"Do As I Say, Not As I Do."

I don't know the origin of that quote, but my father used to say it from time to time. I don't think he really believed it, though, I think he used it as a sarcastic joke. Be that as it may, that quote pretty well sums up what most adults told us about sex in the 50s. I don't know what they really did in their own lives because adults didn't like to talk about sex at all in front of the children. The boys talked about it a lot among themselves, but not in front of the girls. All I ever heard the girls say was that you shouldn't do it until you're married. I have no idea what they said to each other when the boys weren't around. Looking back on it now, I think we may have gone too far with our sexual revolution in the 60s, but we had to do something, what they had in the 50s was totally unacceptable.

Like I said, I didn't find the Bible to be much help. There are passages in there that seem to confirm what the adults and the girls were telling us, but only if you quote them out of context. If you read the whole thing, there are lots of examples of people doing it all kinds of ways, and some of them weren't very nice. Like I also said, the Biblical concept of marriage was substantially different than it is in contemporary American culture. It seems like it would be a lot easier to wait until you're married when you could look forward to being married at the age of 12. Well that was the girls, I think the guys had to wait until they could come up enough livestock to purchase a wife, with enough left over to maintain her in the manner to which she was accustomed.

I used to read a lot in those days: books, magazines, newspapers, cereal boxes, whatever I found lying around. Anytime I came across something about sex, I paid special attention to it because I was interested. Then there were the movies and TV shows. They were full of sexual innuendo, although it was much more subtle in those days, so you really had to pay attention. By the time I first got my hot little hands on a copy of Playboy, my mind was already made up, but it was nice to see that somebody else agreed with me. It wasn't just the pictures either, I read it cover to cover, every single word of it. I didn't agree with all of it, but I read all of it just to broaden my perspective.

I was just kidding about wishing I had pursued money instead of sex. I ended up with plenty of money anyway without hardly trying. I only wish the sex had come so easily.

Speaking of sex, you know those two goofy congress persons who are involved in that big sex scandal? Well, it turns out that the guy tried to weasel out of it by claiming he was gay. Apparently it's more socially acceptable these days to be gay than to be adulterous. And you say that they haven't taken over the country!