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Author: Carson In Her Own Words

Southern Sex Ed

"Reading Isadora Duncan and Lady Chatterley Lover was one thing but personal experience was another. When I asked my mother about sex she asked me to come behind the holly tree and said with her sublime simplicity, 'Sex, my darling, takes place where you sit down.' I was therefore forced to read sex text books, which made it seem so very dull, as well as incredible."