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“Baby we’re in love, so it’s only right that we make love” said my 17 year old “boyfriend”.
“But why should we have to ‘make love’ if we already have it?” said the 14 year old me.
This was my first “sex talk”.
He kissed me with the deceit of a serpent’s tongue. Entranced by “I love you’s” and misguided by his words, I surrendered my cherished fruit. Need I say more?
Can someone please explain to me the whole birds and the bees thing? I don't get it.
LAID: Young People's Experiences With Sex in an Easy-Access Culture
I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but I just received and finished my copy of LAID. I know, it took me a month, and my only excuse is that I waited to order my copy until I had visited every one of my local Barnes and Noble and Borders stores to request that a copy be sent to the stores themselves. I never picked them up in the hope that someone wandering the stacks will find the book, purchase it, and request more copies for the store (you’re welcome, Shannon).
So here I am, sitting around the house with fresh thoughts of sex banging around in my head, and I wanted to share a few impressions that I have of the book. First off, I think it’s written extraordinarily well. The stories are hard-hitting and real, and there’s an honestly that’s rare in tales of sex. Sex still tends to be a taboo topic outside of medical discussions, and I thought that the emotional take on most of the situations was a refreshing look at sex and sexuality. I do think that the book would have benefited from a few more-experienced voices—as a slightly older writer for the LAID blog, I found that there was a lot of the folly of youth in the stories. However, considering that the book chronicles young people’s experiences with sex, the lack of an older voice isn’t necessarily a detriment to the overall effect of the book.
