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LEAVING YOUR CHILDREN SOMETHING TO LOVE BY: SOME MOST OFTEN ASKED CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS ABOUT SEX

May 19, 2009

1. “Do girls have balls, too?”

Yes. In boys the balls, where the sperm is made, are called testicles, and they are on the outside of the body’s body in a sac called the scrotum. In girls, the balls, where her eggs are made, are inside, in the lower part of her body. They are called ovaries. “Balls” is just a slang word some people use for testicles, but boys and girls both have similar sexual organs. As usual, slang or bad words for sex and sex parts can confuse things.

2. ”Why do women bleed between their legs?”

They don’t really bleed, as they would from a cut. Every month a nesting place for a baby is made in a part of the woman’s body called the uterus. If a sperm and egg get together, a baby grows there. If the nest is not needed, it comes out the way a bird’s nest can fall from a tree. What comes out is the nesting material, with some blood and other things that make the nest. This is what is called menstruation. Women catch this unneeded nesting material with various types of pads. This is all part of a very natural process.

3. ”How do the boys get their sperm?”

Sperm is made in the testicles and the eggs are made in the ovaries. Boys make millions of sperm every day, but girls are bom with several hundred eggs, and only some of them ripen and become eggs that can join with sperm.