What is Sex?
“Mom, what is sex?”
My 5 year old said this to me the other day. The question seemingly came out of thin air, as she asked while she was sitting on the couch watching Scooby Doo.
Without thinking, I bravely poked my head out from behind my laptop and had every intention of telling her about the birds and bees. But, when I opened my mouth, all that came out was “well…”, I could feel my face turning red and turned away because I started laughing.
I looked back at her, and she had a straight face waiting for an explanation. I got up and sat with her on the couch and asked “What do you think sex is?”
She explained that sex was when you take off your pants and go over the fence into the bushes. (the bushes are what separates our property from the school yard).
“Hmmm…” I said, ”and then…”
“And then you rub your pee-pees together.” she said flatly.
Nice.
We had a good long, but easy-going discussion about the topic. She was very informative with mis-information her group of friends were talking about. Some of her 5 year old friends were “having sex”… taking turns and deciding who would be the next to “go behind the bushes”.
The discussion brought back memories of myself and the boy across the street from my childhood home being 4 years old. We learned what sex was from his older brother, and watching movies with kissing in them.
We “had sex” up in a tree in his backyard… or I should say, we kissed and played I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours.
Isn’t 5 years old the best age ?
( Originally posted on 9/26/2004 )
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