My niece Brooke sent me the following link to a hysterical children's book from the 70s called "How A Baby Is Made". The drawings are enough to send you into fits of church giggles. If you get to the drawing of the baby crowning and you don't wet your pants, you need to look at it again.
Make sure you click through them all, and don't forget to read the "Sexplanations" from the blogger, beneath each page of the children's book.
"HOW A BABY IS MADE"
I think that most of us who came of age in the 70s and 80s, especially those of us in religious households, learned about sex via a book our parents gave us. For my brother Andrew and I it was, "Susie's Babies", a book about an classroom of students who had a pregnant hamster. The teacher explains to the children how the hamster got pregnant, and the students watch the hamster give birth.
As my brother Andrew jokes, "It was great! After reading the book, I knew how hamsters got pregnant. I still knew nothing about sex, but I could sure as heck teach a class on the hamster birthing process!"
Did your parents give you a book to help you learn about sex? If so, what was it?
We didn't get a book, we learned it from other people in class and we had classes which were so silly now that I look back;)
ReplyDeleteThe one after the crowning picture, with the baby's arms stretched out - I laughed so hard.
ReplyDeleteMy parent's didn't have any kind of sex talk with me. When I was in middle school, a friend's parent loaned me her daughter's book. It was slightly more helpful than Susie's Babies, and no where near as entertaining as How A Baby Is Made. Actually it was more about puberty and "our changing bodies" than it was about sex or babies.