The Most Dangerous Game

I’m so Gen X that The Clan Of the Cave Bear was MANDATORY reading in my AP Bio class in high school. All of it. Unedited. Which on the surface does seem shocking, but since this was the late 80’s, I had, on my own, already read: Judy Blume’s Forever when I was 10, V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In the Attic series when I was around 11-12, Stephen King’s entire library starting at age 13, and since I worked part time in a library for a while, a ton of Harlequin romances and The Joy Of Sex by the age of 16. So while some of my classmates might have been shocked by the graphic nature of Clan Of the Cave Bear, it didn’t phase me a bit. And even more shockingly, no parents came up to protest. They probably weren’t even aware we were reading it, because I know I didn’t tell my parents! Today, that teacher definitely would have been fired for making us read porn, even if the rest of the book was such a fabulous read about anthropology, biology, and the detailed and accurate ways that cavemen existed.