Reading Eccles Thread Below.....

[gness]

....reminded me....with a smile, of my mother's attempts to make me leave home.....which she eventually achieved....not pregnancy.....but because I dated a Protestant at fifteen.....

However....one of the first.....You'll be out on your ear....threats...came when she dragged me under the statue of the Virgin Mary.....I'd be thirteen or fourteen I think.......(I spent a lot of time under the statue)

Your father found a french letter in our garden this morning......is it anything to do with you?!!!!......(angry face)

Mum....honestly it can't be....you know we don't do French at our school.....

Clout around the ear......and so green was I it was years before I found out what she was on about.....☺☺☺

[Butterbun]

Ah gness, those were the days before sex education in schools. We were all lacking in knowledge.

[gness]

Butterbun.....I had a bonkers mother...and was taught by nuns.....

Can you imagine the sex education I would have had?.....☺☺

[-SharonA-]

I take it you're fully educated now guess!!!

[gness]

I think so, Sharon......but my second introduction to french letters went like this.....

With my best friend walking to our Catholic school....remember contraception was forbidden....

C.....Gness, did you know that men have periods?
G....No!
C....Yes.....I found these "things" in my parent's bedroom cabinet.....I asked my Mum what they were for and she said men have to use them once a month when they have their period.....

Lord I was a confused teenager.....☺☺

[DTCwordfan]

My sister dated one Jean-Claude Condom..... 'Jesus Christ's Flunky' as we called him....then I went out with one Virginie Fouquet )a lovely girl by the way, a blonde, rare for a French gal!

[-SharonA-]

Lol gness.

[Mosaic]

I attended a convent school, where two girls were expelled in the third year for running away from home (!) oh, and having copious sex and not bothering hiding the fact. And my mother would far rather have had her children endure unhappy hasty marriages than be thought of as having had joyous sex outside of marriage. She modelled this for us by having a thoroughly miserable marriage.
I well recall her threatening me with eviction of I ever turned up pregnant, which at the age of 12 was baffling, uncalled for and unlikely.
What a bonkers generation they were, Gness.
Oh and sex education at the convent....well, we did the reproductive system of flowers. End of.
And I recall one girl sitting her A-level exams with an enormous 8-month bump, so she must have picked lots of flowers.

[gness]

Oh lovely, Mosaic....☺...a bouquet of flowers indeed!...☺

Bonkers indeed....my mother and all her siblings were pregnant when they married.....but the look on my mother's face if anyone she knew did the same put a cat's bottom in the shade....x

[hellywelly4]

Gness - any news of Mrs o?

[gness]

Still very poorly, Helly.......x

[tonyav]

Nuns !, what's wrong with the traditional sex education, back of the bike sheds at break time.

[DTCwordfan]

that's how to learn about what coitus interruptus is, isn't it, tony?

[tonyav]

It is if a teacher cops you, DT.

[DTCwordfan]

what's it called if it is the teacher?

[tonyav]

Ah, re-read your post, DT.
Yes it is.

[DTCwordfan]

teacher's pet....or practical biology on the fly?

[Psybbo]

Smacks of masturbed to me!

[EcclesCake]

The sex education a I received certainly worked. Amy fruit bowl often contains a banana sporting a condom.

I don't have any children :-)

[Mosaic]

oh my - chewy and flavourful....