Female Anatomy Lesson (some TMI!)

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

I guess I'll be going home and eating beans tonight.

Nice new take for "I'll be in my bunk" I'd say. I might even recycle it.

[Flying Grype]

Lol. My mom's a nurse and my dad's a former Green Beret medic. I knew about sex early as well. Early enough that I don't ever remember getting an actual 'sex talk'.

My mom was just a bit of a hippie, and I was reading when I was three. She got me a copy of "Where Did I Come From?" and I can't remember the first time I read it. I can't remember The Talk either.

Interestingly enough that book DID mention that sex was fun. It said that it was tiring like jumping rope for a long time but that it felt good. On the other hand it didn't go into much detail about the, uh, secondary bits such as clitoris, labia, testicles, etc. I guess they figured those would be confusing when the book is essentially about how babies are made.

[gerund]

<sighs>

Clitoris.
Vulva.
Labia majora.
Labia minora.
Mons venus.
Vaginal vestibule.

What makes me laugh is when they call all of this "the 'gina" or just "my vagina".

There is lots of parts to it, and they all have different names. The vagina is just the bit that men want.

[Mr Hero]

I guess I'll be going home and eating beans tonight.

[Marmalady]

*nods* I remember a friend of mine telling me that when her mother was pregnant with her, right up until she was in labour she had no idea how the baby was going to be born. Apparently she asked the midwife 'How does the baby get out?' and was told 'The same way it got in, my dear!' and when the penny dropped she was all

I never got sat down for a 'sex talk' either. My mum took the view that as and when I asked the questions, she would give me the answers honestly. I knew what was what before I left primary school.

[dragon_wings]

Lol. My mom's a nurse and my dad's a former Green Beret medic. I knew about sex early as well. Early enough that I don't ever remember getting an actual 'sex talk'.

[Seshat]

<giggles>

Who, me?


Ignorance story - I think I may have told this once before.

When my mother was in hospital, in early labour with me, she shared a room with another early-labour mother. The other woman was terrified, and asked Mum where the baby came out. Like, did it come out your mouth, or what?

.....

Mum hit the nurse call button, the Matron (this was late 1960s, they were still called Matrons then) spent quite a bit of time in with the other woman.

And my mother became a serious advocate of sex education in schools. I knew the basics of the anatomical differences between boys and girls from a very young age, could explain the menstrual cycle (roughly, anyway) before I started, and understood the biological consequences of pregnancy before my hips were broad enough to carry a child.

Of course, Mum's program of sex ed missed one key piece of information. I didn't learn that sex is fun until much later.

[dragon_wings]

@ Seshat: sounds like you've had to make this lecture before.

[Seshat]

<sighs>

Clitoris.
Vulva.
Labia majora.
Labia minora.
Mons venus.
Vaginal vestibule.
etc, etc, etc.

No beans involved. Or peas, or little men.

[Slayer]

Just... just... I don't even know what to say.

[Stormraven]

I've heard it called a 'bean', as in 'flicking the bean', but those who said that also knew it was slang.

[MoonCat]

God, just when I think I've heard everything....


I don't know which is worse....bean or the pearl in the clam. I mean, excuse me, CLAM??!!

[dragon_wings]

*giggles madly* Wow. My brain can't wrap itself around that.

[skeptic53]

I had a patient (female) once who called it "the little man in the boat". Another (male) called it "the pearl in the clam".

[Moosenogger]

Why does it not surprise me that the girl who apparently doesn't know anything about the female anatomy is pregnant?

Also, the laundromat is not the best place to argue the finer points of anyone's anatomy, much less the female anatomy.