
When I started having sex, I didn’t know much about it.
My mother had given me “the talk,” but her version was mostly about birth control and how sex is something two married people do because they love each other.
The other stuff she covered by giving me a book about sex and leaving me to my own devices. I read through it and was just confused.
It described sex as a man putting his penis inside a woman’s vagina and then “they move back and forth.”
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That was supposed to teach me about thrusting, but what I pictured at the time were two people connecting genitals and then shimmying sideways for a while.
Thank heavens I discovered porn and saw what sex really looked like, or my first time having sex could’ve been even more awkward than it was.
The rest of my sexual education consisted of a dog-eared erotic novel I hid in my bedroom and some misinformed comments from other virgins my age.