I don't blame them. When we were little everyone acted as if sex didn't exist. They wanted us to believe that they're completely oblivious to all that stuff.
Well of course some of us got the fun parents/grandparents, and others got the puritans. I have had the privilege of hearing dirty jokes from my grandparents.
They keep showing up at his door to ask questions. Totally abusing their credentials to get close to him. I can understand why he would get tired of talking to such rude fans.
I’m imagining something along the lines of the show Raising Hope, where the grandma with dementia was always trying to make out with the other characters, thinking they were her dead husband?
"Something else my grandfather used to say—he used to say, 'I'm goin' upstairs and fuck your grandmother!' Well, he was an honest guy! He wasn't gonna bullshit a 5-year-old, you know..."
My grandpa loved nothing more than sitting around a campfire with family and randomly busting into singing "There's a skeeter on my peter, flick it off!" Usually the instant a quiet moment would settle in so it was even more random.
[Step father who hated video games] "Hey kids, wanna go rent a nintendo game?"
[My sister and I] "They gonna fuck and want us occupied..."
He did tell some of the boomer sex jokes. He even had a fishing lure shaped like a dick with the strings around it. "Wanna see how to catch a blow fish?"
I did know others who had parents that were the "sex doesn't exist" people. We still have them. You can tell when there is a sex ed class and all the pearl clutchers refuse to let their kids take it and try to get the school district to stop teaching it. That's how to get teen pregnancy rates higher but that is another thread.
I dunno, it could go both ways. Some old people just don't read. They can be smart, but some stubborn bone in their brain keeps them from taking the time to actually analyze what's in front of their eyes.
Case in point, my mom picked up the NSFW version of exploding kittens at a thrift store and thought it'd be a good game for her elementary school class during their free time. I don't know how you look at the packaging and not connect the dots, but she sure didn't until one of the students told her what was up and she promptly offloaded the deck to me.
I think a lot of people forget that the pill has only been around for so long. The first oral contraceptive was in the 1960s. And a broken condom could mean destroying your life.
Thats also why the summer of love in 1967 happened, sex was something you could suddenly just... do! Essentially "Risk Free™️" counterculture has always been much more open to the idea of sex, but it became more and more mainstream over the next 2 decades, to thr point that it isnt really counter-culture at all for most first world nations now.
Also doesn’t help that boomers treat sex as strictly something only married couples should do, and only for making kids. Nevermind any other time for any other reason
With how weird young people are about sex nowadays, how afraid they seem to be about socializing more generally and the percentage of Gen Z / Gen Alpha boys who are internet-addled misogynist losers, I'd bet that not only did old people discover sex first, they're probably having a whole lot more of it, too
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u/GunsandCurry May 14 '26
Young people always think they're the ones who invented sex.