# Books You Read When Younger For "Dirty Bits" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732 "2005-09-08T22:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/21 "2005-09-09T00:11:33Z")
I have some steamy memories of **Lady Chatterley’s Lover** , which I found in the garage and devoured in secret. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/22 "2005-09-09T00:23:25Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Another vote for Judy Blume and _any_ of the sex in all the Stephen King’s. Since it was horror, no one really cared. 😃 > > Oh, and of course there was the cartoonish “Sex to Sexty” lying around. Besides that, does National Geographic count? Oh yeah - I owe Stephen King a lot. Only, you try looking up words like “orgasm” and “sodomized” in the dictionary if you don’t already know what they mean. It’s completely useless. Particularly when the World Book Encyclopedia, which with Stephen King and some Sidney Sheldon books I looted from my mom’s shelves is where I learned everything I knew about sex, had no mention of the _female_ orgasm. At all. Whatsoever. (The male one was covered, of course.) I also got some very confusing messages about anatomy from the “Painting” article, let me tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/23 "2005-09-09T00:27:51Z")
I remember reading the James Bond novels as a lad and finding some scenes…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/24 "2005-09-09T00:29:36Z")
I remember cleaning out my uncle’s stuff (he’d left it with us for ten years and never came back for it, so we wound up throwing much of it out) and taking the copy of _The Unbearable Lightness of Being_. _The Journey to the West_ has some very nice bits. Half the monsters want to eat Sanzang; the other half want to sleep with him. There’s a pretty good scene between Raven and Y.T. in _Snow Crash_. _Neuromancer_ is yummy, too. Molly, mmm, Molly. =D ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/25 "2005-09-09T00:32:22Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Pretty much anything by Harold Robbins. Yep. Especially _The Pirate_. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/26 "2005-09-09T00:38:05Z")
_Again, Dangerous Visions_, the anthology by Harlan Ellison. Contained a tale entitled “In the Barn” by Piers Anthony. Hoo-boy!Guy travels to an alternate Earth to investigate human rights abuses, and finds that the dairy industry uses human females as milk cows…specially bred with huge breasts for maximum milk production, and capacious birth canals for easy breeding/delivery. The guy has to milk the cows, breed them, etc. Quite, _quite_ graphic.Re: Hamilton: It’s “Tender _Cousins_”, a photo journal of the film of the same name–rather humorous, actually (the film, I mean). Oh, and you _can_ still find some of his books in “reputable stores,” (B&N comes to mind) as well as on Amazon (although most are out of print these days…but often worth much more than their cover price). Check “25 Years of an Artist,” if you’re inclined to have an current opinion rather than a distant memory. Lots of landscapes and still-lifes as well as his signature portraits. Don’t know why you’d worry about your hard-drive. All perfectly legal (although some people–like Randall Terry, most recently the mouthpiece of Terri Schaivo’s parents–think it shouldn’t be), and _much_ classier than porn…if you even want to make that comparison, which personally I wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/27 "2005-09-09T00:41:54Z")
_Slaughterhouse Five_ – I musta read that thing a dozen times in junior high, but all I remember about it is the ‘dirty’ parts, and the fact that they removed it from the library later because it had those parts. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/28 "2005-09-09T00:47:54Z")
**Lady Chatterly’s Lover** - my ten-year-old eyes just about popped out of my head. “Grown-ups get all the fun! They get to drink alcohol - and they get to talk in Dorset dialect about private parts!” ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/29 "2005-09-09T00:49:09Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > **Lady Chatterly’s Lover** - my ten-year-old eyes just about popped out of my head. “Grown-ups get all the fun! They get to drink alcohol - and they get to talk in Dorset dialect about private parts!” For Dorset, read…Nottingham? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/30 "2005-09-09T00:53:25Z")
**Gulliver’s Travels**. Mostly the Brobdingrag scenes… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/31 "2005-09-09T01:00:33Z")
In 7th grade, every girl in my class room had a copy of _Flowers in the Attic_, and any other book by V. C. Andrews. Damn, those were messed up. ---
**Author:** ![Tixenfleaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tixenfleaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tixenfleaz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/32 "2005-09-09T01:32:45Z")
_Forever_ by Judy Blume. I remember seeing some girls passing it around in junior high, and refusing to let me see it. So of course I immediately procured myself a copy. I pretty much dog-eared that book out of existence. I had read lots of my parents paperback trash before, but this was different. Even as a male I had always identified with Blume’s characters, so I figured that this was what it really must be like. I was a geeky little fellow, and I much preferred accurate erotica over stylized erotica, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/33 "2005-09-09T01:51:23Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > I put it best [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6387675&postcount=30) Hey…I recognize that thread… I’m with **FinnAgain** , as far as books of the non-overtly-pornographic variety. Jean M. Auel’s books had plenty o’ dirty bits. Not so much in _Clan of the Cavebear_ (the only sex was a rape), but _The Valley of Horses_, _The Mammoth Hunters_, and _The Plains of Passage_ had plenty. I haven’t read _The Shelters of Stone_ yet… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/34 "2005-09-09T01:51:44Z")
> [@Dijon Warlock](#): > > \*Don’t know why you’d worry about your hard-drive. All perfectly legal…{snip}…and _much_ classier than porn…if you even want to make that comparison, which personally I wouldn’t. Legal, yes, but I stand by my original description of the content, and it’s not something I’d care to have to explain to my wife. Or boss. Eroticism vs. pornography is probably a subject for a less light-hearted thread, but I’ll note only that Mr Hamilton’s site {I checked it out at home} is pay-per-view. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/35 "2005-09-09T01:55:16Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > For Dorset, read…Nottingham? Darbyshire, I think. I stole my mom’s copy of _The Thornbirds_ when I was 12. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/36 "2005-09-09T01:57:28Z")
> [@Kilvert's Pagan](#): > > The wedding day scene in **The Godfather**. I’m pushing 50 now, and I think I still remember it being on page 38. 😃 In my edition (hardcover) it was page 28. I think it was 38 in paperback. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/37 "2005-09-09T02:12:08Z")
> [@TV time](#): > > Then there was _Brave New World_ where the savage’s mother was, let us say, loose. You slogged through Huxley’s turgid prose in search of illicit horniness? I’m impressed. Horrified, but impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/38 "2005-09-09T02:16:14Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > In 7th grade, every girl in my class room had a copy of _Flowers in the Attic_, and any other book by V. C. Andrews. Damn, those were messed up. Word. V. C. Andrews was better than teeny bopper magazines for horny 12-year-old girls. I actually read that tripe, but folded down the pages with dirty bits for my less literate friends. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/39 "2005-09-09T03:52:30Z")
Judith Krantz’s **Princess Daisy**. The first chapter features the father of the title character being introduced to sex by a voluptuous friend of his mother’s. And oh, man, was that scene hot hot hot when I was boiling in my adolescent hormone stew. I also remember **The Godfather** being pretty exciting. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732/40 "2005-09-09T04:04:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > In 7th grade, every girl in my class room had a copy of _Flowers in the Attic_, and any other book by V. C. Andrews. Damn, those were messed up. Yes! Just the one I was thinking of! The girl in front of me in biology class in 7th grade I was very interrested in, in a confused, pubescent-sort-of-way. She had a copy of Flowers and showed me one of the more graphically racy scenes, then took it away… I remember having some very interresting private fantasy moments for the next few days… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-read-when-younger-for-dirty-bits/320732.md?page=3)