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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Is being afraid of being tainted by the touch of another male or another female a learned reaction?
Consider how many boys and how many girls mess around together with the same or opposite sex in childhood and discover, suddenly, that genital exploration is taboo, and being fondled by a member of any sex, let alone the same sex is a punishable offence.
When I was eight and it was summer, my friend David and I were happily stripping off in my paddling pool in the back garden. It was hot, sunny and healthy. Mothers appeared telling us to cover up immediately, and to get dressed and stop playing. We weren't even looking, let alone touching.
Why is the naked body so appalling? Why must we not be naked? And why must we not enjoy touch?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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