The topic of sexual education makes me nuts, because kids are certainly not now and have rarely ever been "clueless" about what adults do and delude themselves about keeping from their kids. Especially now that so many of them are carrying the entire internet around in their pockets.

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.

Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.

People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

The only answer that has any chance against against the information saturation kids face these days is to talk openly with kids, early enough and often enough and unflinchingly enough that you set the precedent of being the safe place they can go to ask their difficult questions. It has to happen starting when they're 2 or 3, and they ask you where babies come from and instead of freaking out and deflecting, you give facts commensurate with their ability to understand.