Being that I was raised in the Catholic Church and attended Catholic school through high school, sex was never up for discussion. I do recall a brief once-offered assembly that split us pubescent girls and boys into separate rooms where the process of pregnancy and birth was, uh, explained. It was the lousiest excuse for a sex education course (which was taught by nuns – who are widely known for being sexperts). My parents also tiptoed around the topic (and I certainly wasn't brave enough to ask). Hence, I turned to the ease of grabbing a Cosmo magazine off the shelf of my local pharmacy to absorb every word I could in hopes of enlightening myself with the basics of sexuality.