[Sparrow]

i learned about the mechanics of sex from my medical encyclopedias as a kid. my Mama slipped a pamphlet about menstruation under my door to cover that. the rest i researched on my own on the internet.

i asked her later why we didn’t have a formal talk and she said she knew i was curious kid and would dig into it on my own and figured if there was anything i didn’t get i’d ask. shout out to scarleteen.com

it sounds really counter-intuitive, but it ended up being an approach that gave me a lot of freedom to seek out lots of ways to think about it. no one ever told me to wait until marriage or filtered their own baggage at me or made me feel shame about my body. to this day we can have really open conversations about sex.