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to think this memory of infant school is a bit dodgy

110 replies

MyDogHatesMe · 17/06/2011 11:01

I have a really strong memory from infants, when I was 5 or 6 (so about 28 years ago) of us having to do a 'Science Experiment' in class. Our teacher was a female and seemed elderly to me at the time but was probably actually in her 50s.

The experiment was to find a partner and then touch tongues with that partner. I chose my best female friend and I don't know if anyone chose a member of the opposite sex.

Looking back it seems really weird, I can't imagine why we had to do it, and everyone I tell about it looks at me like Hmm. It's not a false memory by the way - I know it definitely happened!

Did any teachers ever make you do anything like this?

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Glitterknickaz · 17/06/2011 11:43

Actually I'm relating a true event. It did happen. I reached that class in 1984.
You do know some people get sexual kicks out of the most ordinary things? Inanimate objects?

By that token should we not mention our kids at all just in case someone gets their kicks out of that? And actually this is not about our kids, it's us.

onagar · 17/06/2011 11:43

It could be a mixed up memory, or as navyblueknickers suggested it could have been an experiment with electricity or something. It could also at a stretch be a perverted teacher. It could even be that the op IS a pervert of some kind though she has made other less controversial posts.

LineRunner's your first and only thought was "ah a paedophile" is that always your first thought? like if someone asks you the time?

Glitterknickaz · 17/06/2011 11:46

Kids in public toilets
Kids in leisure centre changing rooms
Even dodgy girls clothing threads.... all potential paedo fodder if you take it far enough.

dmo · 17/06/2011 11:46

if we forgot our PE kits we had to do it in our underwear Hmm hence nobody forgot

LineRunner · 17/06/2011 11:46

Don't be silly.

My first thought about being asked anonymously online for memories of inappropriately sexualised experiences when I was a child is that someone anonymous online is asking me for memories of inappropriately sexialised experiences of my childhood.

No alarm bells ringing there at all?

itisnearlysummer · 17/06/2011 11:47

I doubt linerunner wonders if someone is a paedophile if someone asks the time, ongar. However, someone who is deliberately encouraging adults to share experiences of inappropriate behaviour between adults and children is at the very least naive.

I'm sure we could all start threads like this - I've certainly got posts I could add, but we wouldn't because we are aware that there might be people reading this.

There is a difference between mentioning our children and mentioning inappropriate things that adults did to us when we were children ourselves!

itisnearlysummer · 17/06/2011 11:48

sorry onagar. can't spell today.

RitaMorgan · 17/06/2011 11:50

Wtf? The OP relates a weird childhood memory and must be a paedo? Is she starting her other threads for kicks too? Confused

Paedo hysteria Hmm

Maybe the experiment was to look at each other's tongues, and you and your friend decided to touch tongues?

Fleurdebleurgh · 17/06/2011 11:51

A dinner lady bit me once for not wearing my coat. I ws about 8. Definitely happened and noone believed me.

Different kind of weird though.

MissMap · 17/06/2011 11:52

I remember a flying saucer landing in our school playing field when I was six. I remember it vividly. Other children were there too, why dont they remember it? I kid you not.
Apologies if this supplies material for dodgy ufologists to get off on.

ErinGoBraLess · 17/06/2011 11:52

I had a teacher who used to do science experiments that enabled her to smoke in the class room. It involved blue tack, an empty bottle, cotton wool and lots of puffing on a fag to get it to the right length. [hmmm]

Another thing she did quite often was to get the whole class to write who they liked and why out of their fellow classmates but also who they hated and why. Then she'd read them out. I have no idea why she did this. It was horrible. The hate ones were usually aimed at me.

scurryfunge · 17/06/2011 11:53

Rita....very naive. It is the encouragement to share sexual activity with a child anecdotes that is questionable.

katkitya · 17/06/2011 11:54

Calm down you lot. The OP is a poster on here. Once again people jumping to conclusions after the first post.

Things were different many years ago, that just how it was.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/06/2011 11:56

I think navyblueknickers theory is probably correct.

LineRunner · 17/06/2011 11:57

Share away.

I'm just saying be careful.

Anyone can read your posts and not in the way you might wish.

RitaMorgan · 17/06/2011 12:03

Ridiculous. Of course anyone can read posts in any way they want - there are no end of threads about rape, abuse, breastfeeding, potty training etc etc that someone somewhere probably gets off on.

scurryfunge · 17/06/2011 12:06

You are missing the point, Rita....the OP is actively inviting stories. Just be careful, that is all. If you are totally comfortable with it then that is your look out. Just be aware, you just may be feeding someone's fantasy without any real discussion going on at all.

tallulahxhunny · 17/06/2011 12:09

omg some of you are real freaks!

I have no idea why the teacher would make you do that OP but as others have said lots of stuff that shouldn't have happened did happen, its only when you look back you see how strange/inappropriate it is. I wouldn't worry about it, you have made it this far in life there is no point worrying about it now lol

RitaMorgan · 17/06/2011 12:10

And just be aware you are possibly accusing an innocent poster of being a paedophile!

scurryfunge · 17/06/2011 12:12

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ErinGoBraLess · 17/06/2011 12:14

I think this thread should be removed purely because of the 'Peedow Emurjuncy!!!!' posts. Just absolutely horrid. Angry

RitaMorgan · 17/06/2011 12:15

How nasty scurryfunge. The bitchiness and troll hunting madness on MN sometimes is unbelievable.

scurryfunge · 17/06/2011 12:17

I am usually the first to agree there is plenty of paedo-mania on MN but this does not ring true, sorry.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 17/06/2011 12:19

The OP registered yesterday

namechangedtoconfess · 17/06/2011 12:21

Unfortunately though, paedophiles do exist.

This isn't a thread about breastfeeding, potty training or funny/embarrassing things our children have said/done.

It's about adults sharing their own sexualised childhood experiences. There's no doubt that the motives of some of the adults encouraging these at the time were questionable. School was a very different place in those days.

However, I don't feel very comfortable at the thought of someone getting off on these.

And I did google that film that was under discussion last week, and I didn't think it sounded that bad (not the serbian one - the other one) so I'm not a particularly sensitive soul.