tub?  I remember wondering if they were going to get stuck.

I have never understood why parents complain when SEX-ED books are “too graphic”.  My God, if you can’t be graphic about sex-ed, what on earth can you be graphic about?

Hell, I got most of my sex-ed from the hardcore pornographic novels I nicked from my stepfather’s bookshelves.  While it took me several years to get over it, it was far more accurate information than my mother’s vague, damaging “Tab A goes into Slot B AND YOU WILL GO TO HELL IF YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT IT” talk.

My dad worked for PBS at the time, so he borrowed a whole video on “What Kids Really Want to Know about Sex and Growing Up”, which was awfully good.  Unfortunately, I already knew pretty much everything they said because I’d looked up stuff in the dictionary.  Yes, the dictionary.  Nothing is safe if a kid really wants to know, and Google hadn’t been invented yet.  Of course, I was ten or eleven and I thought it sounded pretty gross at the time. :) I think I would have rather read a book without my mother than watched that video with her, though.

Also, if you want to scare girls out of having sex for a while, show them the “The Miracle of Life” or some other video that has pictures of a woman actually birthing a baby. ;)

My mom had “the talk” when I was 8. She was VERY descriptive. Unfortunately for her, I already knew all that as I attended an alternative hippy school and they were very comprehensive about sex-ed. She did buy me the “Our Bodies, Ourselves” which was really great and I referenced it quite a bit during high school. She also had Sexual Secrets, which I nabbed when she wasn’t home, for more info on this sex thing. My guess is she would have been happy to loan me ‘Sexual Secrets’ but I never asked.

I smuggled the girls version back when I was around 8 or 9.

LorelieLong - OMG THAT WAS IT!!! HAHAHAHA You totally nailed that. My gawd that book was hilarious wasn’t it?

Darlene - I do agree that it was nice to see REAL figures as opposed to the fake breasticles and please-feed-me figures that we see nowadays. However, these people were in serious need of scissors, possibly even a weed-whacker. And the poor man cartoon was not exactly packing...LOL

Think I was damaged for years due to that school presentation in 5th grade, including the awful demonstration of belts & huge maxi pads with tails...really scary stuff.  I was sooo glad to discover tampons & skimpy underwear.

Karibelle...with 3 teens, I’ve had more success with “teachable moments” than one big speech.

I for one was glad they weren’t “manicured”. Hair is nothing to be ashamed of, and there are a lot of young boys and girls who feel stigmatized by this “not a single hair below the eyebrows or you’re a filthy beast” crap that TV, movies, and porn are trying to sell us.

“not a single hair below the eyebrows or you’re a filthy beast”

Hold on to your hats folks!

Gay porn is changing which means the rest of the industry will follow.

Chi-Chi LaRue put out a recent male porno with OMG actual body hair existing on the porn stars. I saw beards which amazed me because I did not think they were old enough to grow them.

I swear, it’s called Link: The Evolution

I was shocked!