Hubby and I were talking the other night about how there were rooms in our home that still have yet to be "christened". Then, we talked about all the unusual places we've made love. Sadly, there weren't many. So, we've been talking about being more adventurous in our sexual endeavors. This may prove difficult with two small children but, I'm willing to try if he is.
This made me think about all the ways people enjoy pleasure and the almost surreal levels people will go to, to obtain it in strange and unique ways. When I was about fourteen or fifteen, I started mail ordering items...specifically jewelry from a place called Merlite. They have a website now (or at least, they did), but back then, they mailed a catalog to my home that I would peruse for hours...finally deciding on some fabulous piece of costume jewelry to order.
If you're old enough to remember ordering through the mail, then you must remember those pesky mailing lists companies would add you to just as soon as they saw the traffic of purchases with your address and name. I ended up on all sorts of lists. From catalogs that sold pet supplies to others that sold make-up and clothing. One day, I got a catalog covered in brown paper. My fifteen year old butt was about to be exposed to porn.
And it didn't stop with that one. I had catalogs that sold "equipment" for your home, others that could tailor your wedding in latex and still others that dealt in freak porn. Yikes! My favorite was the men's underwear catalog where all the guys were...well, extremely well equipped. My girlfriends and I got a kick out of that one. God bless the person who thought it a great idea to market underwear with a model getting drenched by a waterfall. Sheer poetry!
Now that I live in the state of prudeness, no such catalogs are sent to my home anymore. With the talk of experimentation, I wondered if such catalogs are still mailed to people or if you just hop on the Internet now and choose your kinky site of choice. I'm honestly not looking, just curious about the state of things in that area now. Do people still swing from their ceilings and have latex weddings? It's
I usually checked the mail, but I wonder if my parents ever questioned why I got all that stuff. I can remember that they would put the mail on my bed and there would possibly be a catalog or two in the mix. I was and still am a "good" girl, so I guess they didn't worry about it too much. If the same were to happen to my own daughter, I'm not sure how I'd react. The mediums are different. She wouldn't be exposed by catalog and we have parental control on our computer. I suppose someone could potentially show her something at school someday. Wow. She's already so curious and wanting to question everything. I think I'm free associating more than anything today...just the random stuff on my mind.
2 comments:
I'm sure your girls will do the same sorts of things their mum got up to- but hey; we all worked out okay in the end- and I'm sure your daughter's will make the right decisions based on the 'life-coaching' you give them based on your own experiences. That's all as parents I think we can do.
Good luck with the experimentation tho!
Random fact for the day...
If I was a boy I was going to be called Peter.
I hope so. :)
If a boy, I probably would hav been named after my dad; however, if my dad had named me instead of my mom, I would have been a Robin.
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