... I don't recall reading any of it.

No. Really. It was the thinking man's porn in my dad's time.

It was one of those paperback harlequin novels which had quite a few methods of referencing the rooster.

That'll make you 13

I started posting here on DU when I was only 9 years old.

you do have fake ID so you can vote?

My driver's license picture does not resemble me in the slightest.

I just took it off my mother's shelf.

If not "The Carpetbaggers" then one of his other frothy soft pornos. Funny, I met the man about 15 years ago, when he was a passenger on one of my flights to Palm Springs. We're taught at the airlines to keep at professional rapport with famous people, but I saw the name on his ticket and burst out: "I read your books when I was 12. You gave me a lot of practical knowledge!". He was in a wheelchair and he almost fell out of it laughing. His wife dryly replied: "He gets that a lot."

I think I found that one in 9th grade. I still have the book

I'm a bit of a lit snob, but I think that Robbins is criminally underrated.

Must have been 9th grade. Let me tell you, it gave me something to contemplate for YEARS.

I found a "Gor" book when I was in middle school for sale in the Public Library.

Way too young. But there was boobies on the cover, so yeah...

Both of which I bought myself in the local drugstore when I was about 10. There were some pretty racy parts in them which I didn't understand one bit at the time. I wanted to read the parts about 007 saving the world from SPECTRE.

I am still waiting for something like that to happen.

Unfortunately, all the UPS deliverers are male

Probably a bad place for a young man to start the dirty book experience. It creates "ahem" a very high standard to measure up to.

Kyped it from my mother's drawer. I don't know how old I was, but I must've been pretty young; she died when I was eleven.

It was written by Jacquelinn Susann who was famous for writing 'Valley of the Dolls'. That was pretty racy too.

I think I was a teenage when I read it. But of course, it is tame by today's standards.

The rest is history

I thought Petals in the Wind was definately much better.

That was mine too.. I remember reading it while having a break in one of the dressing rooms at a theatre when I was an apprentice.. I was probably about 15 yrs old.. and I recall that an older actor, actually a sort of mentor, stopped in and watched me read it for a while - of course I assumed he did not know what the book was about, but in later reflection, I am positive he did

I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone ....

I guess the closest I have come was when I was 15, someone gave me a copy of a Playboy. Honestly, the chick who was the playmate centerfold was kind of nasty ugly naked, from what I recall, and was doing "unnatural things" on a motorcycle. So not really my cup of tea.

Pretty, not partcularly natural, staged shots without any hint of sexual activity.

Btw, how old are you now, and should we be having this conversation?

I turned 47 last week. Where did the time go?

Edited to add -- you're right, your comment brought back a memory. It wasn't Playboy, it was a copy of Penthouse magazine.

Honestly, the first and last porno magazine I ever looked at. I think it's very degrading to women.

I never could figure out what I thought about Playboy but the others I agree with you. I'm just not in that culture these days.

I was around 15.

"Candy"

The story of a girl and her daddy fixation.

One of my friends found it, and we passed it around disguised by the cover ripped off of a paperback copy of "Light In The Forest" by Conrad Richter.

very short autobiography by Elizabeth Ray (ghost written I'm sure) "secretary" for Rep. Wayne Hays

Why? I don't know.

[img][/img] It was truly interesting reading for a 10 year old.

It was in my Mom's closet. On her bookshelf she had several books by Judith Krantz (Scruples, Princess Daisy), Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon (Rage of Angels) that were pretty racy.

I still remember the made for tv movie Rage of Angels with Jaclyn Smith and Armand Assante--it was good.

Now it seems pretty tame by current standards.
But it was really steamy back in the day.
I think author Grace Metalious had to move away from her home town which some said the book was based on.
It was made into a movie and a TV series.

I can't remember where I got it, but I was hiding under the covers reading it when my mom caught me! LOL

Scandalous!

That book is HAWT.

In support of their policy recommendations on porn, the Meese Commission (Attorney General Edwin Meese) looked at a ton of porn, and Vol. 2 provides detailed descriptions of everything they looked at and read.

It's like the script for "porn movies narrated for the blind."

My cousins came from southern Virginia to visit us in Delaware. One was a year older than me, the other was 2 years older. One of them brought the book, which we read at night by flashlight. My mother would have died if she knew.

in 9th grade. I really thought I was "all that" for reading a book that made my English teacher's eyes pop out of his head when I answered the "what are you reading these days" question. I can't remember much about it though.

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... I found his old microscope WAY up high WAY in the back of his closet. I couldn't see anything
through it, so I took it apart. Rolled up in the barrel, I found a cartoon depicting many sizes, shapes
and conditions of womens' breasts with accompanying "nicknames". It's apparently well-known (I've
seen it on the Intertubes) and came from the 1930's-1940's era of 8-page porn comics starring folks
like Popeye & Olive Oyl, Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood and the like.
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The illustrations are silly and pretty lame, but to an EXTREMELY innocent and ignorant smalltown
Midwestern boy at the brink of adolescence... let's just say they were very, very. very, very, OMG,
OMG, OMG... ... ... ... ... ... mo...ti...va...tion...al!!!!!!!!!!
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This link is NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Years ago I was in an antique shop buying a birthday gift for my wife (that's the reason I was there without her) and the proprietor decided I looked like the sort of fellow who'd be interested in what he had behind the counter.

That was the first time I'd ever heard of them. And sure enough, a few years later, they're all over the internet...

These are great! And not just for the pornishness, but for the look into the times.

No, really, I swear.

Veronica and Betty never looked so good...

"Forever" maybe. But I can't remember.

And no, I didn't read the articles.

so my friends & I - all females - always oohed & aahed over those. Later on, "The Sensual Woman" was in my mom's room, & OF COURSE at the age of 12 I had to peruse that literary marvel. "The Carpetbaggers" - oh yeah. "Happy Hooker", "Lady Chatterly's Lover" - yep.

Sooo many since then!!

By Erskine Caldwell.
That was the big shocking book of it's day and so all the kids wanted to get their hands on it.
And it was actually pretty good literature.

I finally saw it in the last couple of months. Made in 1958 it was apparently pretty scandalous at the time and stared a pretty good looking Tina Louise (Ginger on Gilligan's Island) but now wouldn't raise eyebrows on regular TV.

But I think I will go to netflix and see if it is there...I loved the book.

off and on for a month or so now. It's dated but I was pleasantly surprised.

I read all of them.
During the first decade of his career, he was an incredible writer. Wm. Faulkner owes him a great debt.

I know I wanted to read it to learn about sex but the story grabbed me and pulled me in.
The sex was just a trick that way.

he became "too successful" (his books were massive sellers in the then new paperback market)
he wrote himself out
he drank his talent away
his work suffered when he started writing more about the southern landed gentry
critics and academics were more comfortable with Faulkner, Welty, Tate, etc...
I don't know...
but his early novels and short stories are some of the finest writing ever produced.

I moved on from there to science fiction and I don't think I read any of his later books.
Probably just as well because it is sad to see the decline of a talent.

holy...shit.

That was an eye opener at 12-14 whatever I was.

lol

My dad asked me to get something out of his closet and it fell off the top shelf. First thing I thought was, "I'm getting back to this when the parents aren't in the house." I just about passed out when I opened it back up. Till then, I'd been making do with the underwear section of the J.C. Penney catalog. LOL

But I won't because my mom had a much weirder childhood. She gifted me a childhood less weird.

My mom was hanging out with people like Sally Rand when she was a little kid. During the Second World War prostitutes and party girls kept her out of trouble while her parents worked in the shipyards as welders. They taught her not to be a prostitute or party girl. She went to trade school and got a good job in Hollywood.

So my mom knew all about sex before it interested her in any way and that's the way she raised us. There were no surprises.

Furthermore, my dad's an artist. He draws naked people, including my mom. We had naked art in our house. Add to that my mom's propensity to nurse a hungry child anytime, anywhere, whip-it-out, and in the hot summer with no air conditioning why even bother buttoning a blouse, and you can see why some of the neighborhood kids were not allowed to visit our house.

I used to make a lot of noise whenever I came home with friends after school to give everyone fair warning to cover up. If I was lucky, they did. One of my younger siblings had a naked-great-grandma encounter I'm glad I missed. I've never determined if this was Scandinavian cultural casual nudity, or just plain crazy. Probably crazy.

I learned to read when I was four, long before I talked much. I read the entire Bible and the Childcraft Encyclopedia when I was seven. I was a twisted little kid with a weird family.

My dad's parents were a little more conventional. The first "dirty" book I remember buying was at the airport in Sacramento. My dad said, "don't show that to Grandma." 99% of it was fine science fiction short stories, with only a few instances of sexual intercourse and one blowjob. If I saw it again I'd recognize it. I didn't care about the sex at the time, the spacecraft were much more exciting.

The first time I grokked anything unusual about my upbringing was my friend's reaction to a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves my mom had left about.

That would have been 1971.

Yeah, I was interested in girls then, but that book did NOTHING for me.

That was a long time ago.

It was actually given to me by a girl as an icebreaker before she dumped me. Don't worry, the book was more enjoyable than the relationship.

One written by Ian Fleming.

So there was the Forum, of course. Funny thing, I also actually read the articles. I distintly remember a few articles in particular the interview with one of the hookers that got involved with Swaggert and seeing some of the things he tried to convince her to do There was some other articles there that also pretty well much cemented my notions about the Christian Right. Also liked perusing the dirty jokes page after *ahem* "looking" at the pictorals. I think the guy who did those eventually went on to work for Howard Stern, IIRC.

But as for my first dirty "book" I'd have to go with the time I was digging through the old man's book collection one hot summer day while he was at work. I must have been 11 or 12. That fateful day, I managed to uncover his recently purchased copy of Miriam Stoppard's The Magic of Sex. Talk about an education.

They were something like True Romance type of magzines with sex invloved.

The only story I can really remember was called My Ten Year Old is Going to have a Baby and doesn' know it.

The thing was I was 9 or 10 years old when I read it.

This magazine belong to a friend's mother and we sort of borrowed it to read.

After reading this magazine we would borrow the new magazine every month.

We couldn't wait, and would sneak the magazine out of the house.

Secret spies didn't have anything on us.

We thought the stories were real.

My Aunt had her text books from nursing school with naked pictures of people.

No one ever caught us sneaking that book out either.

That would be the first naughty book which I have read.
Required reading freshman year, just not the particular edition I accidentally bought at the University book store.

cover, but don't recall any of the content. I just remember feeling very sneaky looking at it.

The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and there was one called Forbidden Fruit (I really did'nt understand it at the time) -- don't remember the author. Does Forever Amber count as naughty? I named one of my dogs Amber after the heroine.

way too young to be reading this crap. it was a novel titled "Dando Shaft!" can't remember who wrote it. i don't even think i was 10 years old yet. i love my parents and i know they loved me, but when i was growing up they really did not step up when it came to providing decent reading material for their bookworm of a daughter. as a result i read whatever i got my hands on.

scrolling through the thread i read at least 50 to 75% of ALL of them. almost all before the age of 15. it's a miracle i'm not more screwed up than i am.

Pretty much a tame book -

But when I was just turning 8 I read Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon.

I was 15 when I read it.

I was thinking of the same book!