The Good Parts

[geminigirl]

What was the first book you remember looking for "the good parts" where the good parts were something "dirty" or titillating, or prurient?

If you like, what do you remember about it? How old were you?

I was in grade six, and it was Anne Frank-The Diary of a Young Girl. I believe there were some passages about menstruation which were the first things one of the girls in my class who had already read the book showed us.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Early teens, and either Jaws or Wifey, don't remember which I read first. Before that, though, I discovered a Hustler magazine with a scratch-and-sniff centerfold, and that didn't make me want to know more.

[geminigirl]

I read Wifey when I was about fifteen or so, and it had some pretty hot sex in it, all things considered. I'd discovered a copy of Judy Blume's "Forever" in my parents' basement when I was about thirteen or fourteen and that was really hot stuff. I'd seen it referenced somewhere else, and a friend had told me about the sex parts, so I had to read them. That was the first book I remember actively masturbating while I read it. Around the same time I got a hold of that, I also managed to score a copy of something by Erica Jong (I think it was probably "Parachutes and Kisses") in the basement, too, which was incredibly hot and included words like clitoris and "red wings". So much of it went overmy head but wow was it hot stuff.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

scratch and sniff???

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I found it under my sister and brother-in-law's sofa, one day, while cruising for something to read. It smelled like overripe laundry.

[geminigirl]

I suppose rather different from the real thing then.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Are you there God, it's me, Margaret?

I was in the seventh grade, it was forbidden to order via RIF (I was in Catholic School). So, because it was the first book I had ever been told I couldn't read, I went to the library and bought it.

At which point I read a lot more Judy Blume.

TK

[geminigirl]

I love that book. And Judy Blume's books in general-I still read them, and enjoy her adult fiction. But Margaret is such a classic-I think even zedrikcayne has read it.

The first book I was told I couldn't read was "Catcher in the Rye"-I was ten when I first read it, at the suggestion of my cousin, and thought it was cool cause it had dirty words. My parents decided it wasn't appropriate and took it away. They didn't try very hard, cause it ended up on a shelf in the basement and I removed it and finished the book.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

The first book I was told I couldn't read was "Catcher in the Rye"

I had that as assigned reading for an English class — 11th grade, I think.

[kellfire.livejournal.com]

Ditto to all!

But I soon found Joy of Sex in a friends mother's bookcase.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

^
Exact book I was going to post about. That was my first.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Forever, by Judy Blume. I remember thinking it made sex sound entirely uninteresting. The euro-erotica I found at home was much better. :)

[geminigirl]

The name Ralph has always made me snicker since I read that book. When I was at Buck's Rock (aka "artfagsummercamp",) my friends and I created a mascot one summer, a banana named Ralph.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That reminds me that I think the first smut I read was a lesbian BDSM short story collection when I was, I kid you not, about 10. I found it at my sister's house. I still have scenes from a couple of the stories branded in my brain, I didn't find it sexy, just weird.

[geminigirl]

Yay Bad Idea Bears!

It's interesting how certain bits of books, and perhaps porn in particular stick in your head. I read an anthology of lesbian stories probably ten years ago, and I remember that there was one really great story that involved a coffee shop, and a rant about women who kept coming in to order chai...I don't remember the story, nor the author nor the book, just that one bit.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I'll jump on the Judy Blume bandwagon. I read Are You There God first, but I think Forever may have been the first I specifically looked through.

Actually, maybe it was the medical books of a doctor family I babysat for. In any case, in the 12-13 range.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Mom's home copy of Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. She was an RN.

[geminigirl]

Dare I ask what you were looking for?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Nothing in particular. I've been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember, and curious about most anything scientific. I happened upon the cross-sectional diagrams and just kept cross referencing from there. I think the first time I did I was 5, maybe 6.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Peyton Place. Pretty racy stuff. I was about 14 or 15.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Do dictionaries count?

[geminigirl]

I don't see why not.

[zurcherart.livejournal.com]

Are you there god it's me margaret

[(Anonymous)]

It was reading Valley of the Horses in sixth grade that clued me in.

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Forever, by Judy Blume. Followed shortly thereafter by the next door neighbour's Hustler?Penthouse mags. Standout issues: the one with the stills from the film version of The Story of O, and the pictures that ended Vanessa William's reign as Miss America.

I was in Grade 6. And now, my punishment is to teach it.

[nooks.livejournal.com]

My Uncle Oswald, by Roald Dahl, wherein the hero starts a business slipping a very powerful aphrodisiac to famous men to steal their sperm and sell it to women with more money than sense who want a baby by, say, Einstein. There was some pretty hot (FSVO) sex in there.

Jaws, too, where one can find an explanation of "AC/DC" (apparently the "DC" is the gay bit, if memory serves) and talk about sex with a chicken.

And I'll never forget one of the books in the Omen series which proved to me that, why yes, you can find books with scenes about sex with a dog (a devil-dog, but still a dog) at the public library. Who knew?

[bicrim.livejournal.com]

That other Judy Blume book, with the boy who looked in his neighbor's window and masterbated. At 11 or so, I thought that was pretty hot.

[geminigirl]

I commented earlier on IRC that no one had mentioned "Then Again, Maybe I Won't" yet. Props to you for being the first.

[lovingboth]

The classic for English males of my age was mail order catalogues. The underwear sections. Although I also enjoyed looking at the household goods sections and wondering what could be used as a SM toy.

The Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Mars' stories had some nice sex scenes in too.