![]() ![]() ![]() These were the well-thumbed paperbacks passed around with dog-ears to mark the best pages. ![]() My friends and I favored books with depictions of sex that acknowledged our biology and provided a practical kind of education. In novels, I found more varied perspectives. I had trouble grasping how polishing my exterior might lead to any kind of interior satisfaction. Magazines for women were filled with tips about how to appear more attractive. The sex scenes I did manage to see were nearly always presented from a man’s point of view. The Internet was not available movies were age-restricted in theatres and prudishly edited when shown on television. For a teen-age girl who wanted to understand sex, the nineteen-eighties, in Canada, were a vast, barren land. ![]()
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