(July 27, 2015 at 11:08 am)Exian Wrote: Yeah, I had a similar experience, Rob. I do tend to think it was an artifact of Christianity seeping in. Although, even without religion, parents in the states tend to cast a shadow on anything sex related by either saying out right that its bad, or by treating sex like the drug addicted uncle that "we never talk about".
My ex and I are doing whatever we can to be the opposite of that with our daughter. It's funny because even though we have an open door policy on ANY subject matter, she still gets uneasy and shies away a bit when we talk about sex related things with her, so maybe a little bit of it is innately embarrassing.
My guess is that your daughter is picking up on the attitudes of society at large.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
