Anyone here have any examples of how they have created a sex positive home? I know that's a broad term but In other words not shaming masturbation, encouraging nudity and healthy sexual behavior. I believe it can be confusing for married couples with kids to find time to have sex because you are afraid you kids will hear you. Now that my kids are teens my wife and I talk pretty openly with them about sex and masturbation. I make sure to not make him feel guilty about it. My daughter is basically a mini version of me and she's very sensitive to everything that's going on around her. My wife and I have a morning routine on Saturday and sometimes Sunday morning. I wake up make coffee for us and hot chocolate for the kids and go back in the bedroom and we have morning sex. I remember my daughter once asked "were you guys having SEX in there!?" We laughed and told her yes. She was horrified but now she knows to knock before entering the room. We also take showers together (wife and I) with the kids in the house. And we aren't afraid to walk around naked within the confines of our room and sometimes a quick trip to the laundry room or kitchen. What are your thoughts?
The key, I think, is being open and honest about... stuff. Not all up in someone's face about said stuff but honesty is always the best way to approach a sex-positive home. Open nudity... yeah, I don't know you'd go about that without causing some trauma when you have children but being nude in your bedroom? Perfectly fine as long as kids learn to knock and not just barge in and like they're prone to do. "Ew - were you guys having sex? Ew!" "Yep, we sure were," is the open and honest reply. No need to get into any details but mom and dad having sex is normal and natural and... yeah, knock first before coming into our room! Talking about sex and masturbation openly and honestly is a good thing - as long as you don't impose your values and beliefs upon them so they can learn to set these things for themselves like, for example, my parents telling me that masturbation was evil and don't do it instead of suggesting that I check it out and then find out how I feel about it or that "do as I say, not as I do" thing they were famous/infamous for that drove me insane. Or feeding me a load of bullshit about where babies come from. On the whole, being dishonest about sex and even sexuality doesn't aid in creating a sex-positive home environment.
Wow that is a pretty broad topic, I think it would be better to break it down to two different subjects. 1 nudity at home, my wife and I would be nude at home all the time in front of the little ones (boy & girl), this encouraged body acceptance and separated nudity with sex. 2 around puberty is when the kids realized sexual urges, that’s when we had various discussions on what sex was about, without going into detail graphic details but if they had a specific question we would definitely answer them. They knew when we wanted our time, and if they felt the urge to masturbate then that was their time. The big thing is allow them explore without shame.
There were many sex positive examples we set for our children in the home as they grew. One was a decorative glass piece on the end table that we used to signify we were having "alone time". If the glass piece was set on the floor, do not knock on the bedroom door. That was one of our rules we set when we explained how mom and dad made love. We used selected VHS soft porn to show the children what it looked like when two people were intimate. I made a tape from other porn scenes and cut out certain fake for porn activities but left shots of how the penis would enter the vagina for example. Other scenes were to show various positions a couple would be in when having sex including oral. Oh, they made mistakes like leaving cum filled towels in the bathroom. Or your used condom on your bedroom floor. Simple explaining that proper courtesy is to clean up your mess after your fun is over and keep certain things to yourself. Being a nudist I was forthright in being naked around my home. My children saw us enjoying nude times sunning or in our pool. They even joined us in the pool before puberty came about. Body change brought about self consciousness in them and we opted for swim suits so we didn't embarrass them or force them. I still went nude from time to time. We never shamed them for growing up and changing as my spouse had been by her parents. We also knew they would eventually explore sex themselves so knowing this we prepared them by supplying them with anti pregnancy methods (the pill and condoms). It was revealed to me they knew of our love making long before the glass piece rule came into effect. While camping we would get the kiddies tucked in and then relax for a while by the camp fire. Once it died down we headed for bed in our end of the pop up camper. Of course we had to do our bedtime exercises before going to sleep. Our oldest revealed to me many years later fond memories of being rocked to sleep in the camper during our exercises. He said it gave them a warm and secure feeling to know how much we loved each other then and still do today.
I think that's a very open and healthy atmosphere, attitude and situation. Sex is normal, sex is natural, sex is fun and should be thought of in that manner!!! I wish that I would have grown up in a household like that. My parents were prudes and extremely repressive as far as anything sexual. In my house, it was odd to see anyone running around in their underwear, let alone naked. This was troublesome for me because even at a very young age I loved being naked. Discussing anything sexual was a definite no no and masturbation was immoral, unnatural, shameful and sinful, but it didn't stop me.
Not a bad game plan. Honesty, honesty, honesty. Always. No shaming or guilt-tripping. About anything. Ever. Don't deny what you're doing, but don't jam it in their faces either. Family or social nudity is fine. Unless it begins to bother any of the kids. (More likely to happen in girls and usually around the onset of puberty.) If it happens, respect that and everyone wears clothes. It usually switches back. ...Unless peer pressure tries to keep it in place. Which it will. Be prepared to help them handle that. Be god-damned careful about physical interactions with, and what you do in front of, them. Kids talk, and they haven't established an adult's filters. Even an ambiguous or misworded statement to the wrong person can attract CPS and the cops, who take a VERY dim view of anything that can be seen as inappropriate.