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According to a new survey by O magazine and Seventeen, teen girls that get the "the talk" are more likely to practice safe sex and are half as likely to get pregnant. There's some disconnect on what that talk should actually entail, however, since while 90 percent of mothers said they have had the sex talk with their daughters, only 51 percent of daughters agreed.

We're pretty sure the only requirement for having a sex talk with your mother is that it be excruciatingly awkward.

Click here to read how some of our parents explained the birds and the bees -- and to share your story.



Emily, contributing editor: The thesis of our sex talk could be boiled down to "don't get pregnant." It was pretty understood from church that premarital sex was evil, but when I got my period for the first time, my mother sat me down and told me that I had to be really careful from now on, because my body could "make babies now." I remember feeling acutely uncomfortable and never really being that careful.

Julieanne, photo editor: My mom gave me "the talk" when I was 6, because I was starting to hear some pretty crazy ideas about how babies were made on the playground. To explain the actual act, she used a rather mortifying hand gesture (picture the index finger rapidly swabbing the "OK" signal), which was gross enough to put me off sex for a good four years or so.

And one editor got her mom to spill the beans on the infamous occasion:

Erin's mom: We had the "reproductive" talk. I remember it was after I came home from the hospital. You wanted to get out of there so fast. No real "sex" talks. I remember this like it was yesterday. Your sister just sat there, you wiggled around because you were SO uncomfortable. No questions, didn't last very long. I initiated this conversation.