Is it any wonder that she turned into the sex pot, free love, liberal artistic intellectual she was raised to be? At the age of five or six she knew that her dad kept a pile of magazines she was forbidden to look at under his side of the bed.
She also knew about the rubbers in the top drawer of the bedside table… and the douche bag her mother kept under the bathroom sink. She was precocious and seemed to know and understand many things that should have been beyond her ken.
When she was about nine or ten when her dad, being of a libertarian mind, decided she was old enough to look through the magazines. She “read them” as was and is the euphemism under his supervision. She sat in the living room on the floor thumbing through the pictures of all the beautiful women. She read some of the jokes and a few articles. Even though she could read all the words, she really didn’t get some of the content.
Her parents thought she might turn out to be gay, since she spent so much time looking longingly at the photos of the nude women. By the age of thirteen she had begun to make up for her lack of experience. And even though she didn’t go all the way, she was having fun doing everything but. It was at this time The Tropic of Cancer was published and banned in the U.S.
Her dad bought a copy of the book as a protest. It was a big deal. There was a lot of talk about it and the book, a hardback copy, was prominently displayed in the middle of some other classic best sellers he had collected over the years.
She was interested and because of his true and firm belief in non censorship, he let her read it. She read the whole thing, but they were just words to her and she really didn’t understand any of it. In fact, she thought it was a lousy story. But she acted all sophisticated like she really understood it.
She was damned beautiful and sex was all around her; is it an wonder then that she became hyper sexual? She came into the 60’s full speed ahead. She was right out there in front of the sexual revolution. She thinks about her past analyzing herself as a psychologist would.
She decides that these days, the editorials, jokes, and writing in that famous magazine are more interesting than the pictorials of the nude women. She favors the natural look of breasts and such. She grew up dreaming of the beauty of Marilyn Monroe, trying to emulate her, and aspiring to pose nude for Playboy.
#ThankYouHef
(First published 1/2/12)
