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    Time Out New York Kids / Issue 28 : Jan 15–Feb 15, 2008

    Let’s talk about sex

    How do you discuss the birds and the bees with a city kid?

    By Patty Onderko

    Illustration: Brendan Leach

    Kids in New York learn how to hail a taxi, order sushi and tip doormen before they’re five. So it makes sense to think that our sophisticated children must also know more about sex and how babies are made than their peers in, say, Boise, right? Not necessarily. Here’s how living in the city changes the way we should go about having “the talk”—and how it doesn’t.

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