Sex

Most parents cringe and deny that their children will be like them and eventually have sex. Others embrace the thought and give their children "The Talk", explaining how and why to use birth control and condoms. My parents were not the best when it came to waiting for sex. Depending whom you ask, my mother was sexually active at the earliest age of 13. My father, on the other hand, loves to talk about his past and possibly future conquests. If there was a man I knew dominated by his own pleasure, it is my father.
My mother, being one of those who believes I will have sex with or without her consent or knowledge, is rather open. She was willing to take me to Planned Parenthood to get birth control, which was for my horribly painful and irregular menstrual cycle. She was the one I most avoided talking to about sex. Though she has cornered me to discuss my sex life, I tried hard not to give her any control over it.
On the other hand, my father loves to brag about his sex life. For example, he tells stories about high school. How he was able to touch his girlfriend, at the time, under their swim team parkas with a group of people sitting with them at a table. Another, is how he managed to have sex with the less than ten cases in the US, woman who have no womb or ovaries, but a vagina. He also has shared how he and my mother had "sex like rabbits" and how he'd owe the federal government just for the cost of condoms for every time. When I was driving his old car, he told me just how to have sex in the front seat, cautioning not to do it in the back seat. Recently, he made a deal with me that at an anime/scifi convention, we would rent a room, but if the do not disturb sign was up, we wouldn't enter the room, unless we really had to.
Between my parents, I became very insensitive to sex at an early age. Also, my mother chose to have a live-in boyfriend, while married to my father. This messed up how a family should be for me. I ended up deciding at a young age that I was only for few people, unlike my parents. However, around this time as well, I was introduced to pornography. My mother had refused to allow my father to watch his porn tapes in their bedroom, so they were constantly left in the VCR in the living room. When I would go in there to watch cartoons, I would watch porn. I was rather interested in it as a child. Granted, I did catch my parents in the act quite a few times. I caught my mother with my father, my mother with her boyfriend while married to my father, my father with his sixteen year old girlfriend after he divorced my mother (in the bathtub), and I could hear my father and stepmother in their room before we moved. Now that I have been sexually active, I understand how and why I was affected by this. However, this did not turn me into the sex hounds like my parents. I am committed to my partner outside sex, which is a lot for other couples my age.