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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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euromum · 21/07/2009 12:54

Although does anyone actually want a goldfish there I wonder?

euromum · 21/07/2009 12:53

Another vote for Lace here. Came across it in a second hand bookshop a couple of years ago and re-read it, the first non-literary book I had read for ages ( at own snobbish tendencies). Still a great read and it kickstarted a phase of reading nothing but trashy novels and detective fiction that I'm still in - though having 2 kids and developed baby brain in the meantime might have something to do with that too...

"Which one of you bitches is my mother" surely qualifies as one of the best plot lines ever, and I too have been vaguely disappointed by the failure of any man so far to replicate the goldfish thing .

Mspontipine · 21/07/2009 12:46

Dad's underbed porn mag stash!!

In English we were encouraged to make a list of books we were reading in the back of our exercise books. I was an avid reader through childhood - Enid Blyton....then pony books.....by 11,12 was enjoying mainly Jackie Collins The Bitch, Stud etc - listed them all - never any comment from teachers!!

Jackie Collins was pretty tame though when compared to Jily Cooper - her sex scenes are outright filth!! !!!

tiredandgrumpy · 21/07/2009 12:39

Ooh Lace - was thinking about the goldfish only the other day. Also 'North & South' - was a tv series which was far raunchier in the book.

JamieJay · 21/07/2009 09:34

Jilly Cooper (Riders, Polo et al).

I was an avid reader in primary school and had read all the books on offer there (small school so small library). Moved onto my mums books during my last year there and Polo was the first I read. Headmaster almost called my mum into school as he didn't approve of me reading such stuff.

Dophus · 21/07/2009 09:30

Flowers in the attic
Ken Follet
Jackie Collins
Harold Robbins

Such quality reading! At least I was only 12.

Which book was the prince and the goldfish in - I remember that one! I was always concerend what would have happened if he didn't get it out!

GetOrfMoiCockroachCluster · 21/07/2009 08:57

Ditto Lace, Riders and Rivals by Jilly C and (expecially) Lovers and Gamblers by jackie Collins. I was obsessed with that book, looking back it was a weird book, set in the late 70s where the hero was definitely based on Tom Jones. The references to quaaludes definitely went over my head (understood the sex scenes though!). Jesus H Christ!

BalloonSlayer · 20/07/2009 18:11

It's actually Tattoo by Earl Thompson if anyone's interested.

BalloonSlayer · 20/07/2009 18:01

We used to read James Herbert's horror books at school, and there was always a sex scene in every one.

Did anyone ever read a book called Tattoo, by (I think) Earl Thomas? It was about a young boy who joins the navy (army?) in the late fifties and shags woman after woman after woman. That was basically the plot. We all read it (our Mum included), it was "how are you getting on with the dirty book?" >

faeriemummy · 20/07/2009 16:51

Jilly Cooper and Danielle Steel hehe!! Basically raiding my mums bookshelves :O

FAQinglovely · 20/07/2009 16:45

there was one we did for Scottish Higher English which I seem to recall was rather raunchy in places. I can't however for the life of me remember what it was called

MaggieVirgo · 20/07/2009 16:44

Judy bLume. Forever, summer sisters, there was another one. I can't remember its title.

tillyfernackerpants · 20/07/2009 16:43

Pretty similar for me - Lace, Forever (Judy Blume)

I think Forever was taken out of the school library when they twigged what it was about

CybilLiberty · 20/07/2009 16:10

I'm soooo getting Lace to read on my gals only holiday.

MeAndMyMonkey · 20/07/2009 16:09

Kinflicks
Lace
Flowers in the attic

I still love Lace : 'Which one of you bitches is my mother?'

CybilLiberty · 20/07/2009 16:04

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

OhBling · 20/07/2009 14:08
UnquietDad · 20/07/2009 14:04

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

naturalblonde · 20/07/2009 13:57

Judy Blume Forever

OhBling · 20/07/2009 13:55

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!

fluffyanimal · 20/07/2009 13:04

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

yappybluedog · 20/07/2009 12:59

Jackie Collins & The Thorn Birds

potplant · 20/07/2009 12:32

My mum's Mills and Boon books.

kathyis6incheshigh · 20/07/2009 12:30

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

UnquietDad · 20/07/2009 12:23

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...