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

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Dineysor · 20/07/2009 10:57

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

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bibbitybobbityCAT · 06/10/2009 19:25

Oh yes had forgotten about Henry Miller. Most shocking thing about all that was that it was autobiographical (allegedly).

bibbitybobbityCAT · 06/10/2009 19:23

Couples by John Updike

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

lol!

saramoon · 06/10/2009 19:20

Judy Blume - Forever.
And I remember something about goldfish too but can't remember where I read it.

colditz · 27/09/2009 21:06

Riders.

CornishKK · 27/09/2009 21:05

The Jello thing was lesbians injecting partially set jelly up each other and sucking it out with straws.

There was also a bit with a girl getting stuck to a glass top coffee table and having to be removed with a fish slice.

I often wonder who in the village donated that book to the Sunday school jumble sale. I have my suspicions.........

yama · 26/09/2009 22:23

I can't remember who would give the 16 year old me a ragged old copy of 'Dead Babies' by Martin Amis but my God the book contains some shameful shit.

cathcat · 26/09/2009 22:23

LOl one of my teachers caught me reading Sidney Sheldon and did a cats bum mouth.

"did the jello thing" what is this?!

differentID · 26/09/2009 22:11

Fanny Hill

CornishKK · 26/09/2009 22:10

My Mum used to run the Sunday school jumble sales and donations used to sit in our utility room until the sale - aged about 11 I found a book called The Happy Hooker in amongst the tea cosies and Readers Digest.

My views on sex were mainly influenced by this book for a long time - I thought everyone fantasised about horses, put beads up their bums and did the thing with Jello.

ToffeeAddict · 26/09/2009 14:03

Is the crime writer that some of you mentioned Sidney Sheldon? I read all his books in my early teens and they were an education!

Noonki · 24/07/2009 16:15

I always remembered in forever..'you can never go back to just holding hands', which is quite good advice, and something I would follow if I ever end up dating again (being happily married kind of putting a spanner in following that advice at the mo )

PixiNanny · 24/07/2009 15:55

I meant to add that they were novel sized, so I count them. Never read an actual book with explicit sex scenes in them!

PixiNanny · 24/07/2009 15:54

Hate to adit it, but fanfiction. Fanfiction and a fellow ff writer who was gay. I learnt about straight sex from a gay man/teen at 14, very interesting that was

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Heated · 24/07/2009 15:42

Henry Miller did the rounds at school - that was filth!

My 80 yr old grandmother's historical novels were literary soft porn in disguise.

stickylittlefingers · 24/07/2009 15:41

Scruples, and Tantalus

Twitmonster · 24/07/2009 15:35

Lady Chatterley's lover. Although I secretly watched the tv series as well which made me hanker after a certain type of man...

SkaterGrrrrl · 24/07/2009 15:30

Lace.

The Thornbirds.

saffycat · 23/07/2009 11:23

Endless Love

Sunshinemummy · 23/07/2009 10:25

Agreed llaeggub. I read her autobiography and she was one messed up lady. Same with Ralph for me too.

llareggub · 22/07/2009 17:45

Oooh yes. Forgot about Delta of Venus. Now that WAS an education. I always snigger when I read of people on the baby threads wanting to call their baby Anais. I could never name a child Ralph for the same reason.

Sunshinemummy · 22/07/2009 14:07

Delta of Venus is a collection of erotic short stories by Anais Nin.

SparklyGothKat · 22/07/2009 10:02

forever-Judy Blume. I actually still have my copy

SetSquare · 22/07/2009 09:52

what IS delta of venus - haev nevr heard of it

bleh · 22/07/2009 09:51

The Horse Whisperer. My friend read it first, and then helpfully pointed out the dirty bits which we used to re-read all the time. I do remember one bit where she's giving him fellatio and I thought "That's gross. There's no way I'd ever do that, maybe once, but never again". Ha!

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