to tell you I have just been reminded of my youthful reading. Sort of sex eduacation

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I will keep it decent.

My parents would never talk to me about sex. Thats where Hank Jansen
came in

He wrote sexy detective stories. (Long before your time?) He had women with tranluscent negligees and milky white thighs.

Looking back, a woman with milky white legs would look very odd indeed.
But that did not bother me when I was a 15 year old reading Hanks books.

He would probably seem tame now. I used to borrow paperbacks from the market, adf get a 50 per cent refund on return. It was so long ago...before the Pill and c+ndoms

Haha, my mum never spoke to me about sex either. I remember getting my sex ed from Judy Blume books when I was about 9 or 10.

I also picked up some from older children But those were innocent times

I too was educated by Judy Blume.
There was a loooong waiting list for those books at the school library. And they always fell open at interesting pages

It must have been a ver long time ago if it was pre-condom; Casanova used them

I got my sex ed from the problem page of Woman magazine. I still worship at the feet of Virginia Ironside.

I forgot to tell you when i was about 9, mum and dad bought me rabbits..

Well, they were upfront and behaved like.....rabbits. I am not sure what I made of it at nine,,,,,but it was an early lesson

I was educated by Grange Hill and Jackie magazine

This thread has brought back memories of reading 'extracts' from James Herbert books in the library

Ha, my mum was a biology teacher so I knew everything about sex.
If there was anything you wanted to know about fetishes, positions or failure rates of different forms of contraception, I was the girl to ask.

she taught in my school too and is a stranger to embarrassment so everyone in the school knew that my brother was the result of a split condom.

I read my Mum's 'Lace' by Shirley Conran when I was 12/13. It was a rude awakening to all things sexual, I can tell you. I can still remember the goldfish incident [shudder]

I dont know Judy Blume....But I am sure a lot of us went on to the womens advice columns later on.....Now Marje Proops became a big name in the Mirror

Funny thing was when Mrs Proops did her autobiog..she revealed that she had been having a secret affair for 20 years. (it amused me) I did not know what advice she had been giving on affairs for all those years.

OMG judy blume what a blast from the past - think it was called forever?? loved her books and also paula danziger books

Judy Blume...god, I just loved her book!!!!

Adrian Mole as well I loved, thought they were a bit rude, getting to "grips" with Pandora...Oh'er

bookS rather!

Judy Blume!!! She is responsible for most of my sex ed

My mum was very liberal and open so I always knew everything but I do remember passing round a copy of Judy Blume's Forever...it was quite eye opening!

My parents were too cumbria but FOREVER was something else, wasn't it?

DidListen with Mother do sex? probably not......I remeber a feature film called "Birthof A Baby" great fuss made, never saw it

I too, was a Judy Blume reader.....I remember "Forever".

It must have been naughty cos Mum took it away from me.

(Although in my teens I do remember reading "Emanuelle" !

I read Forever when I started High School .. i remember after that always going to the library to find it again just to read THAT part...there was only one copy though!

And then shortly after I discovered Mills and Boons - boy - THAT was an eyeopener, though it has turned me into an addict of stupid irritating smooshy romances. Such a love-hate relationship with those books !

My school used to instruct us to cover the books we had for coursework to help them to last longer. Quite handy when we wanted to circulate a copy of Linda Lovelace's book.

I remember borrowing 'Forever' from the Church library. My (very religious) Mother found it in the bedroom and went bananas. I pointed out the Church Library stamp in the front of it and she momentarily calmed down ... but then insisted on reading it from cover to cover flicking through it. I never saw it again! She apparently took it back and complained.

I have a feeling it was then removed for good. I felt dreadful as whilst I'd nearly finished it, I'd promised to lend it to half of the school a couple of friends.

I remember Harold Robbins being passed around the class.

I've obviously led a very sheltered life cos my love life has never lived up to that!

I read Forever when I started High School .. i remember after that always going to the library to find it again just to read THAT part...there was only one copy though!

Did the book naturally fall open at the err interesting bits ?

Judith Krantz taught me all I needed to know