Posts by Jackie Clark
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
Beautifully put.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Nat,
When I was 14 - speaking of children and their mortification around their parents' relationships - we were having a discussion at school about whose parents did it and whose didn't. I volunteered that mine still did. The others looked at me in horror - but how did I know that? they asked me. Because, I replied, when they are having sex, they shut their bedroom door. Clear signal. Years later, I was telling my Mum about that discussion, and she asked me when I knew what the closed door signified. I think I may have been about 4.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Paul Williams,
That feels like not even a rationalisation, cheers Jackie.
Ah, is that a good thing?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
I delight in hearing new perspectives, and discovering new women writers, (New to me, I mean). And once again, it's all down to you, Emma.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Paul Williams,
I think you just have to do what you think is right, and what you're comfy with, at the time. If you're squirming with embarrassment, it's not going to help anyone, isn it?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Rich Lock,
Oh snap, my love. I was just about to try and find that! Makes me laugh every time.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
so glad that you do it too - I see my job as subversion
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to James Butler,
An old book you say? Ha! How dare you, Sir! My mother bought it brand new for my brothers. My sex education was basically Mum leaving literature lying around for me to read. Oh, and after my deflowering, I came home and she said "You've had sex, haven't you? I hope you're using contraception" and then we had the conversation about the different sorts you could try. I was 18 by this time, so really? A little too late.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Rich Lock,
I obviously have a very vulgar mind. When I looked at that, I thought I was seeing a hedge orgy. And then, I saw the title. Ooops.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Rich Lock,
And some of us feel eternally on the outside. I have always had a sense of otherness - it's not always a bad thing, and you can have a level of comfortable otherness, to be sure. But then there is the general sense of never getting it, and never understanding why you don't quite fit in. I've come to see it as an okay space to be in, but only sometimes. It's why, and people are disbelieving when I say this, I find social interaction with "new" people really difficult. I've learned to cover up my shyness and otherness really well, apparently.