My first book with sex -- okay, telepathic sex by surrogate dragons -- was Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. Perhaps this started me on the road to ruination.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jul 05, 2006 2:07:40 pm PDT #5537 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jesse - Jul 05, 2006 2:10:56 pm PDT #5538 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have this distinct memory of trying to hide the book from my mother, because she was in a phase of reading a lot of YA along with me, and I didn't want her to know I had read it!
Kalshane - Jul 05, 2006 2:11:21 pm PDT #5539 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Can the night shift person please get here so I can go the hell home already? Sheesh.
I have no clue what the first fiction book with sex in it I read was. Though my parents gave me a copy of "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask" to read when I turned 13, so it was probably a lot less shocking when I did encounter it.
Typo Boy - Jul 05, 2006 2:12:18 pm PDT #5540 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah my first sex scene was in the Arabian nights on the family book shelve when I was too young to really understand what was going on.
flea - Jul 05, 2006 2:18:03 pm PDT #5541 of 10002
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I recall being rather mystified by V. C. Andrews' My Sweet Audrina at 12. The girl I rode the bus with was reading it.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 2:29:33 pm PDT #5542 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I encountered sex in literature I wasn't shocked, but it did seem like a whole lot of work and weirdness.
Jesse - Jul 05, 2006 2:33:02 pm PDT #5543 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I think I read dirty books before I came across the sex in the book I can't remember, but they were Dirty Books, not people Doing It in a respectable book I got at the library!
I definitely remember knowing what people did, and not being able to figure out why it seemed like a good idea. Starting with french kissing.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 2:50:09 pm PDT #5544 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The first books I read that had anything to do with sex were texts in the "What to expect when you're expecting" vein. But there were no penises in them. I had a vague notion of fertilisation through implantation, gestation and development through about age 10.
The thing with the penises and the lust and the kissing and the mouths in strange places? Didn't seem so related.
Lee - Jul 05, 2006 3:02:26 pm PDT #5545 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Weird discovery of the day: if I go to la_perkins.livejournal.com, I go to my LJ, as expected, and can see my locked posts and so on, but if I accidentally type in la-perkins.livejournal.com, it takes me to a page of all of my unlocked posts.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 05, 2006 3:04:21 pm PDT #5546 of 10002
What is even happening?
So, a friend of mine just won a round the owrld trip worth 20,000 pounds. We were celebrating. I had beer and some Greek thing. But, holiday! Holy crap!
That's so great, Jars!
(Was the Greek thing Ouzo?)
I think the first books I ever read that had sex in them were the Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes (The Bastard, The Rebels, The Seekers, The Furies, The Warriors, The Lawless). I don't think I read all of each book, either.
flea, I think I read that Audrina book too early. What the hell was the deal anyhow? The girl had a different birthday/age, and I really can't remember anything else about it.