Thank ye!

I was also very precocious child who devoured books: historical romances, John Jakes, Herman Wouk,V.C. Andrews, and a few other authors that escape me at the moment. Oh, and I managed to get my hands on a copy of Fanny Hill, not knowing what kind of book it was initially.

I applaud the parents raising children in the here and now. I can't imagine dealing with email, cell phones, internet access, and social media on top of the already-tough stuff.

Nicky Brendon is not having a good six months. Alcohol and hotels again. [link]

Ah, dammit, NB. I like you too much on BTVS and Criminal Minds.

hat 10 volume set on human sexuality? I read it in private, too.

We had a paperback Home Medical Guide on our bookshelves, and I don't think anybody really looked at it. Then I discovered the fairly exhaustive sexuality chapters in the middle: what are those things and how do they get used. I'd read it on the living room couch, and my mother just figured I was just channeling my "read the encyclopedia" tastes.

Once in high school (a Church-based school) I was reading a SF/F book with the requisite half-naked barbarian woman on the cover in math class after the work was done, and the teacher looked at the cover and raised his eyebrows at me. I said, "I'm not responsible for what they put on the cover," and he just shook his head and walked away. I think no one knew quite what to do with me.

I never read anything explicit about sex until I was in college. As a result I was somewhat clueless. For example, I of course knew that PIV sex involved putting the penis in the vagina, but I did not know that the penis slides in and out of the vagina during sex--I thought it just stayed in place. I didn't learn anything to the contrary until the first time I had sex.

I had the opposite of TOmmy- I was a really late bloomer in real life, but I read so much explicit stuff when I was young, I knew about lots of things (except Toy Boats...)

I have lots of disparate things to talk about-

1. Has anyone purchased SLate Plus? I listen to podcasts ALL DAY, and I need more! I also pretty much prefer the format of something like Culture Gabfest or Pop Culture Happy Hour-- I like discussions. Is there enough extra podcast content?

2. I shared on facebook, but I thought we might have a good discussion here about the hottest US Presidents [link]

hottest US Presidents

I am really bored and annoyed at work. Enough to rate the relative hotness of men who are really not all that hot. Except for Pierce and Obama. Pierce can stay at #1, but Obama should be #2. They should have used a picture of Lincoln where he was younger; he'd be higher on the list. And switch Polk and Grant.

tommy, you're not the ony guy who thought that - my BFF's father did too. How do I know this? The man had no boundaries. Even worse than me; I have some concept of appropriateness, at least.

oatmeal:

My boss just told me "None of it is your fault, really." Aw. "Not your fault" is among my favorite three-word phrases, along with "I love you", "you were right", and "have some chocolate".