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In my Sexual Beginning

My curiosity with sex probably began early. If you have children, you are aware of how sexual we are almost right from the beginning. When we are young and we play with ourselves it is seen as "cute" and innocent. As a mother, I have witnessed too many times a mother telling her child that their penis or vulva are anything but that. They called it your "nana, pee pee, trunk, girlfriend, couchie, fire hose, private parts" and the list goes on and on. Why do we tell them that a hand is a hand? That your mouth is your mouth? But we don't want to tell them that their penis is a penis or their vulva is their vulva? This is the beginning of sexual confusion that gets passed down from generation to generation in our families and this is just the beginning. By the time I was 26 I had read every book on sex that I could find. Sex was still a mystery to me and I was no more closer to finding true sexual satisfaction than I was when I began a few years earlier. I...