Not one subject had had ‘the birds and the bees’ talk with their parents, ever. “You’d be mad to bring sex up in front of parents, you’d get a proper beating. The mother and daughter have such a relationship that the daughter can ask her mother about anything related to those things, but the boy can’t ask his father anything,” a subject who was the father of a son and two daughters described the norms, in the present as they had been in the past.
