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

Henry Miller did the rounds at school - that was filth!

My 80 yr old grandmother's historical novels were literary soft porn in disguise.

Hate to adit it, but fanfiction. Fanfiction and a fellow ff writer who was gay. I learnt about straight sex from a gay man/teen at 14, very interesting that was

I meant to add that they were novel sized, so I count them. Never read an actual book with explicit sex scenes in them!

I always remembered in forever..'you can never go back to just holding hands', which is quite good advice, and something I would follow if I ever end up dating again (being happily married kind of putting a spanner in following that advice at the mo )

Is the crime writer that some of you mentioned Sidney Sheldon? I read all his books in my early teens and they were an education!

My Mum used to run the Sunday school jumble sales and donations used to sit in our utility room until the sale - aged about 11 I found a book called The Happy Hooker in amongst the tea cosies and Readers Digest.

My views on sex were mainly influenced by this book for a long time - I thought everyone fantasised about horses, put beads up their bums and did the thing with Jello.

Fanny Hill

LOl one of my teachers caught me reading Sidney Sheldon and did a cats bum mouth.

"did the jello thing" what is this?!

I can't remember who would give the 16 year old me a ragged old copy of 'Dead Babies' by Martin Amis but my God the book contains some shameful shit.

The Jello thing was lesbians injecting partially set jelly up each other and sucking it out with straws.

There was also a bit with a girl getting stuck to a glass top coffee table and having to be removed with a fish slice.

I often wonder who in the village donated that book to the Sunday school jumble sale. I have my suspicions.........

Riders.

Judy Blume - Forever.
And I remember something about goldfish too but can't remember where I read it.

Couples by John Updike

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

lol!

Oh yes had forgotten about Henry Miller. Most shocking thing about all that was that it was autobiographical (allegedly).