How many of you were permanently scarred by coming across this in your parents’ bedroom as a kid?

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Disastrous_days272@reddit

I don't think scarred so much as engaged and fascinated... I was always the kid that wanted to know how everything worked so finding this was like finding a how to fix manual for a V8 motor... The one that really traumatized me, and not all of it but just some of the stories, was the book, "My secret garden" by Nancy Friday... I remember vividly one of the fantasies that really threw me off at 9 or 10 years old was from a woman who had a fantasy of being raped by a gorilla... I believe there was also another one that went into graphic detail about pleasuring a horse or a donkey

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Grouchy-Beginning993@reddit

Me! Such hairy illustrations. Then there's one of a guy licking a hairy armpit. I was like, "WTF?! Is this what adults do?"

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

Nope never found that book. Did find an erotica novel that included the woman having sex with a horse, which as a horse girl was scarring. Also the requisite playboy and playgirl! In the bedsides.

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Toblogan@reddit

You wanna see the donkey show?! 🤣😂

It's from a movie...

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Zeqhanis@reddit

I have a worse one. My mom ordered a veiny, vibrating, Caucasian-colored dildo and a VHS by sex therapist Dr. Ruth (the lady pictured below).

How do I know this? She was too embarrassed to order it under her name, so she ordered it under my name (her son).

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Did you get to umm, open the present?

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Zeqhanis@reddit

That's precisely how I knew what it contained. I very carefully taped it back up.

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Zeke688@reddit

Wow, you must’ve been so excited to see what was in that box. 😬

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Disastrous_days272@reddit

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Jack in the box 😂

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

Did you act surprised when you opened it up for your birthday a few weeks later?

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Relevant-Bit-7394@reddit

Oh wow, now the collection is complete.

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VaselineHabits@reddit

I'm dying!

Did you ever bring it up to her? Or she knew you knew?

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

🤣😂

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surewhynotokaythen@reddit

The one that got me and made me cringe: The Big Toe... not shaming anyone into that, but I want no toes around that area, thank you.

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Toblogan@reddit

From athlete's foot straight into jock itch all in one motion?

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Lamplight_119@reddit

Ummmm WHAT?! Where was it entering?! 😂😂😂😂😂

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surewhynotokaythen@reddit

Just... use your imagination and you are probably right.

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LauraPa1mer@reddit

I came across it. I probably shouldn't have but it was a tame introduction to sex.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Considering what kids are seeing now online it’s honestly tame and wholesome. All about giving pleasure to one another.

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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

👋

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

This one emoji comment combined with your user name has me 💀💀

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sk3pt1c@reddit

Oh no, your parents had sex? 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

My parents had a book with anatomical drawings and showed me how everything works when I was like 5 or something, it’s called education. Hello from Greece.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Oh I know. It’s just meant to be tongue in cheek. I obviously wasn’t traumatized and thinking back I’m glad they had it. I’m sure it was good for their sex life although I’m 1000% sure my mom bought it.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Scarred, are you kidding? I came across it (in the attic) at about 14. Never spent so much time in the attic before.

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DisastrousTurn9220@reddit

Yeah, my fifth grade Girl Scout troop had an exclusive VIP showing when my friend Annie found her mom's copy lmao

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retribution81@reddit

There was a hand-drawn picture of a bearded man licking an armpit. I was deeply repulsed.

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sweetpea122@reddit

Has anyone ever accidentally tasted deodorant? Only me? Okay. Well it tastes terrible and has a weird texture. Not sexy

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storyofohno@reddit

Wait how does one accidentally taste deodorant? I'm genuinely curious!

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boundlesschagrin@reddit

Stray a little too arm-side while playing with breasts or date someone who uses deodorant in nonstandard places. (Cleavage, groin, etc.)

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highpriestess420@reddit

When I was maybe 4 I wandered into my parent's bathroom and found what I thought looked like some kind of big white candy encased in plastic--took a big bite out of my mom's Secret white deodorant stick 🤢

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URfwend@reddit

I've told the story before but I'll give the short version. I was hitting my homemade bong in my room and I could hear my step dad coming so I sprayed old spice deodorant everywhere and then since I knew he would be checking my breath I sprayed that shit all over my mouth. Right as I was putting the cap on and setting it down he came in. Gave me the tenth degree. Did a quick search and came to inspect me. He was definitely suspicious. Asked to smell my breath. Took a couple whiffs and then said goodnight. That deodorant was absolutely awful. The film and texture it left in my mouth was super hard to get out because it's made to be resistant to water and all the science.

Crazy kids and their wild antics. That would be one of the last clashes with him before I got kicked out. But jokes on him because I got to learn how to be a better Dad figure than he was.

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brodyqat@reddit

Yessss particularly if there's antiperspirant also your tongue gets all desiccated afterwards blech

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mayhemkb@reddit

As I recall there was actually a comment in the book relating to the photo saying something like a mouthful of deodorant tastes terrible and it’s best to skip it for sex. Lol!

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sweetpea122@reddit

Exactly! Its like a weird coating on your tongue gross

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CookieBarfspringer@reddit

The couple in this book didn’t really strike me as heavy deodorant users.

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sweetpea122@reddit

Ohhh. They were teens of the 70s. Makes sense

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BringBackHUAC@reddit

My late cat LOVED licking deodorant off of me. I got pitnip or something going on.

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Red_Car_Singer@reddit

This is apparently back in fashion amongst the fetishizers. No shade, just not my jam.

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Expensive_Air965@reddit

It's not just the fetishizers women are repulsed by the Epstein files and no longer want to look like children and babies. Real women have hair and it's time that men stopped looking at women like we're still children. Maybe if we give men some real women to look at they'll stop lusting after 12-year-olds. I was recently in a comment section for a hair trimmer called The Peach Buzz or something like that? And the entire comment section was filled with women saying don't advertise this saying that you'll be as smooth as a baby or you'll look like a baby seal because we're sick of being compared to babies. Men should be wanting real women, not children.

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HistoryGirl23@reddit

Yeah, I thought that was gross too.

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Potential-Yoghurt245@reddit

I remember this picture, 🫩😒

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storyofohno@reddit

I.. what.

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SteakJones@reddit

That bearded guy got sooooo much pencil drawn bush.

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

A super hairy armpit

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chekhovsdickpic@reddit

Oh, so that’s where that one comes from.

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1877KlownsForKids@reddit

First thought: bewebs Second thought: Are they always that hairy? Third thought, years and years later: Ewww, is that book why I'm here?

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SourcePrevious3095@reddit

Depends, are you an eldest? If yes, then no. If no, then yes.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Haha I think the scarring came from having to think about my parents having sex.

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chainmailler2001@reddit

That bit of scarring was from finding my parents container of Strawberry flavored Lick-a-Pussy creme stuffed down the side of their water bed...

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miranym@reddit

My parents had a home library and ONE book was sitting on top of other books with only the bottom page edges visible. If it had been shelved normally I never would've read the spines on that shelf to see what was there, but the odd placement turned it into a beacon and so of course I pulled it down to check...

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oedipa17@reddit

Your parents may have placed it there for you to find, hoping to impart valuable information while avoiding awkward conversations.

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miranym@reddit

I doubt it, it was on the topmost shelf in a corner full of books my mom knew I didn't care about. I almost couldn't reach it the first time I saw it.

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mydeadbody@reddit

My best friend and I found it in her neighbor's bookcase when we were pet sitting their cat while they were out of town. Her mom came over to check on us because she wondered why we were taking so long, and we had to quickly shove it back into the bookcase. We were so afraid that we had bent the cover or put it back in the wrong place.

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Mediocre-Cry5117@reddit

I had half. My brother had the other half. We didn’t figure it out until our 20s, having one of those “weird childhood shit” conversations.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

Okay this is legitimately hilarious 🤣

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Plane-Post-7720@reddit

You had Pop-Pop in the attic?

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TangFiend@reddit

I bet you are a decent lover now, since you studied up.

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Marchesa_07@reddit

No, the book they scarred me was The Miracle of Life. . .and then I was re traumatized in health class in 7th grade by the movie of the same name.

Absolutely made me childfree.

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FoofaFighters@reddit

How many times?

Ayoooo

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JediBeagle1@reddit

Hahaha! I found my mom’s copy in my attic too. Also age 14 or 15. I was kinda repulsed at first but couldn’t stop myself from taking trips to the attic to check it out until one day I just took it and hid under my bed.

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Visible_Window_5356@reddit

My parents had two copies. Also Dr Ruth's game of good sex. Now I talk to people about their sex lives for a living.

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RidingTheSpiral1977@reddit

Cover to cover baby

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Formal_Ground6513@reddit

Right? My parents didn't have this but, a friend's parents did.....we'd sneak it off the bookshelf and look at it for hours everytime I slept over!

I do remember thinking, "I hope I don't have to deal with a beard one day" because, the couple illustrated were hippies. I have since gotten over my fear of beards (but, I'm still more of a mustache kind of girl).

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Into-the-stream@reddit

My parents kept it on the book shelf, in *the family room* in the basement. This was where we played Nintendo and had friends over to lounge around and watch tv. They were otherwise pretty regular people, but yeah we found other stuff in the basement too. How do you just "forget" where this stuff is?

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IkidIgoat@reddit

My spouse has a similar story and it has worked out great for me, I’m pretty glad he learned about sex from this book and not Playboy or Hustler or Maxim.

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False-Cookie3379@reddit

Same here!!!!

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balding_git@reddit

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bansheeonthemoor42@reddit

I was all about looking at that book. It was so much better than just READING sex scenes in every book I could find.

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Ok-Change6854@reddit

Haha! I found it in the attic too!

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Lost-Drama8767@reddit

them pages got real sticky

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Everyday_everyway@reddit

My mother gifted me a copy and signed the inside cover “have fun - be safe! Love MOM” 😂

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sfcameron2015@reddit

Omg. Found it on my parent’s bookcase in 3rd or 4th grade. My friend was over for a sleepover so we snagged it and took it into my room, but mom walked in before we could really get too much into it. I threw it under the bed when she walked in and when I went to retrieve it later, it was gone. Never saw it again!

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Pixie-Moxie@reddit

Why did I think hiding things under my bed was such a good spot?! No surprise that the book I found in the back of a drawer in the downstairs bathroom and hid under my bed disappeared without a word. I wish I remembered the title so I could find it again. I learned my lesson though, and when I later found the Joy of Sex in the upper shelf of a closet, I would only look at it when my parents weren’t home and return it to its original hiding place. Much better than the very limited sex ed in school!

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Toblogan@reddit

You were close... It's under the bed in a hole cut into the box spring. I had so much contraband stuffed with in there!! 🤫

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veiled-nomore99@reddit

I wish! It was in my grandparents bookcase. Not hidden, at all. Lol

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Cool_Jelly_9402@reddit

Haha it didn’t traumatize me but how hairy everyone was funny to me

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mrs_hippiequeen@reddit

the image where the man was tonguing the woman's very hairy pits burned straight into my young brain

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

We all needed to see this since you did, is that the case?

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Toblogan@reddit

Sharing is caring!!

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

I remember that book had a LOT of pube and pit hair

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Oh wow. My parents had the version with photos.

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

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rigidlikeabreadstick@reddit

I had no idea this image was so traumatizing to all of us. It pops into my head unreasonably often.

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

So... so you went AND FOUND IT ON THE INTERNET and posted it for us? Was that a productive use of your time, I ask you?

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mrs_hippiequeen@reddit

i am putting off going into the -10° walk-in freezer as long as possible, so it was productive to me.

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

I congratulate you for ~~sharing~~unleashing this on the internet.

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ThePhantomPooper@reddit

Same. Still gives me the ick.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

terrifying

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That1Master@reddit

Hahaha omg. SO sexy

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mcfetrja@reddit

Sir Paul! Those had better be Linda’s pits.

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

I remember her standing up and him trying to eat her out. She was looking down with a very disinterested face.

And as I got older and was a teen having done that stuff with other teen guys, this what I thought you just looked like because I certainly wasn't enjoying it either.

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PercentageCreepy2653@reddit

I know exactly what picture you’re talking about. I tried posting it here and even blurred out the naughty bits but it got removed for being NSFW lol.

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

Awww man, thanks for trying. Do you have a link to it anywhere?

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PercentageCreepy2653@reddit

Sorry no. I have the book because funny enough my sister and I were cleaning out my parents old storage locker after my mom passed. We both thought it was hysterical and kept saying, “wtf” so I kept it lol.

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

Imgur upload to get a link? Sorry if this is too much, I'm just dying to see if it's like I remembered it.

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PercentageCreepy2653@reddit

I don’t know how to use Imgur 🤪 don’t judge. I tried it though. See if you can click on it, hopefully I did it right. If not I can always PM it to you here if you’d like

https://imgur.com/a/6tNw2ue

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

YES!!! THANK YOU!!! SO MUCH!

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DeepestKnee@reddit

“Meh, but keep at it”

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

https://archive.org/details/josp00comf

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mrs_hippiequeen@reddit

it may have been in the second volume 🤭

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meltedchocolatepants@reddit

No, I just can't find a full book of all the images or just that image. I only found occasional pictures from it.

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Expensive_Air965@reddit

My parents had this book. They had the Kamasutra and my father had A N Roquelaires (anne rice) Sleeping Beauty series. My dad also had every Playboy penthouse, variations, Hustler jug and porn tapes you could possibly imagine. I spent my entire childhood trying to avoid every closet in my house. It was like a porn den.

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RockingLaurie@reddit

My then 13yo daughter found our copy (updated version) and shared it with a friend. The mother of this friend called me to chew me out for having “pornography” in the house. I explained what it was they actually looked at and that “if they are tall enough for the shelf, they have access to the books on the shelf, and be glad they never went into my closet.”

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

FFS people need to understand that just because there was nudity and sexual acts depicted doesn’t mean that it is pornography.

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BlueWarstar@reddit

You were allowed in your parent’s bedroom?

That was a no fly zone unless asked to come in.

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

The one I found was a lot more informative...with photos.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Oh I assumed this is the one with photos. Are there different versions?

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Wapiti_whacker82@reddit

I should have clarified. I didn't find The Joy of Sex. I found another, similar book...with more graphic photos.

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Godawgs1009@reddit

The lust of fuck?

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

The Glee of Fornication

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Funandgeeky@reddit

What I Did With Your Mother, Trebek!

-by S. Connery

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brainvheart143@reddit

I’ll take The Rapists for $200

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highasspriestess@reddit

how about Anal Bum Covers for $600?

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Zeke688@reddit

Nah, gotta go with ‘The Penis Mightier’ for $200

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Neonlikebjork@reddit

lol Ape tit always gets me

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Daily Double!

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Holiday-Tradition343@reddit

I’d bet a years’ supply of Penthouse that it was the same one I found in my parents’ closet, it was called ”Making Love”.

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Grirgrur@reddit

Mine had a ‘naked yoga’ book. From the 70’s, if the colours and font choice were any indicators. So much pubic hair….

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lordskulldragon@reddit

My aunt gave this and the sequel, More Joy, to me when I was a teen. Definitely wasn't scarred.

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Corporate-Scum@reddit

Definitely happened.

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Nyotree-001@reddit

My grandparents had this book… let me tell you not something I wanted to thinking about…

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callmepbk@reddit

My mum died recently and my sister and I (both xennials) were clearing out her clothes when we found this in the bedside table drawers. We agreed mutually that we did not see it. Did not see what, you might ask? Didn’t see anything.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Awww. My condolences on your loss. ❤️

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Quandary37@reddit

My in laws gave my wife and I a copy of this book on our wedding night,

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Honestly the sound kind of cool.

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cigarandcreamsoda@reddit

A bit from The Wonder Years is that the boys stole it from a book shop and the mom found them with it only to get on to them for going through her things in her bedroom.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Haha! We all really had the same childhood.

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cigarandcreamsoda@reddit

I was thinking about The Wonder Years the other day and that it makes me nostalgic but not for the time period it was set in (because I wasn’t alive for that) but rather for the decade in which it aired, the 80’s.

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SirStocksAlott@reddit

What would you do…

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fannyalgerpack@reddit

A Wonder Years made today would start in a post 9-11 world. I forgot to ask if you were sitting down first

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Bigbigjeffy@reddit

Oh ffs, that’s not something I want to hear at 2:31am while I can’t go back to sleep.

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CrouchingDomo@reddit

I think I may be entitled to financial compensation 🫠

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CookieBarfspringer@reddit

It was a different book, but similar vibe (Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex by David Reuben). TWY season one was still the ‘60s

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Formal_Ground6513@reddit

Omgggg, I totally forgot about that episode! What a memory!

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

“It’s not enough that you boys have this book, but what are you doing going through my drawers anyways?!”

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

oh this is an excellent twist.

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funsizejj@reddit

So much body hair! 😆

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sweaterbuckets@reddit

That shit was on the bookshelf in the living room.

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MassiveMeatHammer@reddit

My mom had the kama sutra with pictures

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its_raining_scotch@reddit

The Kama Sutra is the other version of this experience, with the same teenage WTFs when looking at the pics and going "wait, we're supposed to have sex like that??" and then you eventually kind of try it and decide whoever wrote that book was likely a weirdo and probably a virgin because none of it makes any practical or pleasurable sense.

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spuldup@reddit

Yep, that's the one I found at her bedside, completely unhidden beside a half full rum and coke..

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

My parents had that one, too. So much bush it would have pleased the Knights who say Ni

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FengSushi@reddit

My mom had both

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Consistent-Road-7414@reddit

Massivemeathammers mom = GOAT

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Micahisaac@reddit

Oh we all know that

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FAHQRudy@reddit

Upvotes to both of you. 🥂

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biggspeed46@reddit

Lmao! I took my parents book but I don't hide it. It proudly shines brightly during th golden hour on my own bookshelf

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Is this the one with photos? That’s the one my parents had.

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biggspeed46@reddit

Yes it is! LOL

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australian_babe@reddit

Yeah, no not scarred at all. This was an early introduction into sex for me for sure. I still remember the page 64, the flaccid penis, that really worked for me.

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sunblossom6868@reddit

This is great😆

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Existing_Explorer_10@reddit

This unlocked a memory of me and my friend finding this in my mom’s room and us cringing at all the body hair.

Another memory of same friend receiving a book on childbirth from her hippie neighbor when she was pregnant. It included drawings and labels including the word “taint”.

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EBMille4@reddit

My mom only had the Joy of Cooking

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chainmailler2001@reddit

Better that than "To Serve Man"...

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

The gateway book. 😁

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Colossus-of-Roads@reddit

Saucy!

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plantverdant@reddit

The four mother sauces, in fact!

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

There's an edition that includes "Whale". In the Fish section.

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cibolaburns@reddit

I have the one that includes squirrel - never checked for whale!

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EBMille4@reddit

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RedSolez@reddit

Same 😂

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KaOsGypsy@reddit

Ah yes, The Joy Of Cooking, I'm pretty sure %95 of our "old family recipes" are just copied straight from that book.

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banality_of_ervil@reddit

My mom had that too. Kinda wish she'd tried to read it at least once

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VisibleCoat995@reddit

No.

But this one did!

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Antique_Emphasis_962@reddit

Good book. Funny movie.

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BrittaUnfiltered67@reddit

I worked at a thrift shop for six years in the media section. So many of these came in and they were all stained red and smelled odd

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emsumm58@reddit

not scarred. inspired.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Honestly better to learn from this than porn.

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IkidIgoat@reddit

There’s the attitude we’re looking for

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Ok-Fishing-7984@reddit

If I found this Id be keeping it

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

I did once find my dad’s playboys and hid them under my bed when I was like 8 or so. The cleaning ladies found them and gave them to my mom. I denied putting them there lmaooo.

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AnimegamiJewelia@reddit

That wasn’t nearly as bad as the Hustlers in the hatchback. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Dang. Not even hidden away in the attic. Just raw dogging it in the hatchback. 😅😅

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Selmarris@reddit

No. My parents had the Tim and Beverly LaHaye one: the Act of Marriage.

Please join me in a rousing chorus of barfs.

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madogvelkor@reddit

At 12 I came across their college textbooks on human sexuality. And thus became the most knowledgeable and nerdiest kid in class. No one believed me about anything because I only knew technical terminology. I don't know what a blowjob is but let me tell you about fellatio and cunniligus.

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Mungo1977@reddit

At 12 I came across their college textbooks on human sexuality.

Bet that was hard to clean up....

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takeaDip48@reddit

Scarred is not an adequate representation of horror and humiliation simultaneously felt when I first saw it in the bookcase in my grandparents study.

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apresmoiputas@reddit

Bedroom? It was in the living room's bookcase on the top shelf. I was a latch key kid and discovered it at 6 or 7. A step ladder and my curiosity made me aware of a lot of things in those book cases.

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pensiverebel@reddit

nope. if my parents had any sex books, they made sure they stayed well and truly hidden. but I don’t think that was their thing. too conservative and Christian for that.

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Krystalmyth@reddit

I feel like I'm one of the few people I've known that was never bothered by the idea of their parents having sex lol. Always thought that was kind of weird. Some kids had parents that didn't even sleep in the same room, or even lived together. I'd be pretty chill that they read stuff like that.

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Silly_Sherbet5543@reddit

I grew up with this in the family book shelf. Very graphic, very unsettling as a small child lol

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MotorCycologist@reddit

Finding the book is one thing. Finding their handwritten notes & corrections in the margins is another!

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Not the annotated version! 🤣😂

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PNW_Uncle_Iroh@reddit

I came across this as a kid. Why would it scar you? I remember it being pretty tame and informative.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

I think it was more about realizing my parents had sex.

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Status-Hovercraft784@reddit

The pictures were so lame and underwhelming. But the trauma happened when I imagined my very own parents doing these utterly-vanilla sex moves, and ewww noooo no no no.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Same. lol

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changopdx@reddit

My religious studies textbook in college was called The Joy of Sects.

Also my wife's maid of honor gifted us a copy. It's still in the garage somewhere.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Hahaha I love when academics have a sense of humor.

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chriscbr500r@reddit

I learned respect for women and how to make love from this book. Scarred? No.... Educated? Very yes!

It also helped to offset the unrealistic depiction of sex in pornography.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

I was more joking about having to think about my parents having sex. But yeah, in the grand scheme of things, this was much better than porn for learning about sex.

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

Came across this, the kama sutra, and some erotic novels in my parent's night stand. So much hair in those pictures...

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Any_Guard_7955@reddit

It's not just that I found my parents' copy. It's that they both look almost identical to the people in the illustrations. That's what broke my brain.

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NurseCait@reddit

Yeeeees. But more fascinated than scarred.

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yourmom_ishere@reddit

Hahahaha. I can’t believe there’s so many of us.

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Radiant_Bluebird4620@reddit

no, but my sister was unfortunate enough to come home from work early. She still won't sit on their couch, and its a new couch now

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DangerousLoner@reddit

So. Much. Hair! Also the chapter “Foursomes or Moresomes” was an eye opener.

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highpriestess420@reddit

Found it under my parent's bed, don't know how they figured out I'd read it but the next time I saw it was in a box on our lawn for a garage sale 🤣

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RogerClyneIsAGod2@reddit

So.

Much.

Wookiebush.

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CombatDeffective@reddit

It... it wasn't my parent's....

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high_everyone@reddit

I grew up in Texas, so for me it was my dad’s porn stash (including Hustlers and a Supergirl magazine with John Holmes) and asking him why he had a wooden phallus in his dresser drawers.

Don’t even get me started on when we bought a VCR.

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RedRust@reddit

Lol Waldenbooks

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MorrighanAnCailleach@reddit

Das me! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 I ssw BUSH!

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Careful-Use-4913@reddit

Not this one. For me it was Our Bodies Ourselves. I learned A LOT.

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throw20190820202020@reddit

Thanks for putting that back in my brain 🤮🤮🤮

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Somebody_or_other_@reddit

I took it to school in year 4 and showed everyone

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

One of my ex's found this book in his parents position.... I am certain that this boom along with other devices is what taught him to be SO good at sex. Because it has been about 28 years and I can still remember certain things that leave ne weak.

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blanksix@reddit

I had access to a while library of shit that I shouldn't have as a kid. This was in there next to some older playboys and, oddly, a medical anatomy book. The shit I "learned" from this book gave me some weird ass expectations about what was going to happen later. I wouldn't say scarred, but definitely gave me some hangups.

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Outrageous_Talk9247@reddit

My parents had that book on the bookshelf in our family room. When my older sister and I were 7 and 5 years old, our babysitter showed us the whole book. We were definitely a little traumatized!

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Maniac1978@reddit

“The guide to getting it on” and “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” made me into the sexual tyranasour you see before you today.

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jackofallsomething1@reddit

Nope. Went through the whole thing shocked at a sleepover

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crazy_joe21@reddit

Not I! But I did find some forbidden VHS tapes!

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TreysToothbrush@reddit

My neighborhood bestie & her brother went with me & my brother to vacation bible school every summer. But they weren’t religious so they always borrowed a bible for the day from our shelf. One year, my bestie’s younger brother grabbed THIS off the shelf thinking it was one of our bibles because the word Joy was so big & the hardcover was white. It was about half way through the day they called home & my mom had to come make a scene. I always thought it was secretly hilarious though I couldn’t say it aloud. Christopher - - if you’re out there that was hella funny if you did that on purpose. Hope you’re okay.

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DStew713@reddit

Ours was in the basement. And believe me, I came across it many times.

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shyguy8254@reddit

So, what you're saying is that the pages got stuck together fairly quickly...lol 🤪😆😂

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Reasonable_Effort_@reddit

Grandparents. 🤢

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Zytharros@reddit

No, but we did receive it as a wedding present from my in-laws.

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8KUHDITIS@reddit

The Kama Sutra, not sure which one i was about 15 - 16 circa '96, I damn near

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NeverEndingCoralMaze@reddit

This plus the back massager

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KW5625@reddit

Not that, but the book "where did I come from" and 1970's hand drawn medical textbooks.

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rjcpl@reddit

Right with his complete Playboy collection in banker’s boxes, some Penthouse, and the good explicit stuff, High Society. As well as a bunch of VHS tapes. Collection so large there was no real hiding it. Friends that discovered this dubbed my dad the porn king. 😂

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Bubbly-Stretch8975@reddit

Do we have the same dad? Are you my brother?

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Stardustchaser@reddit

70s bush 👀

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

Thanks for reminding me that I’d found my parents’ copy. I’d forgotten that memory. Totally happy to have remembered that find. 😂😭💀

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VashMM@reddit

They didn't have this.

Unfortunately, when I was like 13 or 14, I did find the drawer full of various vibrators and dildos that they had.

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BuckyLaroux@reddit

I found that in my dad's office when I was 10.

I thought it would be really cool to bring it to school on the last day of 5th grade.

I showed it to a bunch of boys thinking they would be very impressed and think I was some kind of seductress.

One of them told the teacher. My parents were very pissed.

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Hyphum@reddit

Read it in the library with my first partner- not particularly scarring, but I was grown

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Batafurii8@reddit

Ha! Definitely found this in the towel closet on accident and it was gross and cringe but it was tame compared to real life in our house 🤮

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wikkibird@reddit

Oh, my God I thought I imagined this book and finding it. I was so grossed out that my dad just had it laying around for me and my siblings to find.

Yeah…

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IndigoStef@reddit

Mine had a weird massage book lol but they probably had this too.

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hairylegz@reddit

Mine was "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But were Afraid to Ask)". When I found and read that book I was way too young. It did, however, give me an advantage when I would encounter non-conventional sexual stories as a teen. Where my friends would all be shocked and a little confused, I'd be like 'meh' because none of these 'shocking' stories even came close to some of the scenarios in that book.

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ShortRub7942@reddit

How did we all found the same book at some point in our lives in our parents bedroom. I remember my dad figure out how was reading it and sat me down to have “the talk” and I said “ OK that one question do you have?” true story. He left the room and we’ve never talked about it since.

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pop5656@reddit

My folks had “the tao of love and sex” with some lovely Japanese illustrations of some serious bonage.

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Birdsonme@reddit

Yeah, at grade school age I didn’t want to think about my parents doing any of that. It was a disturbing find.

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Acceptable_Class_576@reddit

Try Grandparent's house. Both volumes.

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wonderful_rush@reddit

My mother(s) had "best lesbian erotica" lol

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SteakJones@reddit

Man… my dad had a nudie mag bag under the bed. Your typical playboys for sure, but there were a few hustlers and something SUPER hardcore called “Puritan” - Eye opening for sure!

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maringue@reddit

The book wasn't so bad. The huge dildo next to it was a much, much different story.

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poplartwin@reddit

I found that shit in my GRANDPARENTS bedroom, they were in their 80s

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piper_squeak@reddit

Mom pulled this out when my older sibling brought up 69. She was hoping the book would help with the explanation.

69 was not covered.

She drew the numbers, then added faces. The faces were both smiling super huge. The drawing was still between the pages of the book when I found it years later.

I've never laughed so hard in my life.

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X2946@reddit

Not as scarred is finding their BDSM trunk. It was filled with what appeared to be homemade tapes.

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HobbiesLastLimb@reddit

My parents had all three volumes right next to the encyclopedia and the SNES. It was their lazy way of not having to have the talk with us knowing damn well my siblings and i would read em.

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funkoelvis43@reddit

Same. I got to break it to my little brother a few years ago that they’d left it easy to find on the bookshelf on purpose. He was shocked

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sleigh_all_day@reddit

Ha - jokes on you! There was no joy in our house.

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SlackerDS5@reddit

Not even. I was the nerdy kid with a bike and a library card. Tig o bitties in National Geographic was just the beginning of my awakening. That book was tame by the time I was in middle school.

My dad bumbling through the birds and the bees talk was hilarious. Eventually i just asked him to stop and finished the convo for him.

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Sam_Boundy1984@reddit

Never happened. But I found a copy in a book shop that was an updated version with photographs instead of drawings. This was the 90s, so it was the closest thing to porn that I'd seen at the time. Life changing.

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Ipauper@reddit

Worse- top drawer of the desk looking for a scrap of paper; grabbed and unfolded a xeroxed copy of how to use one of those macramed hanging chairs as a sex swing 🤢🤮

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Dogforsquirrel@reddit

Definitely was not scared. So many of my questions were answered.

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pigspoon874@reddit

Friend's parents bedroom. She shared the trauma

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sicksixgamer@reddit

It wasnt just me????

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purpleWord_spudger@reddit

My dad kept his copy on the third shelf from the bottom in the livingroom. It was probably a bit much to read at 8

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Necessary-Party5525@reddit

Not this but I discovered a "Christian" sex kit among the bookshelf in my parents' bedroom. It contained a workbook that had exercises where my parents had to write out fantasies, what they liked, stuff like that. Why oh why did I read through it?!

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OpeningPublic@reddit

100% me

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LiminalSapien@reddit

Bro my parents displayed it on their book case for all to see.

Fucking losers.

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Consistent-Road-7414@reddit

Scarred…and thrilled 🤩

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GonnaGoFat@reddit

I’m surprised seeing such hairy drawn people at a young age didn’t give me a hairy woman kink.

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Stardustquarks@reddit

Fucking “sauces and pickles”

Wtf???

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blahblahsomebody@reddit

I found that at my uncle’s house and Ocean-11’ed that thing home 😂

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Conscious_Tennis6632@reddit

At 15, I won a game of Trivial Pursuit with my extended family by naming this book. The remainder of the family reunion was…awkward 😬

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Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit

I found a copy of this in the joists of my basement when we moved into our house. Previous owner forgot about it.

Should I ship it to her?

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elevencharles@reddit

Bedroom? My parents were old hippies and it was on the living room bookshelf.

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

My shittiest tattoo (a nude woman with fairy wings kneeling before a sword) was partially traced from the female dominant illustration

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JoshDunkley@reddit

Scarred? I have passages memorized. I stole my mom's copy from her bedside table like... 40 years ago? I actually think I still might have it somewhere.

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RobertBorden@reddit

My love of bush probably stems from this book.

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Consistent_Rabbit514@reddit

My parents were therapists. I learned all about sex from “The History of Sex”.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

I wish it was in a parent's bedroom. My friend's family left this on the coffee table. The same friend wasn't allowed to do anything. No after school activities, no hanging out with the neighborhood kids, no parties, no after school jobs. Nothing until out Jr year then they still didn't let her go very many places.

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Rosey_Posey82@reddit

Except it was in my grandparents room 😬

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WyrdMannaz@reddit

My grandma had it in the top dresser drawer in the guest bedroom.

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drudman6@reddit

Yes, but this one even more.

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brodyqat@reddit

Oh I grabbed "the secret garden" by Nancy Friday thinking it was THE OTHER SECRET GARDEN and boy howdy was I confused. And then intrigued.

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TwixorTweet@reddit

My grandmother bought this for my parents ahead of their wedding and wrote an inscription for them. Gotta love Euro mindset.

I joked with my mom she should do the same for my partner should we be able to get married. He's the black sheep from a waspy Evangelical family. So it would be an epic gag gift

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Surprisingly it was British. I know.

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skyHawk3613@reddit

My parents had “The Joy of Sex” and part 2…”More Joy”

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Nope. It was pretty tame.

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Own_Catch6231@reddit

I agree. It was on our bookshelf in the living room as our parents lazy way to have the sex talk. All 4 of us would get a good giggle out of that book and make fun of our parents. Ended up making THEM hella uncomfortable. Good fun

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

It was decidedly on the “sex-ed” side, with a touch of pencil sketches redolent of the 70s.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

Ahhh the one I’m referring to had full nude pics. Maybe it was the workbook version. ;)

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missnickypearl@reddit

Maybe the Kama Sutra?

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kittenpantzen@reddit

No. My parents had the Joy of Sex with photos. Found it nosing through their room when I was five or six and was very confused.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

"Johnson, look at these polling numbers. 82% of swingers aren't licking one another's hairy pits! Did you illustrate like I asked? Are you sure? Well our audience is too fucking dense to interpret your impressionistic scribbles. We need to go nuclear. Full on photos. Book the studio tomorrow and beging casting. My God, we are going to get these coked up key party nutsos licking pits, or I'm not Walter Sinclair of Sinclair Publishing House."

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UnhappyToNiceToSay@reddit

Just newer edition.

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

It didn’t look particularly well-used to me. /s

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FiveCrappedPee@reddit

Same here. It was just casually chilling on the bookshelf in the TV room. My parents were vulgar as fuck and gave zero shits. I miss them everyday.

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squanchmysquanchhole@reddit

Holy shit, did all of our parents have this book?! I had no idea this was one of those weird generational things. In any case, YES, absolutely scarred, especially since I’m one of eight kids, so I already know just how much they…enjoyed…it (shudders)

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Ok_Bird_9745@reddit

I was traumatized when I found my uncles little Kama Sutra book in his bedroom. I learned to quit snooping in this room. 😂

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L31121@reddit

Yes! If there was only an 800 number to call and claim compensation ☎️

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MissMelines@reddit

I found um, other things, and once I realized what some of them were years later - nah, I was rooting them on. Some things, hell yeah wish I didn’t find and needed to block out but overall, happy for them 🤣😎 Learned a lot too!

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thrwaway856642@reddit

This book started my (F) fantasies for oral sex.

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supersoprano1@reddit

No but I encountered the Christian religious version called “Intended for Pleasure” on my piano teacher’s bookshelf while waiting for my brother’s lesson and was horrified 😭

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sok283@reddit

I'm pretty sure my dad left it intentionally in the basement. I still remember the woman's glorious armpit hair.

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EasyStatistician8694@reddit

Oh, if only. I didn’t learn much besides the basics from my parents. Honestly, I got a better start on romantic sensuality from the 1960s Addams Family reruns, if that tells you anything. The few times I’ve tried to ask my mom about things were so painfully awkward that I’ll never do it again.

My parents are so lacking in romance that they don’t even seem to get the point of a date anymore. They just celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary… by taking the grandkids out to a movie.

I’ve been married 24 years. My spouse and I still get excited about time together. I hope it stays that way.

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ccx941@reddit

This one would have scared and scarred me more.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

My one friend had a bookshelf in his room where his parents kept their extra books...old college textbooks, car repair manuals, and that. We found it one night at a sleepover and got quite the education. It disappeared after that.

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XaoticOrder@reddit

I still have my parents copy. I'm not sure if that means we had a healthy or unhealthy relationship.

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RoiVampire@reddit

I found this at Waldenbooks and it was whatever the opposite of scarring is. I can’t even remember what section it was in but I remember grabbing it and then putting it into the middle of a huge photography book so I could look at it on the sly.

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bunnybuddy@reddit

I probably would have been fine if I discovered it in my parents' bedroom, but instead I found it on my grandparents' main bookshelf in their living room.

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jbt55@reddit

Yep, pretty sure we had two different copies. When I was real young it was on the stacks of PBs. When we moved it was on the tippy top of the book shelf.

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Prestigious_Waltz_36@reddit

Oh we had the pentagram

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Zeke688@reddit

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

That, my friend, is a pentagon.

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FruitMustache@reddit

I wish i only found a book.

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Brzy85@reddit

My BFF and I still shudder thinking about.... The Big Toe. Disgusting!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

def blocked the weird 70s pencil drawings out

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drawredraw@reddit

The only thing I remember is the hairy armpits and something about armpits as an erogenous zone lmao! That part I do not agree with, but the rest was pretty cool for a 12 year old boy.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Bedroom? This was in our living room. Knowledge was celebrated in our home.

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Lunasal11@reddit

Yep. 🤦🏻‍♀️💯💯

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ferminriii@reddit

Yeah, did they get issued this book or something? I found it on my friend's house too.

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Graywulff@reddit

Parents shelf, looked through it with a friend in like 3rd or 4th grade.

We really didn’t know…

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pnw__halfwatt@reddit

My dad had a lot of Hustler magazines he tried to “hide”. This book is nothing.

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dallyan@reddit (OP)

I was scandalized by the pics. It was the first time I had seen nude pics. Though I always wondered why we saw full nudity on the woman and not the man. Budding little feminist I was.

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Lones0meCrowdedEast@reddit

Pennies have always been the most "explicit" body part, I never understood why. I think it's a combination of the innate power/fear they're capable of carrying and instilling, combined with the innate shame most men have about the size of theirs and what is and isn't "normal/average/enough".

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That1Master@reddit

I'm sorry but just no. I'm going to get downvoted for this but the female body is just plain sexy. Even women can acknowledge a sexy woman easily. The male body is kind of awkward and not sexy. Turned on or off, we can also be not sexy. That doesn't make one inherently shameful.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

I don't know. Have you not seenthe Bad Bunny Calvin Klein video?

That is a beautiful male body. Yes, we don't see his penis, but I would sure like to.

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IkidIgoat@reddit

This is just culture, not attraction.

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MrVeazey@reddit

"It's like a Jeep," to paraphrase an episode of Seinfeld.

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IkidIgoat@reddit

Written by people not attracted to men, one would think.

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Lones0meCrowdedEast@reddit

Uh, ok? I'm not even sure how this is a response to what I said; I didn't say men were sexier than women, I said penises are percieved as more explicit, as in offensive. More importantly, you should do yourself (and everyone else) a favor, and always be aware that your feelings/tastes/perspectives are not universal. I don't agree with your statement at all, I (and many others) find men's bodies extremely sexy.

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

Yeah, the assumption that that a woman's vulva is somehow "inside" and not explicit? Weird.

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EBMille4@reddit

I salute Larry Flynt

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Evakron@reddit

Scarred? No. Enlightened, yes.

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FractalClock@reddit

Better that than Screw Magazine

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AppropriateDream2903@reddit

My mom had it in her nightstand drawer. I was shocked by how hairy they were. I’d already found the Spice channel on the black box by then, so this was just another layer. I don’t think it affected me too much.

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Annahsbananas@reddit

Oh me for sure. Love the pics of the hairy armpits

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

Never heard of it.

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BallsWilliger@reddit

It sure had a way if making sex look unappealing

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Hannibal0341@reddit

Never had anything like that happen thank God

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No_Raisin_250@reddit

Omg I found it and was reading it and put it under my mattress and one day I go and it’s gone. I didn’t ask my mom and she never told me anything, you know because i never got the birds and the bees talk back then like a lot of my friends.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

My mom was very private and pretty repressed, but I guess I can be glad she didn't traumatize me with her nudes and such.

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cacecil1@reddit

Not scarred lol

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grilledstuffed@reddit

I found a copy in my obviously unhappily married parents house about 4 years before they separated. It was so traumatic. Not because of sex so much. But the implication that either they were extremely happy with each other at one point, or were trying to save the marriage by fixing their sex life.

My wife and I are very happily married and also extremely kinky.

Our sex books are way crazier. They’re locked in a foot locker with some other things that we don’t want our children to see, and my best friend has taken the responsibility of immediately taking that trunk to the dump if my wife and I simultaneously pass away.

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Megan3891@reddit

My mom; the librarian who believed in a proper education, whipped this baddie out to give me The Talk™ when I was six headed off to kindergarten, because I was going "to hear all about it anyway". To her credit she wasn't wrong. Those hairy armpit drawings still live rent free in my head 36 years later.

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Scarred? Lol, no. My parents did not have this, but I did find it in the library. Between this, and the back pages of my grandma's Cosmopolitan mags, I did my homework to get into dating.

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The_Goondocks@reddit

Not as much as I was scarred by the Kama Sutra board game and penis-themed neckties

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tgerz@reddit

They didn’t have this book. They did have a hookah and this intricately carved snuff bottle. I thought it was so cool and was really confused why the lid had a tiny spoon when I opened it. I need to get it cleaned up one of these days.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I wish! My Dad thought he was super sneaky and hid hardcore porn around the house in places it was easy to come across by accident. I remember once I had a friend sleep over and we made cookies. Tucked under the cookie cutter tin on top of the cabinets was a super hardcore magazine. It fell down when I lifted the tin and I was so embarrassed. I always dreaded having to dig for paperwork because I knew chances were I would come across something I did not want to imagine my Dad looking at. Considering how much he cheated on my Mom I’m guessing that he was also hiding the stuff from her, hence it being all over the house but in places she probably wouldn’t go through. The cookie cutter spot was really dumb though.

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brainvheart143@reddit

OMG yesssss. Holy shit I think the scars were close to healing so thanks a lot for that reminder friend.

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BirdLawOfficeESQ@reddit

Holy shit. You’ve opened up a very horrendous memory that I stored away in a vault.

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No_Custard_6481@reddit

Yuck. I would avoid their room after finding this. Ugh. Scared me for life. How did people even buy this book? TRAUMATIZED. Now I’m retraumatized by seeing this picture again. Thanks OP.

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KidElliott@reddit

Never came across it; always aimed off to the side to explicitly avoid that.

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Firebolt164@reddit

Lol j had a college girlfriend who's parents had this book in their 70s-era house. I remember sitting down with her and thinking we were going to do every position from every page 😂

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Own-Economy6208@reddit

Sauces and Pickles 😏

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UndoxxableOhioan@reddit

Hey, I found Our Bodies, Ourselves and frequently used it to crank one out.

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CherryCherry5@reddit

No I found Playboy and Playgirl magazines. And another magazine that was smaller. Like Reade's Digest size, but I don't remember what it was called.

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MrVeazey@reddit

Pervert's Digest.

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dandelion-tea-@reddit

Gah! I found it in the kitchen cupboard!

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MeatPopsicle10@reddit

Yes.

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olduglysweater@reddit

It wasn't that, but romance novels and one book— with anatomical diagrams. Also it showed conception and gestation, which was fascinating for a 12 year old me who had no clue about it; especially since sex Ed wasn't comprehensive outside of 'you're bleeding, here's how a maxi pad works, good luck!'

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musashi-swanson@reddit

This is the best sub on Reddit. Deep tracks memories unlocked daily!

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GlitteringHotMess@reddit

HOMG, YES. I found it in a decorative basket of books, next to their bed.....so much hand drawn pubic hair and penises .....ughhhhhhh.....makes me shutter inside, even as an adult who is very sex positive

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Eazy12345678@reddit

everyone has sex. nothing to be scared of

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LibrarianFlaky951@reddit

That didn’t scar me so much as the anal beads and big black dildo.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

It was actually this book that scarred me

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Wild-Sky-4807@reddit

Yes, because my parents had two copies. They each brought one to the marriage.

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lumberj73@reddit

This was given to me as a bridal shower gift by an aunt whom I was not close to.

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

Not this, but my mom had a huge collection of those smut romance novels. I discovered them in the basement and used to try and find the pages with sex scenes. 😂

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Kitchen-Fisherman280@reddit

Yall had some tame parents. My mom had toys and Polaroids that I came across. No Joy of Sex. She also routinely brought dudes home and fucked loudly in the living room. Wouldn't have been an issue but the only bathroom was off the living room. That's when I started pissing out the window lol

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

Not this, but my mom had a huge collection of those smut romance novels. I discovered them in the basement and used to try and find the pages with sex scenes. 😂

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Adventurous_Cloud_20@reddit

I don't know what you all were doing, but we avoided my parents room like the plague. Possibly finding any of their amorous materials was the main reason we stayed away from it.

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ComfortableBedroom76@reddit

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First_Joke_5617@reddit

They were going to make a movie based on the book starring John Belushi. But he died the night he agreed to be in it.

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Le petit mort?

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First_Joke_5617@reddit

Something like that. 🇨🇵

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Broad_Food9658@reddit

I found worse.

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6ynnad@reddit

Omg.

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BusyArachnid8039@reddit

Did we all have the same childhood?

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Puzzled-Bonus-3456@reddit

Didn't need help knowing I'm gay but the version with the pictures weirded me out and struck me as Completely Nasty. I still don't get het sex and I know I'm not supposed to.

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

I wasn’t scarred but it definitely sharpen what I like (and don’t like)

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toooomeeee@reddit

My mom would very obviously carry it around but she is an attention seeking narcissist

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That1Master@reddit

Ugh. That's too much

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The_best_is_yet@reddit

Yikes, I’m sorry dude, I cannot even imagine

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skeptical_hope@reddit

Oh yes. Illustrated body hair and all.

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civilSurvivorMum@reddit

when my parents downsized it somehow ended up in my book collection. It’s now on the highest shelf of the bookcase just like it was when I was growing up. In case my kid wants to be very disappointed after orchestrating a stealth climbing operation.

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americanadvocate702@reddit

It was like a Bible to my buddies mom. I snapped a Polaroid D pic and put it as her bookmark

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

Lmao I found this and their illustrated kama sutra and the sex tape and the dildo that was at least a foot long

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

LOL, no, we did not find that, but we did find a life-like dildo and VHS pornography, I was like 6. Which would you rather have found?

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No_Abroad6533@reddit

I learned a lot about pubic hair from this book

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alvinofdiaspar@reddit

Hair in general. Definitely a 70s production.

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CSweetfever@reddit

Lol, I read this until they start talking about sucking on a woman's underarm hair. I will only date woman that shave.

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Faustus_Fan@reddit

I found that book, along with one of my mother's anatomically-correct toys, while I was helping her move her bedroom furniture. She forgot they were there. I've never been shooed out of her room faster in my life.

She still doesn't know I saw them.

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