The Birds, The Bees, & All That's in Between

... Special thanks to Shwetha for stirring these memories.

* I used to think the F word was fool; particularly since people kept saying it had four letters. My little brother used to go 'fuck' all the time; so ironically, I thought it was a light to moderate swear word.

* Post Titanic, instead of having a sexual awakening, my friends and I discussed how Kate Winslet is really too old to just run around without at least a slip on. Particularly in front of other people.

* You know in Bollywood how couples roll down hills, flowers go ting-ting, and the doctor says 'Badaai, aap ma banne waale ho?' I ran into a guy while playing basketball and my friends told me I'd get pregnant.

* ... Except I hadn't had a period yet. So they told me I'd just bleed. Because pre-period, you can't get pregnant from baby-making banging into each other. And yes, the bleeding from the baby-making banging would, indeed, be my first period.

* If you say good night to everyone in the house and don't say anything after that, the karma invoked by the wishes would ensure you didn't have nightmares.

* Marriage counselors would give you sex fantasies to play out while they observed and wrote notes.

I'm not going to say anything about the state of sex education in India, I think it speaks for itself.