A watered down version of the biology part of was discussed from 2nd grade on. My mother had a miscarriage and my father in his wisdom and grief gave us on overview of where babies come from. Then in 5th grade I got the school version of sex ed. At 15 my mother gave the more emotional side of it. The thing is she never told me not to have sex, just make sure I was in love and tell her before hand so I could get birth control.
When you were coming of age, who gave you the talk about sex ? How old were you when you were enlightened?
I was 10 when I heard it from my mom before I heard it in school. She wanted to get a jump-start on it and be the first one to tell me before I heard it in school (5th grade, though the next year in 6th grade we learned a lot more). Of course I had already heard hints of things from my older sisters (awkward). And as I was coming of age, I was also figuring out I was homosexual, so all the talk about girls didn't do a whole lot for me...
I was naive and dumb to most of it. My mom told us that no one should ever touch our private parts (the tell an adult immediately if anyone does touch em molesting talk). I was more of the "put your fingers in your ears and say la la la la la la so you don't hear the you know what words." Most of my actual education came from my husband.
The schoolđđ
My mother decided that 7 years old was the time for this . . . . I can remember because she was driving her Subaru dropping off Newspapers and she just wouldn't shut up . . . .
I remembered thinking "I have no idea what she is even talking about." . . . Like this kid: https://vimeo.com/182409659
Later on, it was High school health class, but by then I had a pretty good idea.
Thanks to the internet, I'd known the basics by 9. And I knew how to hide everything from my non-tech-savvy parents too. Back then, I was just like "gross" and planned on never going anywhere near a boy.
I understand the importance of safe-sex education because unfortunately, not all young kids will go "gross", and with the pressure from society to act grown up, they'll do stupid things if they don't know what's going on.