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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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tillyfernackerpants · 22/07/2009 09:44

Dormez, our school took it out of the library once they realised what it was about!

Dormez · 22/07/2009 09:37

I'm a Forever by Judy Blume too. Everyone in my class read it! Some mums banned it and they had to read it in secret.

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Sunshinemummy · 22/07/2009 09:21

Oh also dad had a copy of Delta of Venus hidden on top of the wardrobe which I found and read.

mummypig · 22/07/2009 02:27

The Thorn Birds

1001 Arabian Nights (adult version)

some Rumer Godden books (I loved her children's books and then moved on to adult ones.)

and the Flowers in the Attic books although I wasn't so much into them

Ninive · 22/07/2009 02:18

Another one for Fay Weldon. Also Clan of the Cave Bear (and the rest). Lady Chatterley's Lover (although I can't remember now how much actual hanky panky being described in there. I vaguely seem to remember my first boyfriend and me having a laugh at naming our .. er .. parts).

Being Norwegian, I also have to mention Jens Bjørneboe, Agnar Mykle and Hans Jæger, all of which were accused of indecency and so on (like Lawrence). It is said that if you pick a certain book by Mykle out of any library shelf, it will automatically fall open at the interesting parts.

Oh, and Margit Sandemo, who writes trash, but who really opened my eyes when I was twelve.

I haven't read many of the books you mention - makes me wonder if I've missed something. And I'm really curious about the goldfish.

pushkar · 21/07/2009 21:09

jackie collins, got told off by my a level english teacher for writing trashy 'unrealistic fiction' she called it!!

Rachmumoftwo · 21/07/2009 21:01

Jackie Collins- lucky.
Then Jilly Coopers books- great bonkbusters!

MamaHobgoblin · 21/07/2009 21:01

Judy Blume's Forever when I was 11 and the other ones are good for basic sex ed too. Flowers in the Attic - not so much, unless I wanted to know how to seduce my brother...

Used to read the dirty bits from my grandfather's Harold Robbins books. And another vote for Kinflicks! Um, what else? I think I might have got hold, ooer, of a copy of Fanny Hill quite early on. Oh! I know - Wendy Perriam. My mother got quite into her when I was a teenager and passed them onto me. Very raunchy.

gigglewitch · 21/07/2009 20:46

Another one for flowers in the attic when I was 12, also Thorn Birds. Then lots of Greek myths - Ovid's Metamorphoses tells you plenty about err birds, bees and more

CybilLiberty · 21/07/2009 18:08

My Grandad had this in his study and I used to go for a peek when they went out. Lots of lacy lingerie and slipped bra straps

NoHotAshes · 21/07/2009 17:58

Clan of the Cave Bear, and the rest of that series by Jean M Auel.

pinkchampagne · 21/07/2009 17:04

Judy Bloom - Forever

BettyTurnip · 21/07/2009 16:58

Yes, another one pilfering her mum's Harold Robbins... "The Lonely Lady". Remember being Wtf? at all the references to 'balling'! Aslo swiped her library copy of "Fear of Flying" by Erica Jong with all the zipless fuck stuff going on.

8oreighty · 21/07/2009 16:21

actually been thinking a lot about this lately, flowers in the attic for me too...they were brother and sister!! guess it's a follow on from luke and leia, but a bit weird.

Sunshinemummy · 21/07/2009 16:01

Forever by Judy Blume
The Farmer's Naughty Daughter - no idea who by but it did the rounds at school.
The White Hotel by DM Thomas

ButterbeerAndLemon · 21/07/2009 15:53

The only bit of Lace I've actually read is the goldfish bit... . That got passed around the whole class when we were 13/14 or so.

mollyroger · 21/07/2009 15:48

oh god, Julie Burchill's Ambition has popped into my head.. but I devoured it at the time.
Also a really trashy American book called The Debutantes

LadyGlencoraSnape · 21/07/2009 15:47

Harold Robbins (particularly one called The Pirate) and Princess Daisy. And The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart which was quite eye-opening for a 12-year-old.

notamumyetbutoneday · 21/07/2009 15:44

Princess Daisy
Lace
There was a Jackie Collins one with the red cover- cant remeber for the life of me what it was called! Thats going to drive me mad until I remember.

They were my Mums and I would read them whilst she was out

KingRolo · 21/07/2009 15:01

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - utter filth.

Did it at uni aged 18. Aged tutor clearly got kicks out of discussing it with us. Filthy sod.

Lammie · 21/07/2009 13:11

Are you there God it's me Margaret.-Judy Blume. Read this one first and then go onto Forever -Judy Blume. The first one is about buying first bra and realationships and feelings with peers and parents. The latter one is more first encounters. The rug infront of the fire scene still sticks in my memory.

Lammie · 21/07/2009 13:09

Are you there God it's me Margaret.-Judy Blume. Read this one first and then go onto Forever -Judy Blume. The first one is about buying first bra and realationships and feelings with peers and parents. The latter one is more first encounters. The rung infront of the fire scene still sticks in my memory.

lljkk · 21/07/2009 12:56

My Darling My Hamburger, and The Pigman, by Paul Zindel. Because they showed how confused and murky relationships can be, how unpredictable and out of control the whole process is, lol.

juneybertiebottsbean · 21/07/2009 12:55

I remember hiding a Mills and Boon I had stole from my nanas house when I was bout 14 lol