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...whole-body rapture found in Mom's arms lasts only through infancy, but children become expert at seeking the same security as they grow older, and good parents have a sixth sense about what the priorities are. A wailing child with a cut knee gets a long hug first, even though it's the bleeding wound that needs attention. In uncounted thousands of such tactile transactions, kids learn to use touch as a means of connection at least as expressive as--and certainly more satisfying than--anything so detached as speech. With the pump thus primed, they are ready...
Perhaps I made things even worse by talking to my mother, who is a family therapist and therefore, I figured, must have great, sensible advice she doles out to struggling clients. I approached the subject gingerly. Mom did not. She apparently has a whole list of things she recommends: a book called 52 Invitations to Grrreat Sex, two Nancy Friday books (My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers), the movies 9 1/2 Weeks and Swept Away, and two "instructional" tapes from the Better Sex video series: Making Sex Fun and Advanced Sexual Techniques. Her final suggestion, "renting pornography or whatever works...
...ordered Mom's recommendations from Amazon, which, upon checkout, asked me if I wanted "to let my friends know about my order." Amazon is as sensitive to my embarrassment as my mother...
...most couples to communicate. But unfortunately, Friday is the wife of my boss's boss, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine. A smarter man would not call her and confess her role in shaping my sexuality. Then again, a smarter man wouldn't have called his mom for sex advice...
...really want--especially because for many women it seems to be eight hours of bathtub back massage as foreplay--but honesty is better than getting to the point where you have to watch that Advanced Sexual Techniques tape. We'd all be a lot better off if my mom just told people that. Especially...