I never really got a “birds and the bees” talk from my parents. Sex was this mysteriously evil thing to them because of religious reasoning. Obviously, when I was 18, in college and on my own…I decided to rebel. My rebellion took me down a completely different path where I decided that I wanted to learn everything I possibly could about sex.
Luckily for me, the Internet existed at that point.
I think that one of the reasons that having “the talk” has gone out of fashion is because of the Internet. Younger people can do whatever research they want to do just by pulling their phones out of their pocket.
Planned Parenthood has made it even easier by introducing a bot that will answer any questions just by sending a message. I took one for the team and had a conversation with the bot named Roo so that I could properly explain how the process goes.
When you text the word “Roo” to 22422, Planned Parenthood sends you a link to the Roo Bot. You input your gender from a plethora of suggested choices or you can even choose your own.
It takes you to an automated screen where you can ask any sexual question you would like and remain completely anonymous.
The system is intuitive, so the more questions it is asked, the more it will learn how to answer properly.
First, I decided to ask Roo a question that my 15-year-old self was very confused about, “Does pee come out of my vagina?”
Roo didn’t understand what I was saying and replied, “Sometimes we bots have a hard time understanding humans. Could you ask me in a different way?”
So I changed the word pee to urine and it still didn’t get it.
Question. Fail.
So then I asked, “Where does the penis go when you have sex?”
…Anticlimactically Roo didn’t understand that question either.
Then I found a winner.
“Can you masturbate too much?”
Roo replied, “Masturbating a lot won’t hurt you or cause serious health problems. It’s only a problem if it gets in the way of your daily activities –like school or your social life. If you’re worried, you can talk with an adult you trust. But odds are you’re not masturbating too much.”
Solid advice from the bot, folks.
As long as you are still able to go to work and function in society, you’re not getting off too much.
I think that Roo will be way more useful when it has learned what types of questions its users want answered. My wife asked the bot if you can get pregnant from anal sex, and it didn’t have an answer for that question either. I mean, when I was a teenager, I was confused about buttsex and where pee came out of. I can’t imagine that today’s teenagers think differently, especially since they’re totally saturated by sexuality because of the media and readily accessible porno.
I still think that the best way to education people in general about sex is to communicate. Whether that communication happens Online or in person is totally up to you.
My question to you this time around is:
What sexual secrets that you know now would you tell your younger self?
Let me know in the comments below or slide into my DMs on twitter.
Source: NY Post
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