Oh my god I’ve got so many 😭

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    well my sex ed consisted of a man who would later that year get fired for hitting a student telling us that premarital sex will result in pregnancy and then having us perform a play I can only describe as racially charged about the subject

    after being fired he went on to become a far right politician

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    I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe. I remember holding a presentation in grade school about AIDS, but that was half made by my grandma and I barely understood what I was reading from my papers.

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      I think we had the basics covered early. Too early maybe.

      I basically had my sex ed delayed a year or two from the other students because as a fourth grader I would mostly just tune out when the teacher started talking.

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    The hymen is not normally ripping at the “first time”, but these myths come from brutal men that have no compassion and dont know how to make both people horny.

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      Breaking a hymen when you first have sex is indeed a myth, but so is the idea that sufficient arousal will prevent tearing every hymen.

      Hymens come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and elasticities. They can tear from many things but most people with hymens are quite likely to experience minor tearing or bleeding the first time they have sex. That’s especially true if the hymen is particularly large or thick and if you haven’t torn it before the first time you had sex.

      That’s the last myth, even if breaking a hymen was a real thing required for sex, it doesn’t say anything about virginity because many girls tear it in childhood and puberty from a variety of activities as innocuous as swimming.

      https://flo.health/menstrual-cycle/health/period/what-is-hymen-and-how-it-changes

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    Until about halfway into my teens, no one told me that periods were painful, or involved behavior altering hormone releases. I thought my sisters were becoming moody & rude for no reason, & feel I might have been much more sympathetic had I known.

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      Well, it’s a spectrum. I worked with a woman that was spending the whole time in our office laying on the floor during her period because how painful it was. But I’m also married with a woman that doesn’t have any symptoms at all and when asked about she said the only annoyance was having tampons ready.

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    I didn’t understand the concept of a climax until it happened. The first time crankin it I remember mid way through thinking “I don’t get it, so if I keep doing this it just keeps feeling better and better infinitely?” When it happened it was one of the most stunning moments of my life.

    • SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
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      Until my first ejaculation, I thought the only time something came out of my penis was when I was peeing. I was so surprised when something else came out and holy shit there was so much of it everywhere. I didn’t know that could happen and it made a mess all over my surroundings.

      Last minute addition: I thought a woman could get pregnant if a man licked between her boobs. This was before my first ejaculation.

      • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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        I had my first real ejaculation while I was sleeping as a kid. The one time I slept over at my grandma’s. She never said anything but boy did I have impecable timing.

  • Not embarrassing, just disappointing.

    Precum contains next to no sperm, so it’s really unlikely to get pregnant from it. Apparently Sex ED universally exaggerates that chance so that people don’t get the dumb idea to rely on pulling out.

    I mean it’s probably the right way to teach it that way, but you know, if someone theoretically had a bit of an impregnation kink, it sure would make them sad :(

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    Believed this until I was like 16 and so did everyone else in our school.

    A girl did anal and got pregnant and since it was anal that got her pregnant she was gonna poop out the baby. Funny thing is I was part of the group conversation that started this rumor and STILL we all believed it.

  • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]@hexbear.net
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    Not really a hilarious assumption, but it was only this year that I actually learned anything more than the names of a few STIs. It’s good to familiarize yourself with the risk profiles and treatment options of the common ones, and get tested regularly if you’re sexually active.

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        Yeah, I like Arnold and I picked this username everywhere online which was a mix of predator and kindergarten cop, and unique enough that I always get the username everywhere, and I type out quotes when I can. Unfortunately sometimes this quote has been taken the wrong way though I don’t mean offence to any person :)

    • 6xpipe_@lemmy.world
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      I know this is from Kindergarten Cop, and it’s unfortunate that it just happens to sound like right wing rhetoric in the current political climate. So know that at least one person didn’t downvote you.

      I also didn’t upvote to counteract those downvotes because it’s kind of a dumb, low-bar joke.

  • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    Let me just say here how much I appreciate the sex ed I got in school.

    I’m talking life-size cross-section models of a human torso that you could take individual organs out of for closer inspection.

    One thing we still didn’t learn much about is how wildly different periods can be for different people, I very much appreciated a friend explaining this to me.

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        Different people can have different cycle lengths, durations, and intensity/pain/flow during ones period.

        All those things can also vary for the same person month to month and it can get even more variable as you move between life events (having kids, getting older).

  • Lemisset@lemmy.world
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    I learned in college (from my nurse girlfriend) that if a girl is taking antibiotics that it invalidates her birth control pills for the month and you need to use condoms until after her period.

    Spread the word, brothers.

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      That’s not really true.

      Sure it’s true for rifampicin and rifabutin (and maybe one more similar one). But those are used to treat TB.

      All the standard ones you’d take are fine for birth control.

      Edit: Thanks to some people who are more knowledgeable than me on the topic, there are some others, or secondary effects you should consider.

      Moral of the story: if in doubt ALWAYS use more contraception. Best to be safe out there.

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          It’s easier to tell people to just use a rubber when on antibiotics rathern than explain to them that it’s only for some unpronounceable substances for most of the population and have them memorize a list of substances for which it’s safe to go on as usual - azithromycin is safe, amoxicillin is not. They may sound fairly similar to a layman.

          It’s because some substances (in this case, antibiotics) mess with the units in your body that process them and prepare them for excretion. They may inhibit or induce them, but these units process a whole load of other stuff. Including birth control, which can lead to less activity from the birth control pills because they’re inactivated quicker (in case of induction) or the biotransformation to the active form is slower (in case of inhibition, for prodrugs that are inactive as is, but have active metabolites, no idea if this is the case for birth control though).

          A similar thing happens with alcohol, for example, which is why you should always be honest with exactly how much alcohol you drink or what other drugs you take when talking to an anaesthesiologist, or any doctor prescribing you any sort of medicine, lest you risk ineffective anaesthesia or treatment (the first one is worse imo).

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      I meannnnnn I’m pretty sure my mom still thinks this. When I was a late teen / young adult, we watched the movie “Quest for fire” together.

      When one of the protagonists starts having sex with one of the women, doggy style, my mom said “Well they won’t get very strong children doing it this way”. An idiom in French Canada to say conception won’t happen.

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    Mine was “Not all women like being touched the same way”. As in, some women can’t reach orgasm from penetration alone, but some do. Some want direct pressure on their clitoris, some do not. And this all makes sense, not everyone likes the same things.

    And that is, for me at least, where the fun is. I like to figure things out. I like to see how stuff works. And women are pretty awesome. What would be a better evening than figuring out exactly how to pleasure someone, through communication and experimentation? I’m still finding ways to push my wife’s buttons 14 years later.

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      Sucks when the person doesn’t like to communicate with you and just ignores her own issues to just satisfy you.

      I was less satisfied because I wasn’t allowed to figure it out and just felt like a bad person. The sex drive went down for her after a year, no wonder, but its not my fault either.

      2 years later and I broke with her up as she was pretty manipulative and impossible to talk to from the beginning.

      • pelletbucket@lemm.ee
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        the number of times a girl has been taken aback when i take a moment to ask “so what gets you off?”

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        Sounds familiar. I wasn’t doing it practically at all for my ex, and I could tell, but she refused to acknowledge any problem. Like, she wasn’t cumming. She said she was.

        I remember the literal one time I made her cum she said in this sort of surprised voice “I … I’m cumming”.

        It’s not that orgasms were new to her. It’s that because I wasn’t pleasing her, she assumed I had never pleased any woman and that I didn’t know the difference. So she just lied, and went to find other men to get her to cum. As in, just cheated on me to get what she needed.

        That hurt extremely bad. Hearing that something’s not working for my partner is slightly deflating, followed by exciting again when whatever we changed makes it work. Hearing (implicitly) that I’m too hopeless to even be notified of the problem, fucked with my head badly.