Clan of the Cave Bear. Yeah. Too young.

Jackie Collins The Bitch. At sleepovers. Age 12. Plus The Happy Hooker. Basically, anything naughty we could get our hot little hands on.

Before that, though, it was a lot of skeevy rape culture sci-fi.

AKA, wow, reading Friday was a bad idea when I was 11. And Piers Anthony, what the fuck with the milking machines and the ewwwwwwwww.

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I read Flowers in the Attic when I was around 12 or 13, and by then it was ok. But around the same time I read some book about [trigger warning] child ghosts raping the protagonist, told in graphic detail, and that caused some nightmares. I also read Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse as an adult, and now I can't read Poppy Z. Brite anymore.

A lot of stuff in adult books went right over my head at that age, because I had no frame of reference. I remember re-reading some romantic mysteries many years later and being boggled at what I'd completely glossed over as a kid.

ION, it's a sign of bad things to come when you get stuck in traffic for ten minutes a block from your house, right?

Given that I was writing Batman/Robin (1960s TV versions) when I was 14 and a feral fan, it occurs to me that I'm going to be the worst when it comes to do as I say, not as I do, or if you do, don't tell me and for god's sake, get a beta.

I think I was 9 or 10 when I read Ghost Story - too young to understand what was going on in the sexy bits, so when I asked Mom about them she tore those pages out. But left in everything about Gregory and Fenny Bates, which I can still see in my mind's eye three and a half decades later. Thanks, Mom.

I forgot about Clan of the Cave Bear! My friend and I tried to get them to show the movie in band at the end of the year when all we did was watch movies. Luckily, that did not happen.

I watched Maude when I was nine and ten, and my mom didn't like it but I guess she gave up. Not a big disciplinarian, my mom. She sort-of censored my tv viewing -- nothing "on late" -- but she never censored my reading at all. I think she just had no idea what was actually out there. Hell, she was horrified by the notion of oral sex. I was reading adult-level books in elementary school, and had no restrictions on what part of the library I could roam, so I definitely got ahold of lots of books that were both too scary and too "adult" for me. Just because I CAN read it, doesn't mean I SHOULD...

Rant about shopping websites: If there is a link to a '"shopping bag" I presume clicking on it would reveal the items in my shopping bag. If instead of that, the result is that I see a fraction of those items plus an assortment of "You may also like" items and there is in fact no way to view all the items in my shopping by clicking on the link to "shopping bag". I shall be a bit miffed. If I email the company to inquire precisely how to view the items in my shopping bag and am subsequently informed that the method for doing that is to click on the link to "Check Out", I shall flee from the illogic and cease using that website. If it happens to be for a brand which I love and whose products I use daily, I shall consider writing an actual letter to the president of the company decrying said lack of function and logic.

Colon or semicolon? I can't remember.

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