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arf - look at this book compiled by India Knight of favourite dirty bits from books.

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cupsnakes · 11/10/2006 11:31

The Dirty Bits For Girls

'One day someone came back from half-term with Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin...Well. Well. The book briskly did the rounds, getting tattier and tattier with each reading. Mouths dropped open in shock. Eyes popped with disbelief. Did people really...Did men really want to ...?' Edited and introduced by India Knight, The Dirty Bits - for girls is an unmissable collection. From zipless action in Fear of Flying to jolly romps with Jilly Cooper; from transgressions with a priest in The Thorn Birds to mischief with Mellors; from a gentle first encounter with 'Ralph' in Forever to anything and everything but gentle in The Story of O. Even Keats, Chaucer and Shakespeare are up for no good, to say nothing of Prince Abdullah and that unspeakable thing with a goldfish in Lace. These are the stories that taught us about sex, volumes pilfered from our parents' bookshelves, books passed girl to girl, hidden in desks, whispered and wondered about.'

At our school it was all about Ralph...

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cupsnakes · 11/10/2006 17:26

what did James Herbert write?

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sandyballs · 11/10/2006 12:01

I remember the saucy bits in the James Herbert books - I used to go the library to study them

Bugsy2 · 11/10/2006 11:57

I remember listening on the phone while a friend read the naughty bits of Judith Kranz books!!! I had no idea what most of it was about, but we read bits of those books until the pages fell out.

cupsnakes · 11/10/2006 11:35

do you remember Ralph and the aftershave incident?

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cupsnakes · 11/10/2006 11:34

yes, I shall have to get it too.

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nappiesLaGore · 11/10/2006 11:34

lol. the name Ralph will onlyever mena penis to me. and a laughable childish falccid one at that (rather than the rampant quivering sort - just for clarity)

EnidVorhees · 11/10/2006 11:34

hooray

Lace was 'our' one at school

KathyMCMLXXII · 11/10/2006 11:33

What a fabulous idea!
I think I might get this for dh - was trying to explain to him about the goldfish recently.
(Not, I might add, in order to get him to do it.)