Looking back, I wonder what my teachers thought of me reading the {{Halo}} books in school, when I was 10.

This tropette saw the cover of one of her brothers porn movies when she was about 6. The woman appeared to have a penis coming OUT of her anus as well as one in her mouth. This tropette was pretty traumatized.

This troper, who is a male, found his Dad's porn stash one day when he was 7 years old. Oddly enough, I wasn't traumatized at all by this, I was more curious about what in the hell the people in the book were doing than anything else.

This troper's mother found her reading the back of some books her mother had borrowed from her sister. Anne Rice's ''Sleeping Beauty''. Damn, I have never seen my mother run that fast, or ever seen her remove a book from my hands, EVER AGAIN. Funnily enough, I wasn't interested in opening up the book. I just liked reading the back of all of her romance novels.

This troper innocently "borrowed" her aunt's copy of the first ''{{Outlander}}'' book to read, figuring that romance novel must naturally equal Harlequin-style fluff. I don't know how far I got into it before she pried it out of my little hands. (I was, perhaps, ten.) This is the romance novel with all the historically accurate profanity, historically accurate sex and graphic male rape. (Also, I kept trying to borrow my mom's copy of Tale Of The Body Thief and have her not notice..)

This troper was looking for her Bible under her parents' bed when she found a condom container. When she was 10 and starting to learn about...''things''. She was shuddering for an hour.

I must say, your parents should be ashamed. To be exact, ashamed of themselves. Hypocrites really piss me off.

This troper's cousin (aged ten at the time), upon learning she was getting twin siblings, went up and asked her father "Gee Dad, did you forget the condom?" Our reaction was outright hilarity mixed with a good dose of "Errrrr...." Do we have a trope for CrowningMomentOfFunny melded with {{Squick}}?

This troper comes from a family who've just tended towards reading more adult novels earlier than average, now the {{Discworld}} novels aren't particularly adult, but those covers resulted in the odd upset teacher back in primary school.

The daughter of this troper's friend was looking through her parent's bedroom when she found a condom in their draw. The only explination she was given was "It's Daddy's. Put it back where you found it." She was about 6 and that was acceptable to her.

This troper was 8 and bored at her aunt's place, so what did she do when she found a black and white comic? She started colouring it in. Why did Auntie freak out? It was an erotic comic.

I wish ''my'' aunt kept hentai around...

...K.

This Troper's mother was a schoolteacher in one of the most violent school districts in the US. One day, she sent the kids out to play, and they came back in and said, "Mrs. ______! There's a dead body in the playground!" Indeed there was. And it so happened to be the case that the school was located across the street from a bar.

This is one half of the explanation for people's fear of clowns. The other half is StephenKing's ''{{It}}''.

My second cousin seems to be very similar to me. If so, if he likes to read fine. If by then he takes a Warriors book, I'm going to take it out of his hands. He's got five year until I'll let him read it.

This troper got in one during the last few months of his childhood (Just before he turned 18), while he was visiting his sister over at her house one night. Her husband was going to clean the living room, but because he got called into work early, he didn't have time to straighten anything up; resulting in me seeing a box of condoms on the floor. OF course, by then I already knew what condoms where for, resulting in an urgent need for BrainBleach.

I (Fniff), was a fan of Stephen King... At age 9. Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Star reading some stories from the Arabian Nights at 10. And no, it wasn't a "for kids" version.

This troper and his wife enjoy some "adult entertainment" to spice up our sex life. We left one of the cases out once and my son (he was six or seven at the time) noticed it. I grabbed it away from him before he could get a look at it, as it was one of the covers without the naughty bits covered.

I found my dad's secret collection of erotic manhwa at age 10. I never told him, but I couldn't help it; I kept sneaking looks into it now and then.

This troper got a stern lecture (he is 19) from his parents after one of their friend's son (age 7) got onto his computer (he had been reading ''[=~Latias' Journey~=]'' and ''TwilightValley'' before). Needless to say, said kid was traumatized at the ''incredible'' level of brutality and gore contained in ''[=~Latias' Journey~=]'' and he spouted off "bastard", "asshole" and "damn" nearly constantly (thanks to TwilightValley). #QUOTE#'''Mother:''' [DialgaX], you're old enough to read stuff like that. Part of being old enough to read things like that is being responsible enough to make sure those who are not old enough to read things like that don't get their hands on it.

When I was 6, I had just learned how to read, and I was reading everything in sight. In Israel, condoms aren't behind the counter like they are in other countries. After about five minutes of staring thoughtfully at a box, I looked at my father and asked "Why are they flavored?"

This troper first found porn when she was eight years old, e-mailed to her by her seven-year-old best friend. But she was a pervert long before that, when she was about five (it involved outings with her dad and having to go into the men's room, walkng into rooms where her mother was naked, and seeing her cousin in the washroom by accident, and erotic dreams which she still has no idea where they came from). When she realized it was wrong, it wore off ... now, it's about 55% back to where it started from. She's trying to lower it again. Also, her best friend swore constantly and she copied him. Plus, he showed her extremely violent movies on his iPod, along with sex. She beat you all.

I'm trying to debate who's more awesome, you or your friend (the first one). I'm leaning towards her, because sexuality is '''not''' wrong.

I was twelve when I read ''When Rabbit Howls''. My mother wasn't pleased, but considering I was already halfway done by the time she found out I was reading it, she saw no use in stopping me. Oddly, it didn't bother me all that much when I first read it, but in the five years since I read it, every single time I try to open the book nowadays it ends up squicking me out every single time. Note to self: ''When Rabbit Howls'' is instant {{Mind Rape}}.

... Does reading tvtropes at a young age count? somewhat, yeah I think so...

Waiiiit, how old are/were you?

Not the orriginal poster, but I'm 12 and know my way around tvtropes. Also, if you go under the WMG page of fairly odd parrents, you'll see a link to a dark (nsfw) fanfic. I wrote it. What are laws for kids WRITING 18+ fiction?

I'm 11. Yeah.

I'm 11, too. Apparently I no longer have the honour of being the youngest Troper.

When this troper was younger, she boredly took one of her mother's Sookie Stackhouse novels and started reading it. She was halfway through the second book when her mother realized it and asked her to stop. At another time, although she doesn't know why now, she went into her parents room to read. In jumping onto their bed, she felt something hard beneath one of the pillows. On pulling it out it was a half-unzipped nondescript black bag. Her curiosity getting the better of her, she opened it. It contained sex toys, lube, and "sensual massage oil". She needed some serious brain bleach for that one.

This troper was reading Phryne Fisher and Stephanie Plum novels at a young age. Both feature sex scenes, though the PH novels have the sex scenes written in PurpleProse (which bored the fuck out of me, so I usually skipped them- I was reading them for the mystery) and the SP novels usually stop describing what happens after foreplay (and sex scenes aren't that common, actually). My mother didn't like me reading them at all, but I kept doing so because her attempt to hide them just failed.

Possibly an inversion or subversion, this troper is infinately curious and will try to learn everyting she can, of course this was also true as a child, as a result I saw many, many things that I 'shouldn't see' and as a result I believe I am alot wiser than a 'normal childhood' would allow. I may be just extremely lucky to have the sort of personality that allows this to be so.

This troper has a couple:Once when I was about 5 maybe my grandma was watching a movie when I came in. She saw me and told me to play on the computer since the movie had some blood, Cue this troper claiming they've seen blood before (not that much though) Second time I was at my aunt's house hanging out, I started reading a(Grateful Dead)comic before my dad grabbed it hand told me it was too adult. The comic he gave me to read instead? Bird Cameo}} Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl}} the Cute Little Dead Girl

By the Time I was Thirteen I had read Stephen Kings "Rita Haworth and The Shawshank Redemption" among othe things.