I don't remember when the concept of sex first became known to me but I know it was when I lived in Philadelphia and I left there half-way through fourth grade.
My dad always left his Playboy magazines around, on the stand under the fish-tank, and one time my friend and I found a box of girlie magazines on the curb in another neighborhood.
We knew that you could do 'it' with a girl but we didn't really understand the mechanics. Two things that we knew for sure:
1. You couldn't do 'it' for more than 15 minutes or you'd die.
2. You had to screw the girl.
We talked a lot about number one and decided we'd have a watch of some sort and just do it until it was one second before 15 minutes. The concept of an orgasm was unknown.
We talked a lot about number two because we couldn't figure out the mechanics of screwing a girl. We figured that you must be on top of her, and then you'd both go in opposite directions because isn't that what a screw did, righty-tighty and all that? We didn't realize there was penetration of any kind and figured just being on top of her was what you had to do in order to join the done it club.
Then we'd go back to defining how close to 15 minutes we could go, turning in a circle on top of the girl, before taking the chance that we'd end up dead.
Posted by bbarton at April 26, 2005 08:52 AMYou can definitely see a scar that is a couple of inches long.
We had pretty good insurance, I think, so I'm not even sure it was a cost thing but more an inconvenience thing. So they were either cheap or uncaring... LOL
Posted by: Bob on April 27, 2005 06:11 AMhow did you manage to get four children?
Never mind; i don't really want to know.
Doesn't it just go to show you how foolproof regeneration is?
I agree with granny .. about the innocence. Now, with all the easy access to information, that innocence is lost .. or is it? I wonder whether or not the young folk put on a show of being more worldly wise than they really are? All I can say is, I definitely wouldn't want to go back to being an adolescent .. sweet as it was!
Posted by: Omykiss on April 27, 2005 03:24 PMYep, regeneration is foolproof! LOL
I agree with you about the feined worldliness, Omykiss. There's access to the information but I don't think they understand what they know.
Posted by: Bob on April 27, 2005 08:20 PM"We talked a lot about number one and decided we'd have a watch of some sort and just do it until it was one second before 15 minutes"....
LOL!
Hey, can I borrow that watch? There have been times that I wished for *at least* 14 minutes. ; )
Posted by: lu on April 28, 2005 12:47 PMSure! I don't ever use it any more anyway. ;)
Posted by: Bob on April 28, 2005 01:06 PM
Love the memories - and the innocence...how long it took to understand the mechanics. On last post - do you still have a scar on the arm that didn't get stitched? It's kind of horrifying to an even inadequate NHS Brit, that treatment wasn't available unless you could pay for it.
Posted by: grannyp on April 27, 2005 03:46 AM