# Books You Read Because You Heard There Were Sex Parts: A Middle School Reminiscence **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144 "2010-02-23T17:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/61 "2010-02-24T21:01:43Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > [ul] > [li]_Valley the Horses_ by Jean M. Auel-- sex style: nonstop marathon (I still can’t say “pleasures” without snickering.)[/li][/ul] For what it’s worth, I’m re-reading this series for the uncountable time. (I’m reading it for the story, not the sex. Plenty of other better sources of good sex text) VOH has a few good sex scenes at the end, but the real sex scene count starts in The Mammoth Hunters, and gets almost too much in Plains of Passage. I don’t count the scenes in Clan of the Cave Bear, as those are rape scenes, not “sex” scenes, and I don’t like that sort of thing. Finding sex scenes in books I started reading at “slightly before age appropriate” certainly sped my desire to read more in my teen years! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/62 "2010-02-24T21:18:21Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > **The dictionary** …the big one in the school libary. That was a wonderful source. Oh, no it isn’t! I remember looking up tons of words that came up in books I read - none of them did ANY good. Imagine looking up “orgasm” if you really didn’t know what one was! You get something like this: –noun 1. the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation. 2. an instance of experiencing this. 3. intense or unrestrained excitement. 4. an instance or occurrence of such excitement. –verb (used without object) 5. to have an orgasm. Well, gee, thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/63 "2010-02-24T21:38:22Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > It took _this long_ to get to IT? > > For me it was slightly different, I didn’t read it because I knew there was sex in it, but just the opposite … my best friend in high school (a girl, actually) gave me it as a gift, I have no idea why she did, I’m not much of a horror novel reader (this remains the only one I’ve read, actually), but I went to reading it. > > All of a sudden, I get to one part … holy crap, there’s sex in here! (I’d found, and visited frequently, my dad’s porno stash, by that point, so it’s not like it was the “coming of age” most of y’all are writing about) And, I read on, “there’s another part with sex! And another! And in most of them, it’s kids! Younger than me!” (Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling good about my virginity at that point). Needless to say, read those parts over and over, but only read the whole book itself one or two more times (wasn’t bad overall for a non-horror fan, I must say). > > Foolish me, when the TV movie came on a few years later, I had to watch it. :smack: (Yeah, like they’re going to show _those_ parts, you moron!) > > I’m convinced to this day, even though I lost touch with her years ago, that my friend didn’t know there was sex in that book. I picked up IT at a flea market when I was a kid, because I’d always liked scary books, and figured an “adult” scary book would be way better than the ones I was already reading. Which turned out to be true, but I also had no idea there would be sex, too. It was an interesting surprise, since I was about 11, and while I knew what sex was, I wasn’t actively seeking it out in books yet. It helped later though, I knew to look in Stephen King books for sex, and my parents knew I read them anyway, so it wasn’t weird when I wanted to buy one. It was a bonus that even when there wasn’t any sex, I still enjoyed the books. I also made a habit of borrowing my sister’s Anne Rice books. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/64 "2010-02-24T21:50:06Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > Pretty much the only reason I read Henry Miller or Anais Nin in high school. You say that like there’s any _other_ reason to read Anais Nin. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/65 "2010-02-25T03:14:55Z")
> [@Winnipeg](#): > > Have I missed it, no one has mentioned “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” my senior school (early 70’s) had 1 copy, it always fell open at the relevant page. 😃 Or even earlier, the copy of _Fanny Hill_ I discovered my parents had when I was twelve. It was . . . opaque. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/66 "2010-02-25T06:27:41Z")
Never really had to resort to reading books for sex scenes, because I had free access to all the smut I wanted – Playboy, Penthouse, and this new magazine that had recently come out called Hustler. I worked on the town garbage truck and it was really amazing the things that people threw away in those days. I’m sure that more than one wife hounded her hubbie into getting rid of his smut collection, considering the number of boxes full of porn we got to pick up almost on a weekly basis somewhere in town. As well, I babysat for the couple next door, and the husband had a huge Playboy collection. I think it was in Grade Eight that a female classmate showed me the scene in _Jaws_ where Brody’s wife is having an affair with Hooper. In time I would also discover Nancy Friday, _The Hite Report_, and _Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex_, but like I say, I never had a problem finding porn magazines. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/67 "2010-02-25T14:57:46Z")
Go Ask Alice. Sex and drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/68 "2010-02-25T15:52:28Z")
_Flowers in the Attic_, as mentioned above. I actually read that whole series, lots of creepy sex. _Love Story_. There was a little bit of an artistically worded sex scene, so I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t more sex. But the book was so good, in the long run, I didn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Torpor\_Beast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@Torpor\_Beast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torpor_Beast)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/69 "2010-02-25T16:50:23Z")
I think the book’s name would translate to “An Illustrated Guide To Enjoyable Sex During Pregnancy” in english. Yeah, there were sex parts. 😃 That was the only book on the subject of sex ed I found in the local library, that wasn’t loaned out. ---
**Author:** ![Torpor\_Beast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@Torpor\_Beast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torpor_Beast)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/70 "2010-02-25T17:03:24Z")
And no, it didn’t leave me with any particular fetishes. 😛 I did move to more diverse literature later. One of the ways me and my friends at the time would get the “literature” was by stealing porn mags from loads of old unsold magazines on their way to be recycled. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-because-you-heard-there-were-sex-parts-a-middle-school-reminiscence/530144/71 "2010-02-25T18:53:33Z")
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