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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I haven't read the book but I'm interested in Orenstein's points (and have read some shorter pieces which I've discussed with my DH).

My kids are young, 8 (boy) and 5 (girl).  So apart from using anatomically correct language and remaining generally "body positive" we haven't talked about much yet.

I had consensual, caring sex for the first time at age 15 and I actually do wish I'd waited.  I very likely would have had sex with the same boy under similar circumstances so it's not that I have regrets there but rather that I threw myself heart and soul into a very serious relationship when I was in many ways still a child.

[b]And while I would have been mortified had my mom wanted to chat about masturbation, I often longed for an adult who could have helped me navigate the heady waters of love, sex, relationships, self-worth/validation, etc... Even if I can't be that person for my own daughter or son I hope to be having conversations with them about a decade before my mom did so with me[/b]. [/quote]

My mother was generation flower power and longed herself to have those conversations with me and it was awkward, horrific, and unwanted. The only worse thing would have been to witness my parents having sex.

It would have been great to have an aunt or adult figure to talk about those things, but my mother-HELL NO. A mother judges and worries, and no matter how "progressive" she thinks she is that judgment and worry will always come through because she is, your mother after all.[/quote]

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