"You were so confident in your ignorance."

In which we talk about our sexual misconceptions and how much we tried to get Barbies to have sex as kids. Maybe now, as adults, we will succeed.

Sexual Misconceptions References

This is a loose topic, and we talked about everyone's misconceptions, including but not limited to "our friend's" misconceptions...you know, definitely not things that we thought. Definitely not.

We began by discussing words that Sex Positive Families called out on Instagram as being referred to euphemistically because they've been deemed embarrassing by society. Can you say them?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CClXwiTJWCA/

So some of the body part euphemisms we've heard or use/d are

* Frau Garten* Thing* Foot (for penis)* Hotdogs (for penis)* Hamburger (for vagina)* Petunia (for vagina)* Wee Wee

We really don't think/hope that Aunt Petunia was the genesis for Petunia as a euphemism for vagina. Aunt Petunia probably doesn't encourage anyone to think about vaginas... she's having sex with Vernon Dursley so she probably doesn't even want to think about her own vagina.

We've taken a tangent into words that make us uncomfortable. Tangents. It's our thing. (If you will.) You're welcome.

Gina's first story comes from a logic-based line of questioning about how she was related to the men in her family. She asked her mom how she was related to dad, and his parents, and those cousins, and on and on till her mom nodded and smiled and avoided the question.

Kelly wanted to know how babies were made. So her grandparents gave her a pregnancy book. This didn't answer her question. So she asked again and the options were in-vitro fertilization and sex. Her parents had sex. End of talk.

She also had an interesting progression on her understanding of the mechanics of sex. A childhood friend told her sex was the guy putting a thing inside of girl. Kelly confidently denied it and accidentally gaslit her friend, assuring her that it was wrong and didn't happen that way.

She didn't fully understand female anatomy, and definitely didn't understand thrusting. Her best guess was that you just got under the covers and the penis found you like a lamprey.

(Uh, yikes.)

Gina didn't really understand that you moved? You just touched or were near each other? And how was insertion of anything involved?

Sissel is a 13 year old girl and has been giggling this whole time.

Hannah doesn't remember her perceptions of sex, but wonders if because she had an older sister, she was exposed to sex earlier. When she watched Cabaret as a 10 year old she did not understand anything that happened sexually, and it blew her mind when she rewatched it in high school. All the sex she missed!

https://youtu.be/hYZ8cqMLuQg

(Kids don't care about stuff they don't understand, as they don't tend to pay attention to it or perceive it. At least according to Malcolm Gladwell in the Tipping Point and Sesame Street.