I went from never-been-kissed to 3rd base in about 15 minutes at 17...but I'd been reading quite explicit stuff since I was about 7 or 8. But theory is different than practice, yanno? And they say how you imprint on the first person you have your first consensual sexual experience with, and to this day, I looove getting my neck bitten. Man, I had to hide a LOT of hickeys from my parents!
Oh, and masturbating since, I dunno, 10 or 11? I don't even remember. I had read how to do it, and that it was normal and healthy so I was all "Hey! Science says I can do it! Let's see what this thing really is!" And I did it, and it was good.
Although I was terribly private and embarrassed to talk about sex with my parents, I was was extremely liberal in my own mind. And I knew SO MUCH MORE than my friends and classmates who WERE sexually experienced.
When I was a teacher the Health teacher, a guy, was teribly embarrassedr to do the sexuality lectures, so I offered to do them. And these were tough kids, lots of teen pregnancies, mostly Latino kids, so lots of machismo and adolescent sex hormones running hot and heavy, so I got a LOT of questions intended to freak the white female teacher out. Heh. Even in the anonymous written note section of the lecture, I didn't bat an eye at anything.
I got mad street cred from that. And better yet, kids started coming to me with relationship questions and issues they were embarrassed to talk to anyone else about, and that...that felt good. I was able to help.
Oh, and much -ma to you, ND!! Break a leg! Um, with great sound FX!.
ND, how exciting! My fingers are crossed for you.
Sound and mix~ma, ND. I know you'll be fantastic.
Audio ~ma, ND!
I just expressed interest in a Bay Area position. Probably because I have more work than I can handle right now and I'm procrastinating on ALL OF IT.
Thank you folks. This is really for my team. We've got a FOH mixer, monitor mixer, and backline tech working the gig, and then quite a few of my other normal crew helping out and seeing the venue in case we win the contract. I'm just the guy trying to think of all the possible gotchas and trying to make the night go smoothly. I probably won't spend any time behind any of the consoles.
Clan of the Cave Bear.
I was... ten? Eleven? I'd say it was... formative. When I re-read it as an adult it was like an inventory of my kinkier musings.
My sexual misconception was erections. I thought we were dealing with a 90 degree angle away from the body and did not see how that could possibly work. That lasted until my first personal encounter with one.
I had access to the internet from a very early age. We had dial-up when I was 11 or 12, which I recall because I used it for the accelerated learning program's homework. By the time I was 13 I was the savviest person at home or at school regarding the computers/internet.
I was deep into Star Trek RPG and the attendant fanfiction about my characters, getting into some fairly racy and explicit work. I had been reading adult-themed fiction, particularly science fiction, from a very early age. The few times my mother tried to bar me from reading a book, I would sneak in and take it to read for a few hours and then put it back while she was gone until the book was finished.
But that was the Internet of the Nineties, and for all the knowledge I gained and innocence I happily lost, today's internet is several orders of magnitude beyond that.
On the other hand I turned out pretty good, so maybe a little early fanfiction won't hurt?
Wattpad is a pretty curated place to post in, moreso than AO3. But I would suggest, despite myself, that you consider fanfiction.net. The Great Purge, kicking out all the works with adult material, is a few years past now, and probably the commenters around her age group are more focused there. It's a relatively benign to start.
