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Rose, Shirley, Nicky, Alex, Eileen, Jackie, Peter, Danny, Claire, Amy, Tara, Raj, Mica, and Shantelle mention parents
What’s your most embarrassing sexual experience?
“And she just looked at us, and went "Just make sure you’re done in ten minutes" and closed the door...”
How did your parents tell you about sex?
“When I did actually start my period, and she said oh, don’t worry about that, it’s a period, and it’s just something you have every month, and that was it.”
How did your parents tell you about sex?
“We don’t have to sit there blatantly talking about sex all the time, but they know they can come to me, they can ask me anything.”
“I come from a strict Chinese Christian family. Sex is absolutely taboo in the house, you can’t mention the word sex without making my parents angry.”
Have you ever been caught masturbating?
“I have quite a traditional Chinese Christian family and my mum thinks that, you know, things like that, it’s a one way ticket to hell. ”
“You know, when you’re 6, you don’t really know what’s happening and why it’s happening. I mean, I thought the guy was peeing on her.”
How did your parents tell you about sex?
“The only sex chat I’ve ever had with my mum occurred when I was about 17 and I’d just come back from a guy I was seeing…”
“I can remember reading a book called The Secret Garden that were about two lesbians, my mother nearly had apoplexy...”
What’s your most embarrassing sexual experience?
“I got promptly marched round to his mother’s and she said that she was going to have him prosecuted cause he was 17.”
How did your parents tell you about sex?
“I certainly don’t remember us having the archetypal birds and the bees talk. Erm... I don’t think anything was really mentioned.”
“By that time I was certainly aware that I was homosexual and determined that it wasn’t going to be somebody else’s problem, I was keeping it all to myself and all under wraps.”
How did your parents tell you about sex?
“When it came to the time for my parents to tell me about sex, erm, it was too late by then.”
Have you ever had a problem using contraception?
“A good form of contraception is always your mother. My mum especially.”
Have you ever talked to your parents about sex?
“I think they just see it as quite a private topic to sort of talk about because obviously they're not, sort of open about it. Whereas myself I'm a very open person and I don't mind what I talk about. ”
Have you ever talked to your parents about sex?
“… I think the only time they have ever said anything about it was I think the only thing my mother ever said about sex was to advise me to have a wee before and after sex to avoid getting cystitis. ”
When was the first time you looked at pornography and what was your reaction?
“I was amused by the whole thing, I think I thought it was suppose to be a comedy magazine just like and I got my friends round and we went through it in my room sort of carefully listening out for my parents. ”
Have you ever talked to your parents about sex?
“...my mum did actually say to me once as teenager "now I would like to think that we are very close and we get on well and can talk about things like S E X” ”
“At the same time we also had the childbirth video, which has left me as a vegetarian for the rest of my life …”
When was the first time you looked at pornography and what was your reaction?
“The first time I saw anything that was pornographic was I was walking to school with a friend of mine and he dropped a magazine from underneath his jacket to the embarrassment of every other school child walking across the road and er, and after being que”
When was the first time you looked at pornography and what was your reaction?
“…really embarrassing we just thought it was a home video, put it in, and it was obviously - porn.”
What’s the most useful advice about sex you’ve ever been given?
“It’s supposed to be something of pleasure erm, it’s not something that you can force ”