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.

[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

[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. :)

[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.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

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

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

Do dictionaries count?

[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.

[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.