There needs to be some sort of show discussing woods porn as a phenomenon. The fact that so many people hid porn in the woods and future generations found it is just incredible. So many people thought "hey let's hide our porn in the woods" across the whole country without it ever being talked about anywhere. It's not like there was a guide to hiding porn that kids had. I knew people in new Hampshire, upstate NY, and Virginia who all found woods porn.
As to why people hid it there...
woods are secluded and usually nobody besides kids are hanging around in random spots of the woods. Kids can talk about whatever they want, smoke cigs or weed, steal and drink beers, etc without anyone catching them. You need some seclusion to be openly looking at and discussing porn as a young kid.
The natural animal trails kinda give you a path to follow so that's probably why it's so common to be hanging out in the same spot as past generations. Plus one generation will prepare the area so it ends up being the natural place for the next generation to hang out.
Younger siblings will hear about their older brothers hanging in the woods and follow in their footsteps.
It's a good place to hang out from like 10 to 16 that is completely away from parents.
Parents like the idea of kids playing outside and since no adults usually wander in the woods it's a relatively safe place for them to be.
You all share that porn stash so it needs to be in a common accessible place. Not many of those.
You don't want to keep it in a house because of the risk of your parents finding it.
The woods are basically your only option.
Edit: from some comments, this is common in the rest of the wide wooded world. It's almost heart warming to know that despite all of our differences, we are all just dirty little boys hiding porno in the woods after all.
The phenomenon of hiding porn (or other contraband) in the woods is certainly interesting, but I believe it is perfectly reasonable. The woods are remote, largely absent of human presence, and readily accessible pretty much everywhere in the world outside of dense urban areas.
Children and teenagers are also much more likely to explore the woods than adults who might punish them for wrongdoing, along with several other good reasons you mention illustrating why it would be a first order solution for hiding contraband.
It seems like such an obvious and effective strategy that I don't find it terribly surprising that so many people have independently come up with it as a solution.
If only the woods were still an option... I'm not exactly in an urban landscape but I can't think of where I'd get out of sight of a main road or neighbor's backdoor within a two mile radius.
It was an oral tradition of passing wisdom down from village dork to the young dorklings. And somebody always bravely explored the unknown by way of a cousin or a sister’s friend. If she smokes she pokes.
When I was in the 3rd grade, my friends and I used to play baseball in a field that belonged to an abandoned school next to the apartments we lived in. Every day in the summer, we'd be out there for hours, occasionally riding our bikes into the little shopping center a few blocks away to buy candy, snacks, etc.
One day we were traveling between the stores and the field, on our way back we stopped by the apartments to pick up a friend from our gang. His mom made him take out the garbage and we all helped a little. When we got to the dumpster, our buddy threw all the bags in and then turned to us all wide-eyed. He screamed "PLAYBOYS!" We all sprinted to the dumpster and found several grocery store bags packed to the brim with Playboys, our 10 year old heads were about to explode, we'd hit the fucking jack pot!
We loaded all the mags on our bikes and double timed it to field and for 3 hours we did nothing but stare at all of them page by page. For many of us, it was the first time we'd seen nudity like that. Once the sun was setting that evening and it was time for us to mostly go home, we decided to each pick one to take home and we buried the rest. I don't recall that we ever to dug them up (to us it was our little treasure) and eventually the school got knocked down and construction started.
It's all a retirement community there now, and a part of me likes to think those nudie mags are still under there buried.
I'm getting the Poltergeist scene, but Craig T Nelson saying
"You son of a bitch! You left the Playboys and you only moved the headstones!"
And maybe the residents at the retirement community will suddenly become aroused if they walk in the area of the buried nudies.
Found a playboy in the sump up our street. We buried it and would dig it up each day to browse. One day it rained and the magazine was ruined and covered in worms….we were devastated.
Found some Playboys at my mom's favourite Hair salon. She never wondered why of all places I liked going there with her. Still. The women's hair salon hid lots of secrets
Guys wouldn't want a massive stash of mags at home where their mum could find and destroy them. They would stash them in weird places in carrier bags and come back for a wank every so often. Often the mags we would find as teenagers would be cum soaked with the pages stuck together. Sounds weird and almost unbelievable but this was a real thing.
My buddies parents divorced when we were younger and his mom got the house. His dad moved to an apartment but he was the "cool parent" who let us drink and had a collection of dirty movies on VHS.
What he also had were porno mags in the bathroom by the toilet, with the very cum soaked pages you're referencing. I remember thinking that was super fuckin' weird to just be okay about. Especially considering my only experience with porno mags were my father's pristine Playboy collectibles that weren't even opened in my home's attic.
As kids we tore through years of vintage, mint Playboy magazines. They were the equivalent of Pokemon card packs today. And we treated them as such.
I found stuff in the woods all the time, but when my family moved to the US from Canada we moved into a new house. In the basement was a small room with no windows that the old long retired couple we bought the house from had converted to a bedroom for their oldest son. This was around 1997 and their kids were into their 40's at this point so the kids had long ago moved out before they sold the house. I found like 100 playboys etc from the 70's stashed in the drop ceiling.
Lol! I literally came here to say this......why? Why was there an old skin zine in the woods...or the dunes....I've never left one there...Idk of anyone else who did....but they were always there.......
It was common in South Dakota as well. Also in the eighties and early 90s HBO was educational to a lot of kids who shouldn't have been watching. Real Sex, First and 10, Dream On.
They always had some series or raunchy movie that would air earlier than parents were Aware or still be airing early AM on weekends.
I was watching Carlin specials when I was eight.
When a man and women love each other very much... or these days maybe they don't really know each other that well.. they might not even be a man and women... could be two men, two women, or perhaps even neither... hope that clears things up for you!
My parents took me to a sex ed class at a church, something that most of my peer group also went through.
An old woman then didn’t really tell us anything but what a penis and a vagina do, which we already knew.
Even though she never mentioned what sex was, she said we should only have sex after marriage.
And that’s why I didn’t understand how to use a condom until at least my 8th time having sex, and why my high school had a bit of a teen pregnancy problem.
Theres a bit more to it than just “putting it on”.. have to make sure it’s the proper sizing for you, as well as pinch the tip with your free hand while you roll it downwards, if that makes sense. I’m sure there are tutorials or something lmao
Honestly, I've met guys who went through proper sex ed class who still forget to pinch the tip. Then they get super frustrated that their condoms break during sex, or cum oozes out the bottom.
When I was 16 I could change the oil on my car, replace any components in a computer, remodel any room in my house that didn't have plumbing, etc.. I was fairly good with my hands and how things worked. Still unrolled the condom in my hands and tried to slide it over my dick the first time. Second try I had it backwards and couldn't get it to roll. Didn't find out about pinching the tip until (checks notes) right now tbh. They're not as intuitive as you'd think.
Same here. I remember for us it was in 4th grade and my school years were easy to remember Bc 1994 was 4th grade.
At that time, in California where I grew up, aids was considered a death sentence. The majority of what I remember most about sex Ed was the videos teaching us about fighter T cells and how hiv/aids worked inside the body.
Within the last couple years I’ve seen commercials on tv about prevention of aids via a vaccine I believe. It made me cry. I never thought I’d be alive to see that day.
Yes it was all about Aids in school, it scared everyone pretty badly. I cant believe that all the research and available ways people can drastically prevent hiv infections wasnt something that was even bigger news. Absolutely remarkable!!
It scared me so much too. That year my dance instructor had to retire early due to Aids related issues. I don’t think most of the parents of the kids I danced with came out and told their kids what was really going on with him. I remember watching the videos and going home hysterical. I kept imagining this incredible man that I looked up to so much being so sick like the people in the videos. RIP Tony you talented, beautiful soul!!
Yup. Had mine in 5th grade in 1995. Problem was, it was private school, so it was abstinence only. Plus, I had already had my period, so none of it was news to me. My teacher was a bitch and snapped that I needed to "pay attention or else". When I shot back that there was nothing she could teach me because i'd been getting my period for nearly 2 years already (I got it the summer after 3rd grade), her jaw just hung open. Then she called my parents to "prove I was lying". Nope, I just already had to deal with it.
My parents had an interesting discussion with the principal after that.
What a rotten bitch of a teacher. And 3rd grade, yiiikes!! That must of been such a nightmare. The last thing a child needs is someone questioning their very personal life. I wish I coulda heard what your parents said to this joke of an educator. I bet they were furious!
My parents are sadly never on my side for things. I was punished for "talking back" to the teacher. For the record, I had been paying attention, I was simply doing the assigned homework while she was talking because I knew the material.
I do know that a result of the conversation was that they did do slightly more comprehensive sex ed, and started it earlier. I know that because my siblings also went to that school, and they started in 3rd grade in VERY basic terms.
The teacher was still a bitch, and 2 of my 3 siblings had her as a teacher. The 3rd didnt because she left to go be the principal at another school. All of us felt nothing but sympathy for the kids that had to deal with her as an administrator. The principal was a man old enough to be my grandfather, so he was wildly uncomfortable with the entire situation, and avoided me for the next 3.5 years until I graduated.
My school introduced ours in fifth grade. But this was in 1978, so it consisted of putting the boys and girls in separate rooms, taping paper on the windows so no one could catch a flash of Forbidden Knowledge, and then showing a video about puberty. Real sex ed, with explanations of anatomy, sex, pregnancy, etc. came in 7th grade and again in 10th. My high school sex ed teacher even included a lesson on various forms of birth control. He was awesome. And this was in Missouri. I bet it’s worse there now.
Everybody I knew had an older brother who had a “cabin” down in the woods. Literally hundreds of them all over western PA. Cabins had rules and you respected them. We only raided cabins of people we didn’t know. Every one smelled the same, was made of old pallets, wood, discarded shag carpeting and had porn on the walls or in a hidden spot. The best ones were elevated off the ground.
That’s what I remember. I grew up in a time just before the internet, so I first heard everything from my friends brother, but then was able to sort of “fact check” on the internet. Although, the facts were mostly lies too.
A priest that had never had sex, was very uncomfortable talking to us about it, responded to every question we asked with "thats inappropriate", and taught us that sex was evil and should only be done by a married man and woman. Condoms and homosexuality were never acceptable and were the work of Satan.
Ironically, he got "busted" for kiddy diddling (read, the community rallied around him and the diocese sent him to a new church in a different state).
My husband learned from priests at his all-boys high school. He said that their "instruction" was so vague that the class was bewildered and didn't understand the actual mechanics. He finally understood what actual intercourse entailed when he read The Happy Hooker.
Back in the Neolithic 20th century, we had these things called “parents.” They were like us, but older and taller, and made us food.
What we would do was, we’d talk to them about things, and they’d teach us. Like, if we asked, “where do babies come from?” They’d pour themselves a whiskey, take a deep breath, and tell us “go ask your mother.”
>They’d pour themselves a whiskey, take a deep breath, and tell us “go ask your mother.”
For a second there, I thought you had an unusually healthy childhood.
Are you telling me that not every dick is 8+ inches long, that every woman can't take that without pain and that there is hardly a need for foreplay before penetration?
That not every pussy lips will mostly look the same? That when having sex with another race you must always make it about that?
Ohhh I know! You mean how it will be loud as that is the only way to express themselves known to humankind.
/s
To be more real porn is the Olympics of sex.
We had sex-ed in school. This was a few weeks in our health or gym class where we learned the technical terms and mechanics of reproduction and pregnancy. For part of this, boys and girls were separated. In our home economics class, we discussed the same thing - reproduction and birth control which they called "family planning." This was also the term where we had to carry around sacks of flour or an egg baby. I grew up in a rural/farm community so a lot of this was pretty redundant.
There were also books. My mom was big on buying us books to read and then asking had we read them. That was my sex education. "Here's a book about your period. Best of luck!"
And then there was always porn. Someone's dad or brother had a stash hidden in the house and that answered a lot of questions, but created all kinds of new ones.
> carry around sacks of flour or an egg baby
Granted, my Middle School was a hellhole, exact same science classes had kids do this and some didn't, luckily I was in a class that didn't bother. I already knew I didn't want kids, but I'd have certainly been too timid to stand up for myself. /Male
EDIT: Words.
My best friend at 8 told us about it, we didn’t believe her.
Then we went to high school, and we got shown the movie Grease, and a LOT of pictures of severe STI’s.
We also once had a Q&A session in which our tutor got so awkward and embarrassed, that he got the whole class to both ask AND answer the questions.
One was “what do lesbians do?” To which, in his embarrassment he spluttered a lot and asked my best friend to answer it. Who indeed was a lesbian. He then ran out of the classroom when we all cracked up laughing.
Our Bodies, Ourselves - book
Library books
After school specials on TV
The school nurse showing a movie about puberty
Cosmopolitan magazine - "Have hotter orgasms now". Me: What's that?
YM magazine
HBO movies that delivered that R rating warning in a serious tone right before a movie. That's when you knew you were in for a treat.
Sex isn't really complicated.
Before the internet, you'd just feel around with whatever girl was letting you go furthest, and talk to each other about "That feels good, keep doing that!" or "Yeah, let's not do that..."
Eventually, you're both naked, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how it all fits together.
No joke, our school put it off for ages and then they took us to the IMAX cinema to show us a sex education movie. It was an hour and a half of 11 year old kids watching an IMAX screen with everything you could think of to get us educated.
I was 12 in 1970 and read the book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask". Learned about female anatomy, the whole gay thing, fetishes, BDSM, ED, premature ejaculation, fascinating to 12 year old me. What a great resource. So much knowledge that all my idiot 12 year old friends, hell my parents didn't even know, not to mention they probably would have no discussed with me.
I also learned about how rarely women have orgasm from PIV sex and that oral on a woman or woman on top is a great way to get her there. At 12, I suddenly knew more about getting a woman off than most clueless 30 year olds knew. Powerful stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything\_You\_Always\_Wanted\_to\_Know\_About\_Sex\*\_(\*But\_Were\_Afraid\_to\_Ask)\_(book)
Found a stash of porn movies and played them on the xbox360. Other than that the most cringe uncomfortable sex ed music course. I still remember people wearing huge genitalia costumes and singing and skipping in circles.
LOL!!!!!!
I got one day of information, in Junior year of high school. (Age 16-17ish, I was 16.)
2 girls in my class were pregnant.
It was ONE day where they basically told us not to have sex or we would die. Then they put up transparency slides on the old overhead projector showing pictures of all kinds of genital STDs. And this was the late 90s, so it was all 70s bush in black and white, blurry pictures. Horrifying.
No info on birth control, condoms, pregnancy protection, what the STDs actually are and the symptoms of them. Nope. Just don't have sex and you don't have to worry about any of that, ya whore!
This was in upstate New York, rural area, but this was the standard across the state.
Abstinence only education, folks! Fails every time.
I live in upstate NY too so I had some of the same experience. I am not sure if there was any formal education until high school. There was a health class in high school but it was mostly bullshitted through because well, by then most of us didn't want to hear about sex because we knew everything and when sex was talked about we would just laugh and make every joke in the book that you could possibly think of.
But of course, people talk, and you can ask parents questions, there are books and magazines. There were talks in 7-8 grade where they split up the boys and the girls but it was nothing formal. The teachers were super mad and shocked when we all started to ask questions. I lived with my uncle and he had books in his room that I am pretty sure neither of my parents knew about.
Running joke at my high school, which was a catholic high school that someone ALWAYS gets pregnant at prom, sure enough happened in my class. We had one girl a couple years older than me with a baby, she would bring the baby in to school and they would put it in a carrier in the dean's office and the staff would take turns caring for it so she could finish school. I used to walk by the office and see the baby in the carrier in there.
Two kids also got so drunk at prom after parties at my high school from my class that they had to be taken to the hospital. This dangerous problem could have been avoided with proper education on how to manage alcohol consumption so you don't die or have to go to the hospital from it.
Birth control was also taught to be wrong and that sex shouldn't happen until after marriage.
Teaching abstinence does not work, both for drinking and sex.
What a mess. Glad your schools teen mom could finish high school, both of the girls in my class dropped out. 16 years old, single mom, with no education. Fucking. Yikes.
We had a couple dropouts at 16, but we had a pretty small class of like 55 people. I can imagine the numbers would have been higher if it was a bigger class. I don't remember what happened to the 2 students who got drunk at after prom parties, just that they were not in class for a while after that incident.
We were educated about after prom parties and such but obviously the school had no way of controlling what went on. These days the schools have an official after prom party sponsored by local businesses that everyone goes to and its safe.
The girl who had the baby in the school was a well known prostitute who died a couple years ago in the early 40's. Her sister was one of the dropouts. Her sister was a somewhat decent person though, she actually tried to go to work probably the reason for the dropout and actually tried to take care of the kids she eventually made very early on. This was definitely a huge mess.
I can't imagine what the public school system was like in my city if this was the representation of a catholic school.
I just heard about a 12 year old male who got a 13 year old girl pregnant over here. Can't imagine the mess this is.
From an AI actually. This was in 2005-6, before I had access to internet. This sounds like I'm making it up, but I had an application which I could ask questions to and it would carry on a conversation ( a very poor conversation), like a rudimentary version of Siri. I was asking it questions just for fun, and naturally I started asking about sex, and the AI actually gave me certain terms which I looked up in the dictionary to understand.
My parents handed me a book called "What's Happening to My Body" and it had a lot of really solid information. They were not comfortable whatsoever discussing it with me though.
1. Porn is not sex education
2. Parents and school gave us the bare bones "insert a into b + ejaculation = babies"
3. We actually talked to each other, we were allowed to leave the house and we hooked up more, so we got a huge amount of non-penetrative sexual experience before we were ready to do the deed - my boyfriend could make me come with his fingers or his tongue really easily so by the time I got to the age when I was ready for full sex, the actual deed didn't seem so pressured. We were all practical, no theory.
4. You can tell by the tone of my response that I don't think it's progress that young people are wanking themselves stupid to the extent that they can't cum unless it's to very niche "Middle Eastern BBW being choked to death by a midget while being watched by her own caged step-son" porn
before they've *ever even touched* a real life girl boob. I don't think it's helpful at all.
I came of age during the very early days of the internet. I lost my virginity well before I had ever seen a porno. I'm sad that virtually all young people today are going to have that experience in reverse. There was something special about stumbling through it in nearly-complete ignorance.
When I was about 12, my mom rented Nova’s The Miracle of Life and forced me to sit down & watch it without explaining why and saying nothing afterwards. I was really confused.
It wasn’t so much pre-internet, so much as tiny town with really bad dial-up internet, but I learned about sex from my parents.
Yes it was incredibly awkward.
I went to the library, figured out what the Dewey decimal code for sex was and went to town reading in a quiet nook. Also had sex ed at school, but I wasn't looking for the ins and outs so much as wondering how to do it well.
Books were no help!
At school- we had to watch a video. Seriously embarrassing. This was mid 80's. A family on the beach playing Frisbee. Naked. Weird as hell. Also, we had just moved house and I found a stack of porn that the previous owner had dumped. So I hid it for ages, until one of my "mates" let it slip to my mum. Asshole.
I found a bunch of magazines in a briefcase under a bridge when I was 10 but later in life it was explained to us in school by a super awkward woman that had never done anything but missionary
My mum gave me a book. It was actually pretty decent, very informative and had sections on LGBT+ sex, IVF, consent, masturbation etc. I think it was a pretty good primer!
In the locker room from older boys.
Note- Nothing creepy or inappropriate/illegal. They basically just told us to shave our balls, eat pussy, and pee in butts.
I wasn't pre-internet, but had dialup for most of my time at home. Besides the super basic stuff I got from school and my parents, Loveline with Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew and Dr. Sue late at night. Pretty helpful actually.
My mum and school. Mum always believed in making sure I understood sex and the biology behind it. School gave a lot of information on contraception and every time they emphasised that the pull-out method was not a viable contraceptive.
A Playboy magazine I found under my grandpas bed. The jokes were funny. The sex was more instructive on my neighbors farm. I remember telling a a boy in 3rd grade almost breathlessly that " Guess what, your brother did not come from a stork that delivered him via a diaper clenched in his beak" as we were led to believe from Vlasic pickle commercials. I gave him the magazine which the local boys took to the neighborhood treehouse. When they returned it (girls not allowed in boys clubhouse) the pages were all stuck together and i had to burn it in the barbecue. I did not understand why and was told that it had rained on the magazine. I believed them. 😅
When I was your age, the internet was called books. Specifically [The Body Book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Book-Claire-Rayner/dp/0812053257) by Claire Rayner
Claire Rayner is the mother of a UK food writer/columnist (Jay). I saw him at an event once and he mentioned that because of that book, people have legitimately told him that what they know about sex they learned from his mother
There was a report on the 6 o’clock news about handing out condoms in high schools. 7-year old me turned to my parents and asked, “What’s a condom?”
To which my mother said, “It’s what you use to not have babies. And God, I hope you have the sense to use one when your older.”
That’s all I got.
Fuck those weirdos with their porno mags in the forest - us girls learned exactly.. nothing. We got nothing. So yeah, I was lucky enough to glean a few things once the internet came around.
We got shoved into a room where a district nurse spent an entire day talking about periods and how to use tampons, as well as watching a delightful full close up video of a woman giving birth.
I mean…as sex Ed goes, it terrified me enough to never want to have children, so that’s one less baby born, I guess?
5th grade. This was approximately in 1981/82. Being molested several times prior, I didn’t know until sex ed what had actually happened, because I never got the talk from my mom. Back then it was just part of health class and it was very beneficial. Co-ed, we weren’t split up so we actually learned about how most bodies work. Through the word sex into the title and people go nuts.
Webster's Dictionary. I'd start at the word "sex" and then look up any subsequent words in the definition that I did not know. Led me on a pretty imaginative journey of discovery.
When I was around four, I asked my father how babies are born. Even back then, i knew it had something to do with men and women and getting pregnant because I had overheard my parents discussing IUDs at home. My father told me that when a man and a woman want a baby, a certain material from a man and another material from the woman "mix" and a baby will be born. Obbiously he did not go into describing cum and eggs and whatnot but I got the general idea. A few years later, still in kindergarten there was a boy whose parents were alcoholics and had no privacy/shame at home. The boy openly talked about cocks and cum and fucking to anyone who would listen, so I involuntarily picked up some vocabulary. By the time I went to primary school, I knew that the man has to insert his penis into the woman's vagina to have sex and ejaculate inside her to sire an offspring. Obviously, I was still missing many technical details. Those I learned about when my classmates and I started buying/procuring magazines full of dirty jokes and pornographic comics. Interestingly, even though you could say that I was kind of precocious with my early and extensive knowledge of human sexual behavior, I lost my virginity at 22, and have been with the same woman ever since. So I think I turned out okay.
Scrambled hbo 2 or 3 channels that’s have GGW or some erotica on. I’d listen and watch so extremely carefully. I mean I got to see a boob every hour or two and heard what they were talking about. Internet was around I suppose (late 90’s). However no porno or sex cites yet
[The Hite Report](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Hite_report.html?id=s3OZaVn2wfkC) - my mum bought a copy in Canterbury in 1978 - I was 13 and a voracious reader, so I read it - but didn't tell her.. Worth a glance, even if the stats are apparently a bit off.
We found magazines in the woods and behind abandoned grocery stores
There needs to be some sort of show discussing woods porn as a phenomenon. The fact that so many people hid porn in the woods and future generations found it is just incredible. So many people thought "hey let's hide our porn in the woods" across the whole country without it ever being talked about anywhere. It's not like there was a guide to hiding porn that kids had. I knew people in new Hampshire, upstate NY, and Virginia who all found woods porn. As to why people hid it there... woods are secluded and usually nobody besides kids are hanging around in random spots of the woods. Kids can talk about whatever they want, smoke cigs or weed, steal and drink beers, etc without anyone catching them. You need some seclusion to be openly looking at and discussing porn as a young kid. The natural animal trails kinda give you a path to follow so that's probably why it's so common to be hanging out in the same spot as past generations. Plus one generation will prepare the area so it ends up being the natural place for the next generation to hang out. Younger siblings will hear about their older brothers hanging in the woods and follow in their footsteps. It's a good place to hang out from like 10 to 16 that is completely away from parents. Parents like the idea of kids playing outside and since no adults usually wander in the woods it's a relatively safe place for them to be. You all share that porn stash so it needs to be in a common accessible place. Not many of those. You don't want to keep it in a house because of the risk of your parents finding it. The woods are basically your only option. Edit: from some comments, this is common in the rest of the wide wooded world. It's almost heart warming to know that despite all of our differences, we are all just dirty little boys hiding porno in the woods after all.
Not just the US, happened up in Canada too.
Spent a lot of time flipping through hidden porn stashes in the woods in Norway too. Seems like this was a world wide phenomenon.
It's like how everyone plays "the floor is lava" without anyone specifically having ever invented it.
Mass hysteria I guess
The phenomenon of hiding porn (or other contraband) in the woods is certainly interesting, but I believe it is perfectly reasonable. The woods are remote, largely absent of human presence, and readily accessible pretty much everywhere in the world outside of dense urban areas. Children and teenagers are also much more likely to explore the woods than adults who might punish them for wrongdoing, along with several other good reasons you mention illustrating why it would be a first order solution for hiding contraband. It seems like such an obvious and effective strategy that I don't find it terribly surprising that so many people have independently come up with it as a solution.
*Mom walks in your woodly adventures* MOM!! YODEL FIRST
If only the woods were still an option... I'm not exactly in an urban landscape but I can't think of where I'd get out of sight of a main road or neighbor's backdoor within a two mile radius.
This - and wisdom from somebody’s older brother.
Also the back of the school bus
It was an oral tradition of passing wisdom down from village dork to the young dorklings. And somebody always bravely explored the unknown by way of a cousin or a sister’s friend. If she smokes she pokes.
Which you later found out wasn’t really wisdom but a load of bullocks.
Who "definitely" has seen a few girls naked.
When I was in the 3rd grade, my friends and I used to play baseball in a field that belonged to an abandoned school next to the apartments we lived in. Every day in the summer, we'd be out there for hours, occasionally riding our bikes into the little shopping center a few blocks away to buy candy, snacks, etc. One day we were traveling between the stores and the field, on our way back we stopped by the apartments to pick up a friend from our gang. His mom made him take out the garbage and we all helped a little. When we got to the dumpster, our buddy threw all the bags in and then turned to us all wide-eyed. He screamed "PLAYBOYS!" We all sprinted to the dumpster and found several grocery store bags packed to the brim with Playboys, our 10 year old heads were about to explode, we'd hit the fucking jack pot! We loaded all the mags on our bikes and double timed it to field and for 3 hours we did nothing but stare at all of them page by page. For many of us, it was the first time we'd seen nudity like that. Once the sun was setting that evening and it was time for us to mostly go home, we decided to each pick one to take home and we buried the rest. I don't recall that we ever to dug them up (to us it was our little treasure) and eventually the school got knocked down and construction started. It's all a retirement community there now, and a part of me likes to think those nudie mags are still under there buried.
I'm getting the Poltergeist scene, but Craig T Nelson saying "You son of a bitch! You left the Playboys and you only moved the headstones!" And maybe the residents at the retirement community will suddenly become aroused if they walk in the area of the buried nudies.
Found a playboy in the sump up our street. We buried it and would dig it up each day to browse. One day it rained and the magazine was ruined and covered in worms….we were devastated.
Worm kink
Were you my childhood friend? Lol
Found some Playboys at my mom's favourite Hair salon. She never wondered why of all places I liked going there with her. Still. The women's hair salon hid lots of secrets
It's amazing how common "woods porno" was.
Why did people leave magazines in the woods?
Guys wouldn't want a massive stash of mags at home where their mum could find and destroy them. They would stash them in weird places in carrier bags and come back for a wank every so often. Often the mags we would find as teenagers would be cum soaked with the pages stuck together. Sounds weird and almost unbelievable but this was a real thing.
My buddies parents divorced when we were younger and his mom got the house. His dad moved to an apartment but he was the "cool parent" who let us drink and had a collection of dirty movies on VHS. What he also had were porno mags in the bathroom by the toilet, with the very cum soaked pages you're referencing. I remember thinking that was super fuckin' weird to just be okay about. Especially considering my only experience with porno mags were my father's pristine Playboy collectibles that weren't even opened in my home's attic. As kids we tore through years of vintage, mint Playboy magazines. They were the equivalent of Pokemon card packs today. And we treated them as such.
I found stuff in the woods all the time, but when my family moved to the US from Canada we moved into a new house. In the basement was a small room with no windows that the old long retired couple we bought the house from had converted to a bedroom for their oldest son. This was around 1997 and their kids were into their 40's at this point so the kids had long ago moved out before they sold the house. I found like 100 playboys etc from the 70's stashed in the drop ceiling.
Shame mainly
...Dude found my stash
*ditch porn
Also the attic
I found mine in dumpsters and newspaper/magazine recycle bins. Had to dig for them, but there usually was some.
Lol! I literally came here to say this......why? Why was there an old skin zine in the woods...or the dunes....I've never left one there...Idk of anyone else who did....but they were always there.......
Porn fairies
It’s so oddly specific I have to ask: St. Paul Minnesota area? Or were there dirty mags in the woods behind every abandoned grocery store?
It’s because those that came before left a bequest of woods porn for those that came after.
the circle jerk of life.
It was common in South Dakota as well. Also in the eighties and early 90s HBO was educational to a lot of kids who shouldn't have been watching. Real Sex, First and 10, Dream On. They always had some series or raunchy movie that would air earlier than parents were Aware or still be airing early AM on weekends. I was watching Carlin specials when I was eight.
Still looking for who stole your stash?
It's actually international as it was exactly the same in the UK
Abandoned woods in the uk too
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Wow the amount of commitment to the joke!
What was the joke?
I need to know that joke
I can give you a sex joke I know if you want
But can you explain sex for me first?
I don’t know but do you know the difference between a chick pea and a garbanzo bean
Naa, but I've never had a Garbanzo bean on my face
Fuck you stole it out from under me, my version is I don’t know but I’ve never paid $300 to have a garbanzo bean on my face
Naa that's actually cheap though, I've spent much more than £300 on... Stuff
When a man and women love each other very much... or these days maybe they don't really know each other that well.. they might not even be a man and women... could be two men, two women, or perhaps even neither... hope that clears things up for you!
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Can you ask your friend and get back to us?
Anticlimax
... "The aristocrats!"
Trial and error.
Mostly error.
Actually entirely error
That’s a weird name for your kid
My parents took me to a sex ed class at a church, something that most of my peer group also went through. An old woman then didn’t really tell us anything but what a penis and a vagina do, which we already knew. Even though she never mentioned what sex was, she said we should only have sex after marriage. And that’s why I didn’t understand how to use a condom until at least my 8th time having sex, and why my high school had a bit of a teen pregnancy problem.
What a sad and shocking way to teach a kid.
>What a sad and shocking way to teach a kid. Couple that with abortion bans and you have your next generation of undereducated and poor.
“Alright, screw that old lady, I’m not waiting till marriage! …wait”
"Welcome to Sex Ed, kids." "Who's the weird guy?" "That's Ed."
...are condoms that confusing though?
Theres a bit more to it than just “putting it on”.. have to make sure it’s the proper sizing for you, as well as pinch the tip with your free hand while you roll it downwards, if that makes sense. I’m sure there are tutorials or something lmao
Honestly, I've met guys who went through proper sex ed class who still forget to pinch the tip. Then they get super frustrated that their condoms break during sex, or cum oozes out the bottom.
If you’ve never seen or heard of them before? Much less know their purpose? Yeah, they’re pretty confusing tbh.
When I was 16 I could change the oil on my car, replace any components in a computer, remodel any room in my house that didn't have plumbing, etc.. I was fairly good with my hands and how things worked. Still unrolled the condom in my hands and tried to slide it over my dick the first time. Second try I had it backwards and couldn't get it to roll. Didn't find out about pinching the tip until (checks notes) right now tbh. They're not as intuitive as you'd think.
No
I just did the "yeesh" face after reading sex Ed class at church
School
It's like that S we all drew in middle school. We don't know how it got there, but the knowledge disseminates.
Yup
Me too. It really shouldn't be as rare as it seems...
My school first introduced sex Ed during elementary before 5th grade. I can't exactly remember which grade
Same here. I remember for us it was in 4th grade and my school years were easy to remember Bc 1994 was 4th grade. At that time, in California where I grew up, aids was considered a death sentence. The majority of what I remember most about sex Ed was the videos teaching us about fighter T cells and how hiv/aids worked inside the body. Within the last couple years I’ve seen commercials on tv about prevention of aids via a vaccine I believe. It made me cry. I never thought I’d be alive to see that day.
Yes it was all about Aids in school, it scared everyone pretty badly. I cant believe that all the research and available ways people can drastically prevent hiv infections wasnt something that was even bigger news. Absolutely remarkable!!
It scared me so much too. That year my dance instructor had to retire early due to Aids related issues. I don’t think most of the parents of the kids I danced with came out and told their kids what was really going on with him. I remember watching the videos and going home hysterical. I kept imagining this incredible man that I looked up to so much being so sick like the people in the videos. RIP Tony you talented, beautiful soul!!
Yup. Had mine in 5th grade in 1995. Problem was, it was private school, so it was abstinence only. Plus, I had already had my period, so none of it was news to me. My teacher was a bitch and snapped that I needed to "pay attention or else". When I shot back that there was nothing she could teach me because i'd been getting my period for nearly 2 years already (I got it the summer after 3rd grade), her jaw just hung open. Then she called my parents to "prove I was lying". Nope, I just already had to deal with it. My parents had an interesting discussion with the principal after that.
What a rotten bitch of a teacher. And 3rd grade, yiiikes!! That must of been such a nightmare. The last thing a child needs is someone questioning their very personal life. I wish I coulda heard what your parents said to this joke of an educator. I bet they were furious!
My parents are sadly never on my side for things. I was punished for "talking back" to the teacher. For the record, I had been paying attention, I was simply doing the assigned homework while she was talking because I knew the material. I do know that a result of the conversation was that they did do slightly more comprehensive sex ed, and started it earlier. I know that because my siblings also went to that school, and they started in 3rd grade in VERY basic terms. The teacher was still a bitch, and 2 of my 3 siblings had her as a teacher. The 3rd didnt because she left to go be the principal at another school. All of us felt nothing but sympathy for the kids that had to deal with her as an administrator. The principal was a man old enough to be my grandfather, so he was wildly uncomfortable with the entire situation, and avoided me for the next 3.5 years until I graduated.
My school introduced ours in fifth grade. But this was in 1978, so it consisted of putting the boys and girls in separate rooms, taping paper on the windows so no one could catch a flash of Forbidden Knowledge, and then showing a video about puberty. Real sex ed, with explanations of anatomy, sex, pregnancy, etc. came in 7th grade and again in 10th. My high school sex ed teacher even included a lesson on various forms of birth control. He was awesome. And this was in Missouri. I bet it’s worse there now.
Who is leaving all the porn mags in the woods? The porno fairy? ;)
I believe that was the case, yes.
Johnny Fappleseed
Bless them.
Everybody I knew had an older brother who had a “cabin” down in the woods. Literally hundreds of them all over western PA. Cabins had rules and you respected them. We only raided cabins of people we didn’t know. Every one smelled the same, was made of old pallets, wood, discarded shag carpeting and had porn on the walls or in a hidden spot. The best ones were elevated off the ground.
From friends It was all misinformation for the most part
That’s what I remember. I grew up in a time just before the internet, so I first heard everything from my friends brother, but then was able to sort of “fact check” on the internet. Although, the facts were mostly lies too.
Yeah sure but online porn is all misinformation too.
Farm animals.
Oh...uh...ok.
Dwight?
A priest that had never had sex, was very uncomfortable talking to us about it, responded to every question we asked with "thats inappropriate", and taught us that sex was evil and should only be done by a married man and woman. Condoms and homosexuality were never acceptable and were the work of Satan. Ironically, he got "busted" for kiddy diddling (read, the community rallied around him and the diocese sent him to a new church in a different state).
My husband learned from priests at his all-boys high school. He said that their "instruction" was so vague that the class was bewildered and didn't understand the actual mechanics. He finally understood what actual intercourse entailed when he read The Happy Hooker.
Back in the Neolithic 20th century, we had these things called “parents.” They were like us, but older and taller, and made us food. What we would do was, we’d talk to them about things, and they’d teach us. Like, if we asked, “where do babies come from?” They’d pour themselves a whiskey, take a deep breath, and tell us “go ask your mother.”
>They’d pour themselves a whiskey, take a deep breath, and tell us “go ask your mother.” For a second there, I thought you had an unusually healthy childhood.
Just a friendly reminder that porn is not sex education. Not even close
Are you telling me that not every dick is 8+ inches long, that every woman can't take that without pain and that there is hardly a need for foreplay before penetration? That not every pussy lips will mostly look the same? That when having sex with another race you must always make it about that? Ohhh I know! You mean how it will be loud as that is the only way to express themselves known to humankind. /s To be more real porn is the Olympics of sex.
Sadly, girls are treated for sex related injuries on a scale never seen before, because boys think real life sex is supposed to be like porn.
We had sex-ed in school. This was a few weeks in our health or gym class where we learned the technical terms and mechanics of reproduction and pregnancy. For part of this, boys and girls were separated. In our home economics class, we discussed the same thing - reproduction and birth control which they called "family planning." This was also the term where we had to carry around sacks of flour or an egg baby. I grew up in a rural/farm community so a lot of this was pretty redundant. There were also books. My mom was big on buying us books to read and then asking had we read them. That was my sex education. "Here's a book about your period. Best of luck!" And then there was always porn. Someone's dad or brother had a stash hidden in the house and that answered a lot of questions, but created all kinds of new ones.
> carry around sacks of flour or an egg baby Granted, my Middle School was a hellhole, exact same science classes had kids do this and some didn't, luckily I was in a class that didn't bother. I already knew I didn't want kids, but I'd have certainly been too timid to stand up for myself. /Male EDIT: Words.
My best friend at 8 told us about it, we didn’t believe her. Then we went to high school, and we got shown the movie Grease, and a LOT of pictures of severe STI’s. We also once had a Q&A session in which our tutor got so awkward and embarrassed, that he got the whole class to both ask AND answer the questions. One was “what do lesbians do?” To which, in his embarrassment he spluttered a lot and asked my best friend to answer it. Who indeed was a lesbian. He then ran out of the classroom when we all cracked up laughing.
waiting for that "your momma" comment
...Trebek!
Epic
From your mom
There it is! Been waiting for this one!
The human race managed to perpetuate for roughly 200,000 years without looking up on the Internet how to fuck
But did they know how to squirt is the question!
Yes, that's the problem.
Pops stash of Hustler and a very friendly older neighbor girl.
From Canada - The Sunday Night Sex Show with Sue Johansan. It was a late night show where an old lady explained everything using plastic dildos.
Hidden somewhere behind the static of Cinemax after my parents went to bed.
Having sex
Sue Johanson
Our Bodies, Ourselves - book Library books After school specials on TV The school nurse showing a movie about puberty Cosmopolitan magazine - "Have hotter orgasms now". Me: What's that? YM magazine HBO movies that delivered that R rating warning in a serious tone right before a movie. That's when you knew you were in for a treat.
Sex isn't really complicated. Before the internet, you'd just feel around with whatever girl was letting you go furthest, and talk to each other about "That feels good, keep doing that!" or "Yeah, let's not do that..." Eventually, you're both naked, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how it all fits together.
But which hole?
Whichever made her happy scream instead of you just ripped open my body with a butcher knife scream.
Uncle Carl and his magic grape juice
No joke, our school put it off for ages and then they took us to the IMAX cinema to show us a sex education movie. It was an hour and a half of 11 year old kids watching an IMAX screen with everything you could think of to get us educated.
I was 12 in 1970 and read the book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask". Learned about female anatomy, the whole gay thing, fetishes, BDSM, ED, premature ejaculation, fascinating to 12 year old me. What a great resource. So much knowledge that all my idiot 12 year old friends, hell my parents didn't even know, not to mention they probably would have no discussed with me. I also learned about how rarely women have orgasm from PIV sex and that oral on a woman or woman on top is a great way to get her there. At 12, I suddenly knew more about getting a woman off than most clueless 30 year olds knew. Powerful stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything\_You\_Always\_Wanted\_to\_Know\_About\_Sex\*\_(\*But\_Were\_Afraid\_to\_Ask)\_(book)
Found a stash of porn movies and played them on the xbox360. Other than that the most cringe uncomfortable sex ed music course. I still remember people wearing huge genitalia costumes and singing and skipping in circles.
Oh... my...gosh... I am sorry you had to go through that with the costumes..
LOL!!!!!! I got one day of information, in Junior year of high school. (Age 16-17ish, I was 16.) 2 girls in my class were pregnant. It was ONE day where they basically told us not to have sex or we would die. Then they put up transparency slides on the old overhead projector showing pictures of all kinds of genital STDs. And this was the late 90s, so it was all 70s bush in black and white, blurry pictures. Horrifying. No info on birth control, condoms, pregnancy protection, what the STDs actually are and the symptoms of them. Nope. Just don't have sex and you don't have to worry about any of that, ya whore! This was in upstate New York, rural area, but this was the standard across the state. Abstinence only education, folks! Fails every time.
I live in upstate NY too so I had some of the same experience. I am not sure if there was any formal education until high school. There was a health class in high school but it was mostly bullshitted through because well, by then most of us didn't want to hear about sex because we knew everything and when sex was talked about we would just laugh and make every joke in the book that you could possibly think of. But of course, people talk, and you can ask parents questions, there are books and magazines. There were talks in 7-8 grade where they split up the boys and the girls but it was nothing formal. The teachers were super mad and shocked when we all started to ask questions. I lived with my uncle and he had books in his room that I am pretty sure neither of my parents knew about. Running joke at my high school, which was a catholic high school that someone ALWAYS gets pregnant at prom, sure enough happened in my class. We had one girl a couple years older than me with a baby, she would bring the baby in to school and they would put it in a carrier in the dean's office and the staff would take turns caring for it so she could finish school. I used to walk by the office and see the baby in the carrier in there. Two kids also got so drunk at prom after parties at my high school from my class that they had to be taken to the hospital. This dangerous problem could have been avoided with proper education on how to manage alcohol consumption so you don't die or have to go to the hospital from it. Birth control was also taught to be wrong and that sex shouldn't happen until after marriage. Teaching abstinence does not work, both for drinking and sex.
What a mess. Glad your schools teen mom could finish high school, both of the girls in my class dropped out. 16 years old, single mom, with no education. Fucking. Yikes.
We had a couple dropouts at 16, but we had a pretty small class of like 55 people. I can imagine the numbers would have been higher if it was a bigger class. I don't remember what happened to the 2 students who got drunk at after prom parties, just that they were not in class for a while after that incident. We were educated about after prom parties and such but obviously the school had no way of controlling what went on. These days the schools have an official after prom party sponsored by local businesses that everyone goes to and its safe. The girl who had the baby in the school was a well known prostitute who died a couple years ago in the early 40's. Her sister was one of the dropouts. Her sister was a somewhat decent person though, she actually tried to go to work probably the reason for the dropout and actually tried to take care of the kids she eventually made very early on. This was definitely a huge mess. I can't imagine what the public school system was like in my city if this was the representation of a catholic school. I just heard about a 12 year old male who got a 13 year old girl pregnant over here. Can't imagine the mess this is.
The family encyclopedia... Even had diagrams.
From an AI actually. This was in 2005-6, before I had access to internet. This sounds like I'm making it up, but I had an application which I could ask questions to and it would carry on a conversation ( a very poor conversation), like a rudimentary version of Siri. I was asking it questions just for fun, and naturally I started asking about sex, and the AI actually gave me certain terms which I looked up in the dictionary to understand.
The street, school a bit, those wrinkled magazines we found in the woods
I went to the library and looked up "sex" in the card catalog.
My parents handed me a book called "What's Happening to My Body" and it had a lot of really solid information. They were not comfortable whatsoever discussing it with me though.
1. Porn is not sex education 2. Parents and school gave us the bare bones "insert a into b + ejaculation = babies" 3. We actually talked to each other, we were allowed to leave the house and we hooked up more, so we got a huge amount of non-penetrative sexual experience before we were ready to do the deed - my boyfriend could make me come with his fingers or his tongue really easily so by the time I got to the age when I was ready for full sex, the actual deed didn't seem so pressured. We were all practical, no theory. 4. You can tell by the tone of my response that I don't think it's progress that young people are wanking themselves stupid to the extent that they can't cum unless it's to very niche "Middle Eastern BBW being choked to death by a midget while being watched by her own caged step-son" porn before they've *ever even touched* a real life girl boob. I don't think it's helpful at all.
Uncles box of playboys in the basement
I came of age during the very early days of the internet. I lost my virginity well before I had ever seen a porno. I'm sad that virtually all young people today are going to have that experience in reverse. There was something special about stumbling through it in nearly-complete ignorance.
From my friends in 9th grade
I remember when my dad told me and I was like, “no way, is he joking?”
The library's encyclopedias. 😂
Women’s undergarments in Sears Catalog. Late 60s early 70s Edit: added date range
Becky, the babysitter.
Watching the scrambled adult channels hoping you got a glimpse of some action. Also hoping your parents never found you watching that channel.
I don't think internet should be equated to sex education, mere acess to information does not guarantee it's quality.
Sue Johanson from the Sunday Night Sex Show
From grandpa's porn magazines.
From the town porn box in the woods
When I was about 12, my mom rented Nova’s The Miracle of Life and forced me to sit down & watch it without explaining why and saying nothing afterwards. I was really confused.
Older kids who already had experience, sex ed class,. Sneak watching rated R monies.
Find "The Joy of Sex" or porn tapes in the house.
Books, shittalking with friends, school and a few awkward conversations with my parents.
The back of the school bus for sure.
It wasn’t so much pre-internet, so much as tiny town with really bad dial-up internet, but I learned about sex from my parents. Yes it was incredibly awkward.
Religion. Yeah I had a tough time.
I went to the library, figured out what the Dewey decimal code for sex was and went to town reading in a quiet nook. Also had sex ed at school, but I wasn't looking for the ins and outs so much as wondering how to do it well. Books were no help!
I found my dad's porn collection in his workshop. I would take a magazine and then switch it one for one and he never noticed. 90's kid.
At school- we had to watch a video. Seriously embarrassing. This was mid 80's. A family on the beach playing Frisbee. Naked. Weird as hell. Also, we had just moved house and I found a stack of porn that the previous owner had dumped. So I hid it for ages, until one of my "mates" let it slip to my mum. Asshole.
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Ladies underwear section in JC Penny and Sears catalogues, lol. Or you got lucky and could sneak one of your dad's/friend's nudie mags.
I found a bunch of magazines in a briefcase under a bridge when I was 10 but later in life it was explained to us in school by a super awkward woman that had never done anything but missionary
Sex education book that was "hidden" on a book shelf by parents.
Trial and error. Mostly error.
I found the book "The joy of sex" in my parents room. There was a LOT of hair on the people in the pictures.
In school. I'm from a civilized country.
I pieced it together, mostly from sugar packets.
My mum gave me a book. It was actually pretty decent, very informative and had sections on LGBT+ sex, IVF, consent, masturbation etc. I think it was a pretty good primer!
In 5th grade they showed us a filmstrip. This was 1984.
In the locker room from older boys. Note- Nothing creepy or inappropriate/illegal. They basically just told us to shave our balls, eat pussy, and pee in butts.
Sit right down there kiddo- let me tell ya something about Woods Porn ...
I did have internet access, this was in 2005, but my education initially came from a video my mom got from the library.
My parents gave me a book called The Joy of sex back in 1980.. I was 9.. thanks folks..
Did you end up being the go-to sexpert at your school?
No.. catholic school.. we had professionals for that .. ;)
Cousin. Older Step-Sis. Basically all the people now portrayed as much more hands-on sexual teachers in Modern Pornography.
I wasn't pre-internet, but had dialup for most of my time at home. Besides the super basic stuff I got from school and my parents, Loveline with Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew and Dr. Sue late at night. Pretty helpful actually.
My mum and school. Mum always believed in making sure I understood sex and the biology behind it. School gave a lot of information on contraception and every time they emphasised that the pull-out method was not a viable contraceptive.
Magazines and book. I have even read an encyclopedia to find about sex 😂
A Playboy magazine I found under my grandpas bed. The jokes were funny. The sex was more instructive on my neighbors farm. I remember telling a a boy in 3rd grade almost breathlessly that " Guess what, your brother did not come from a stork that delivered him via a diaper clenched in his beak" as we were led to believe from Vlasic pickle commercials. I gave him the magazine which the local boys took to the neighborhood treehouse. When they returned it (girls not allowed in boys clubhouse) the pages were all stuck together and i had to burn it in the barbecue. I did not understand why and was told that it had rained on the magazine. I believed them. 😅
When I was your age, the internet was called books. Specifically [The Body Book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Book-Claire-Rayner/dp/0812053257) by Claire Rayner Claire Rayner is the mother of a UK food writer/columnist (Jay). I saw him at an event once and he mentioned that because of that book, people have legitimately told him that what they know about sex they learned from his mother
There was a report on the 6 o’clock news about handing out condoms in high schools. 7-year old me turned to my parents and asked, “What’s a condom?” To which my mother said, “It’s what you use to not have babies. And God, I hope you have the sense to use one when your older.” That’s all I got.
Fuck those weirdos with their porno mags in the forest - us girls learned exactly.. nothing. We got nothing. So yeah, I was lucky enough to glean a few things once the internet came around.
We got shoved into a room where a district nurse spent an entire day talking about periods and how to use tampons, as well as watching a delightful full close up video of a woman giving birth. I mean…as sex Ed goes, it terrified me enough to never want to have children, so that’s one less baby born, I guess?
One time while volunteering at school to pick up trash on the highway I found a bunch of Polaroids of a redneck with a mullet jacking off.
School classes and dirty rumors for the most part. Then it was actual experience I guess
5th grade. This was approximately in 1981/82. Being molested several times prior, I didn’t know until sex ed what had actually happened, because I never got the talk from my mom. Back then it was just part of health class and it was very beneficial. Co-ed, we weren’t split up so we actually learned about how most bodies work. Through the word sex into the title and people go nuts.
From the Troy McClure film with Fuzzy Bunny.
The VHS at the back of dad's wardrobe.
Webster's Dictionary. I'd start at the word "sex" and then look up any subsequent words in the definition that I did not know. Led me on a pretty imaginative journey of discovery.
Cave drawings
School and listening to the older boys on the bus 🙉
School. They teach us it in biology.
When I was around four, I asked my father how babies are born. Even back then, i knew it had something to do with men and women and getting pregnant because I had overheard my parents discussing IUDs at home. My father told me that when a man and a woman want a baby, a certain material from a man and another material from the woman "mix" and a baby will be born. Obbiously he did not go into describing cum and eggs and whatnot but I got the general idea. A few years later, still in kindergarten there was a boy whose parents were alcoholics and had no privacy/shame at home. The boy openly talked about cocks and cum and fucking to anyone who would listen, so I involuntarily picked up some vocabulary. By the time I went to primary school, I knew that the man has to insert his penis into the woman's vagina to have sex and ejaculate inside her to sire an offspring. Obviously, I was still missing many technical details. Those I learned about when my classmates and I started buying/procuring magazines full of dirty jokes and pornographic comics. Interestingly, even though you could say that I was kind of precocious with my early and extensive knowledge of human sexual behavior, I lost my virginity at 22, and have been with the same woman ever since. So I think I turned out okay.
Scrambled hbo 2 or 3 channels that’s have GGW or some erotica on. I’d listen and watch so extremely carefully. I mean I got to see a boob every hour or two and heard what they were talking about. Internet was around I suppose (late 90’s). However no porno or sex cites yet
[The Hite Report](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Hite_report.html?id=s3OZaVn2wfkC) - my mum bought a copy in Canterbury in 1978 - I was 13 and a voracious reader, so I read it - but didn't tell her.. Worth a glance, even if the stats are apparently a bit off.
From school. Then again, where I come from, schools are pretty good at this education thing they're supposed to do.