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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That was the only book on the subject of sex ed I found in the local library, that wasn’t loaned out.
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.