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

[Dineysor]

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

Lace, scruples and Wideacre

Forever - Judy Blume
And then once when I was really really bored on holidays I read a mills and boon belonging to my mum. WELL that was an eye opener for sure. I remember reading the raunchy ones with friends and giggling over the sex scenes.

Ah by JB was for kids wasnt she? I am tlaking adult ones Jackie colline setc

I've had this conversation on MN before. Lace, definitely. As I think I mentioned previously, I've always been slightly disappointed that no man has ever managed anything even vaguelly similar to the goldfish trick....

oh sorry!

Jackie Collins.

Judy Blume
Virginia Andrews (Flowers in the Attic et al)

about periods etc
'are you there god it's me margaret'

about sex -sex tips for girls ,very saucy

Clan of the Cave Bear

endless love lol

llaregrubb- ooh yes I have forgotten about that one. Our school librarian actually removed them from the shelves.

"The Group" by Mary McCarthy - all set pre-pill so there was much talk about dutch caps and the like.

yes kane and abel here too lol
Judy blume forever. ralph wtf!

And a crime writer too = I always remember one line 'sexual frenzy was wiping out her thoughts' lololo

Not a novel but a poem by Seamus Heaney -'Undine'

He slashed at the briars, shovelled up grey silt
To give me right of way in my own drains
And I ran quick for him, cleaned out my rust.

He halted, saw me finally disrobed,
Running clear, with apparent unconcern.
Then he walked by me. I rippled and I churned.

Where ditches intersected near the river
Until he dug a spade deep in my flank
And took me to him. I swallowed his trench

Gratefully, dispersing myself for love
Down in his roots, climbing his brassy grain--
But once he knew my welcome, I alone

Could give him subtle increase and reflection.
He explored me so completely, each limb
Lost its cold freedom. Human, warmed to him.

-Seamus Heaney

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...

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

My mum's Mills and Boon books.

Jackie Collins & The Thorn Birds

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

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!

Judy Blume Forever

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

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