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In reply to the discussion: CONFESS!!! First 'naughty' book you ever read [View all]nolabear
(41,915 posts)8. I actually found a copy of The Story of O in a ditch while walking home from school.
Must have been 9th grade. Let me tell you, it gave me something to contemplate for YEARS.
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I actually found a copy of The Story of O in a ditch while walking home from school.
nolabear
Jul 2012
#8
Me too. Think I was 9 or 10 when I read it. Had to have a dictionary handy.
sinkingfeeling
Jul 2012
#30
In my day, it was "The Exorcist" and "The Godfather" passed around with the "good" parts dog-eared.
Tom Ripley
Jul 2012
#85
I inherited MiddleFingerMomTom's bedroom when he went off to college and one day...
MiddleFingerMom
Jul 2012
#46
When I was a kid, my parents had all the Caldwell paperbacks with the lurid covers
Tom Ripley
Jul 2012
#74
Of course, I knew where both the old man and my older brother kept their stashes of Penthouse...
TheMightyFavog
Jul 2012
#64
Going to date myself here, but I believe it was called Candy. I can see the pink and white striped
likesmountains 52
Jul 2012
#73
If we're talking books (vs. magazines) it must have been one by Blakely St. James
deutsey
Jul 2012
#90