what NOVELS gave you the most sex education as a teenager?

[Dineysor]

me cain and abel ( ooh lalal) and also some crime writer,, not len deighton but someone similar

[dalek]

Lace, scruples and Wideacre

[LouLovesAeroplaneJelly]

Forever - Judy Blume
And then once when I was really really bored on holidays I read a mills and boon belonging to my mum. WELL that was an eye opener for sure. I remember reading the raunchy ones with friends and giggling over the sex scenes.

[Dineysor]

Ah by JB was for kids wasnt she? I am tlaking adult ones Jackie colline setc

[OhBling]

I've had this conversation on MN before. Lace, definitely. As I think I mentioned previously, I've always been slightly disappointed that no man has ever managed anything even vaguelly similar to the goldfish trick....

[Dineysor]

oh sorry!

[EccentricaGallumbits]

Jackie Collins.

[MaybeAfterBreakfast]

Judy Blume
Virginia Andrews (Flowers in the Attic et al)

[brimfull]

about periods etc
'are you there god it's me margaret'

about sex -sex tips for girls ,very saucy

[llareggub]

Clan of the Cave Bear

[southeastastra]

endless love lol

[LouLovesAeroplaneJelly]

llaregrubb- ooh yes I have forgotten about that one. Our school librarian actually removed them from the shelves.

[Lilymaid]

"The Group" by Mary McCarthy - all set pre-pill so there was much talk about dutch caps and the like.

[champagnesupernova]

yes kane and abel here too lol
Judy blume forever. ralph wtf!

And a crime writer too = I always remember one line 'sexual frenzy was wiping out her thoughts' lololo

[thedolly]

Not a novel but a poem by Seamus Heaney -'Undine'

He slashed at the briars, shovelled up grey silt
To give me right of way in my own drains
And I ran quick for him, cleaned out my rust.

He halted, saw me finally disrobed,
Running clear, with apparent unconcern.
Then he walked by me. I rippled and I churned.

Where ditches intersected near the river
Until he dug a spade deep in my flank
And took me to him. I swallowed his trench

Gratefully, dispersing myself for love
Down in his roots, climbing his brassy grain--
But once he knew my welcome, I alone

Could give him subtle increase and reflection.
He explored me so completely, each limb
Lost its cold freedom. Human, warmed to him.

-Seamus Heaney

[UnquietDad]

SF novelist Robert Silverberg was, ahem, eye-opening. Futuristic group sex, gay orgies, all kinds of stuff... I don't think my brother was quite aware of what he had bought me...

[kathyis6incheshigh]

Fay Weldon - Praxis, Puffball, Life & Loves of a She-Devil, etc.

[potplant]

My mum's Mills and Boon books.

[yappybluedog]

Jackie Collins & The Thorn Birds

[fluffyanimal]

Riders by Jilly Cooper, then various by Jackie Collins and Harold Robbins.

[OhBling]

Twopeople - I won't go into the details of the goldfish if you don't remember but in a nutshell, the Prince guy (Pagan's man) used a goldfish in a very ...cunning... way.

UQD - I'd forgotten about SF. Robert Heinlein I always felt descended into soft porn at one stage! I think I read Silverberg too but can't remember off top of my head. SF sex was always about threesomes and different moral standards - very exciting as a teenager!

[naturalblonde]

Judy Blume Forever

[UnquietDad]

Silverberg's "The Masks of Time" is amazingly explicit for the time.

[OhBling]

[CybilLiberty]

ohh I loved Lace.

I used to read out the dirty bits to the other girls in my Domestic Education Class. I never did finish that pinny.

I seem to recall some dirty bits in Rats by James Herbert