Originally posted by popcornbird
I also believe children who are taught about sex before they need to know are the ones who want to 'try it out' first. We have enough early pregnancy problems in this country already. Little boys are innocent and don't need to know the details of women and adulthood at that innocent age, when they're going to absorb EVERYTHING they hear, and as children, will have the urge to try it themselves.
I COMPLETELY disagree with this. It has been studied through surveys, etc. that the INFORMED kids don't need to try it because they feel informed.

Debbie I thought you answers were really, really good. And from the sounds of Tonya's son, he would be able to handle an answer like that. It does totally depend on the child, and it totally depends on what kind of information they want to know. When I was little, I was an only child so I never had any need to ask about how babies were made. But when I got older and started to see pragnant ladies on TV I asked my mom and she told me, very much in the same way Debbie described, about sex. It wasn't gross because my mom didn't make it into a gross thing. Kids won't know to be uncomfortable unless they have been shown or told it's something to be uncomfortable about. If it's talked about as a "normal" part of being an adult, which it IS, kids won't care.

By making it a "dirty" subject you are just asking for kids to have a complex about feeling like a pervert every time they feel a sexual urge through puberty, which is really, really sad.