Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:09:05 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More S*X, was Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

lee gilliland wrote:

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: More S*X, was Re: Interesting Inventions
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:03:33 -0500
>
> And here I thought it would be safe to hand the McCaffrey stuff over to my
> innocent little girl!
>
> Said little girl asked several months ago how the seed from the daddy got to
> the seed from the mommy and was not content until she had received a fairly
> graphic explanation of intercourse. Maybe McCaffrey's OK after all...
>
> Erica
> ask to see picture of little girl w/McC. at last UK Worldcon
>
> What you need is a copy of a delightful book Called Where Did I Come From,
> which explains sex at precisely her age level.  I'd lend you the one I had,
> but it went to the Brown cousins long ago.  Try to find it - the search will
> be worth it.  If you can't, I'll try to remember what I can of it and write
> it down for you...
>
> Of course, there are disadvantages to telling the kid all, you know.  Like
> parents calling you to demand Exactly What You Thought You Were Doing,
> Teaching Your Kid Stuff Like That At His Age - when, of course, little girl
> has just returned from the playground full of the facts of life.  Some days
> you can't win.

My parents told me The Facts of Life at an early age -- which, since I was
surrounded by farm animals, was only sensible -- and I found my knowledge was
much in demand for playground discussions in 2nd and 3rd grade.

As I recall, my biggest problem at that age was figuring out how a man made "the
seed" come out of his penis rather than urine.  No one had bothered to tell me
about *orgasms*.

--Ted White