I remember my (fairly modern, fairly liberal) mother handing this book to my older sister circa 1983 saying “Read this. Then tell your sister”. That, Dallas, & the raunchy bits of the World Book encyclopaedia were the extent of our sex education. We never did manage to pray the hunger away though.
Fair play on the Homosexual definition, nail on the head. Not as bad a book you would think, seems to me Catholic ethos went bananas since then on that subject?
ahjayzis
Yeah fairly bang on.
Marriage way back then was solely between men and women if you’d believe it, so makes sense a gayer wouldn’t be totally on board.
And being shunned by your family cast a shadow over enjoying family life, so that’s accurate too.
All in all fairly honest for a Catholic book!
Zeno
“They are a minority group and many of them…”…straight up position of gay people as ‘other’. No indication that he reader or writer could ever be gay. Subtle nastiness.
ollie
Subtle nastiness? It was 1981 ffs.
Just sayin'
The first page isn’t the worst, given the date and its authors. The only thing I agreed with on the second page was that 15 years olds cannot be given free rein.
If we could only somehow merge modern morality with the proper sense of actually taking responsibility that is implied in the book we might get somewhere.
Murtles
So there was this Bird, right? And then there was this Bee. Are ya with me so far?
tony
Intelligent, sensitive, realistic. Amazing to see the gang on here knee jerk reflex bile stupid.
Mick Flavin
Hidden verse from REM’s “It’s The End Of The World”?
scottser
i bet you use those ‘natural family planning charts’ eh, tony? or has your missis downloaded the pink pad app?
tony
As opposed to the dumb, crass and sneering comments.
scottser
it is of its time tony. and so it seems, are you.
Mikeyfex
Jon Gnarr and Delia Smith? That’s gonna be some conflicted philosophies there.
Lorcan Nagle
someone’s been following the Billings method
edalicious
Apart from the praying and masturbation bits, it all seems relatively okay, actually.
King Thistle
“Right son… I want to talk to you about changes in my mucus” – “great mum I’m all ears”
scottser
can we put it on the chart, mum?
TG
Apparently there’s a new 2015 anti-Catholic booklet on How to Talk to Your Child About Sex. It’s only go one page that says: “Do it in the road.”
Joxer
stabdard catholic dogma that is as relevant today as it was then to the Catholics….. poisonous aul guff all the same but sure thats par for the course with that lot.
Sex is bad and should only be used for making babies.
What a shower of kill joys.
*published May 2013
It’s enough to make one want to bash the Bishop !
I remember my (fairly modern, fairly liberal) mother handing this book to my older sister circa 1983 saying “Read this. Then tell your sister”. That, Dallas, & the raunchy bits of the World Book encyclopaedia were the extent of our sex education. We never did manage to pray the hunger away though.
My sex ed….
Mum: “Clamp, you now how the, eh, you know how babies are made?”
Me: “Yep”
Mum: “Ah, grand so”
THE END
I imagine it more like this..:
Mum: “Clamp, you now how the, eh, you know how babies are made?”
Me: “Yep, it’s when Mani uses your other hole”
Mum: “Ah, grand so”
THE END
Heh :)
Tis no
Ta Una gan a gúna
It must be said
C’mere Garth
How much did you pay for it?
Fair play on the Homosexual definition, nail on the head. Not as bad a book you would think, seems to me Catholic ethos went bananas since then on that subject?
Yeah fairly bang on.
Marriage way back then was solely between men and women if you’d believe it, so makes sense a gayer wouldn’t be totally on board.
And being shunned by your family cast a shadow over enjoying family life, so that’s accurate too.
All in all fairly honest for a Catholic book!
“They are a minority group and many of them…”…straight up position of gay people as ‘other’. No indication that he reader or writer could ever be gay. Subtle nastiness.
Subtle nastiness? It was 1981 ffs.
The first page isn’t the worst, given the date and its authors. The only thing I agreed with on the second page was that 15 years olds cannot be given free rein.
If we could only somehow merge modern morality with the proper sense of actually taking responsibility that is implied in the book we might get somewhere.
So there was this Bird, right? And then there was this Bee. Are ya with me so far?
Intelligent, sensitive, realistic. Amazing to see the gang on here knee jerk reflex bile stupid.
Hidden verse from REM’s “It’s The End Of The World”?
i bet you use those ‘natural family planning charts’ eh, tony? or has your missis downloaded the pink pad app?
As opposed to the dumb, crass and sneering comments.
it is of its time tony. and so it seems, are you.
Jon Gnarr and Delia Smith? That’s gonna be some conflicted philosophies there.
someone’s been following the Billings method
Apart from the praying and masturbation bits, it all seems relatively okay, actually.
“Right son… I want to talk to you about changes in my mucus” – “great mum I’m all ears”
can we put it on the chart, mum?
Apparently there’s a new 2015 anti-Catholic booklet on How to Talk to Your Child About Sex. It’s only go one page that says: “Do it in the road.”
stabdard catholic dogma that is as relevant today as it was then to the Catholics….. poisonous aul guff all the same but sure thats par for the course with that lot.