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Grandmas are great for so many things: baking cookies, telling stories about what it was like to live in the olden days, and…doling out sex advice? The idea may freak you out, but if your grandma knows so much about every other area of life, doesn’t it kind of make sense that she’d have some brilliance to share in this arena, too? We rounded up a few instances of grandmas who just wanted to spread some carnal knowledge, even if the recipient was a bit mortified to hear it.

“I still can’t believe this happened, but when I was a teenager my grandma once told me I should always wear a really shiny lip gloss when going on a date with a guy I liked because the wetness on that set of lips would make him think about wetness on the other pair. I have no idea why she thought I needed to know that. I’m still scarred.” —Lina T.
 

“My grandmother was staying with us and providing after-school babysitting. One day, when I was about nine, I got off the bus and walked in the house where she was watching daytime soaps. She turned to me, and with no introduction whatsoever, said, ‘Just remember, honey, if your husband ever says he’s too tired for sex, he’s sleeping with someone else. Leave him.’ It clearly had something to do with the telenovela on the screen but also probably with her life experience. I simply nodded and said okay, and we moved on with our lives. But I’ve often thought back to it, changed my views on it, and remembered it throughout the years. I’m sure she had no idea it would have such an effect on me.” —Darlena C.

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“My grandma bought me white lingerie with a very cute cover robe for my bridal shower. After I got married, she told me that I should have sex with my husband often because that was the best part of marriage. She said that we should enjoy each other!” —Marie S.

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“When I was dating my first serious boyfriend, he came to visit my parents and my grandmother, who lived with them at the time. During the course of the visit, both my mother and father said to me—in private, obviously—something like, ‘He’s such a nice guy. You know, if you sleep with him, that would probably be okay.’ My parents were pretty oblivious to the fact that we were already having sex. But the most amazing thing was that after the visit, my grandmother said something like, ‘He is such a nice boy. You know, I don’t know what your parents would think of this, but I think it would be all right if you two went to bed together.’ It was just really funny to think of my grandmother, who I never thought of as sexual, to be thinking that this guy was so great that we should totally get it on. She was a really sweet lady.” —Jasmine C.

“My grandma told me height only mattered if you were standing up, ‘if you know what I mean.’ I disagreed. We had an argument about it. I was 11! Apparently, she also showed my mom how to perform fellatio using a banana because ‘She was getting married and needed to know this.’” —Alex S.

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